The Latest Breaking News from Pollution

The rate of human-produced light is increasing in the night sky by as much as 10% per year, making it difficult for astronomers to study the night sky.

Ghana is stepping up efforts to move households away from firewood and charcoal, which are still used in 78 percent of homes and contribute to deforestation, indoor air pollution and carbon emissions. The government is promoting cleaner cookstoves as a safer, more efficient alternative.

Environmental NGOs are raising concerns about the growing presence of petrochemical industry lobbyists at talks to forge a global treaty to combat plastic pollution.

Campaigners warn of ‘crisis of credibility’ as number of lobbyists attending plastics treaty negotiations rises

Social media post led to discovery that samplers measuring toxic particles in air can also detect fragments of DNA

Simon Bernard's private war on plastic pollution began in 2016. "The real solution to plastic pollution is to avoid using it," he said.

Senedd member demands Welsh Water invest in infrastructure after sewage leaked on to West Shore beach

Wildfire smoke appears to be more harmful than other types of air pollution when it comes to our health.

Negotiations aimed at forging a global treaty on plastic pollution are being blocked by oil-producing countries and getting bogged down in a "dialogue of the deaf", sources in and around the talks told AFP. Ten days of talks on finalising an international, legally-binding instrument on plastic pollution opened on Tuesday…