The Latest Breaking News from Pollution

Forty years after a predominantly Black community in Warren County, North Carolina, rallied against hosting a hazardous waste landfill, President Joe Biden’s top environment official has returned to what is widely considered the birthplace of the environmental justice movement to unveil a national office that will distribute $3 billion in…

Campaigners have claimed the plans "won’t help reduce pollution" or bring in more shoppers

Abnormalities in brain structure have been linked to depression and anxiety

A French television documentary has revealed that tap water in at least one quarter of French urban areas is below the health standards set by the government's water quality agency. Pollution by pesticides is the main problem.

Open water swimmers have slammed the release of sewage and pollution into coastlines around the UK as well as apps used to give advice to bathers amid a summer of issues

During the past decade, a growing body of research has shown that air pollution harms older adults’ brains, contributing to cognitive decline and dementia. What hasn’t been clear is whether improving air quality would benefit brain health.

Research from Rotterdam found those who grew up around busy roads had abnormal white matter

Should schools and vulnerable communities be protected from health hazards associated with warehouses?

Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt has vowed to improve the water quality of Hua Lamphong canal due to pollution concerns.

LOS ANGELES — As the old saying goes, many hands can make light work. They can also work together to make light vanish.

LOS ANGELES — In 2014, Los Angeles cut its annual carbon emissions by 43% and saved $9 million in energy costs by replacing the bulbs in more than half of the city's street lamps with light-emitting diodes.