The Latest Breaking News from Pollution

NASCAR racing in downtown Chicago the last thing the city needs

These races would steer our city in exactly the wrong direction environmentally because they cause an obscene amount of pollution.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 10, 2022

IIT-Kanpur to establish network of air-quality sensors to measure pollution in rural India

Three-year pilot project could pave the way for a national network of air quality sensors in rural India

The Hindu · Jul 10, 2022

Anger simmers for Dutch farmers who oppose pollution cuts

Dutch farmers are embroiled in a summer of discontent that shows no sign of abating

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2022

Microplastic pollution knows no bounds

Palau, a remote Pacific country with a population smaller than most US towns, is rife with microplastic pollution

Salon · Jul 9, 2022

Explained | The background of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on limiting the Environmental Protection Agency

The U.S. Supreme Court limited how the anti-pollution law can be used to control carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by a 6-3 majority.

The Hindu · Jul 9, 2022

US cruise ships using Canada as a ‘toilet bowl’ for polluted waste

Lax Canadian regulations create ‘perverse incentive’ for US cruise ships en route to Alaska to discharge toxic mix of chemicals and wastewater off British Columbia, report says

The Guardian - UK · Jul 9, 2022

UN report says climate change might be pushing more than a million species into extinction, calls for First Nations intervention

Climate change, pollution and deforestation are pushing a million species towards extinction. Here's what we can do to help.

ABC News · Jul 9, 2022

‘The sea is more blue’: Gazans head to the beach after sewage cleanup

Internationally funded treatment plants have reduced sea pollution in Gaza to lowest level in years

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2022

Ghaziabad: 4 hospitals release untreated water into rivers, told to pay Rs 63 lakh

GHAZIABAD: The UP pollution control, on the directions of the National Green Tribunal, has fined four hospitals in the city Rs 63.3 lakh as compensation for illegally discharging untreated biomedical waste and sewage into rivers, officials said on Thursday.

The Times of India · Jul 8, 2022

What activated charcoal does to your skin

Life in the modern-day world is quite different from the one our previous generations experienced. While rapid advancements in technology has powered globalization urbanization at a frenetic pace, it has also brought along some not-so-great elements incl. global warming, ever-increasing pollution levels in its wake. But sometimes even with the…

The Times of India · Jul 8, 2022