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Pollution, poverty and power: the real cost of environmental inequality in the UK

Environmental deaths in the UK are primarily attributed to air pollution, which the Royal College of Physicians estimates contributed to around 30,000 deaths in 2025, costing the economy billions each year. Other environmental risks include climate-related events such as extreme heat, which could cause tens of thousands of deaths annually,…

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My father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, died fighting for a clean Nigeria. Thirty years on, it’s time to stop sucking on the dirty teat of the oil cash cow

In 1995, as one of the Ogoni Nine, he was hanged after protesting against Shell’s oil pollution. With education and a move towards renewable energy, we can honour his legacy

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Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex

Resulting pollution on Camber Sands beach poses threat to wildlife including dolphins and seals

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Police crack down as hundreds protest against Delhi’s toxic air

Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi accuses Narendra Modi government of treating citizens like criminals for demanding clean air

The Independent UK

Air pollution levels surge in India's capital, sparking rare protests

A thick layer of smog has enveloped India’s capital, New Delhi, as pollution levels surge, worsening a public health crisis

The Independent UK

Camber Sands Disaster: How Tiny Plastic Beads Sparked a Major Ecological Scare Along Britain's Coast

Thousands of small plastic pellets, or biobeads, have washed up at Camber Sands in East Sussex, prompting authorities to investigate the source and begin a secured cleanup operation.

International Business Times UK

When polluters don’t pay: still no cleanup at South African oil refinery that’s caused millions in damage but was sold for 6 cents

When BP and Shell sold the South African Petroleum Refinery (Sapref) in 2024 to the Central Energy Fund, a government entity, for R1 (or six US cents), environmental advocates warned that Sapref had not taken any steps to clean up pollution. Neither had it made reparations for harm inflicted on…

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Mercury treaty summit criticized for inaction on gold mining crisis

A global mercury summit in Geneva has faced criticism from environmental and Indigenous groups for failing to act on mercury use in small-scale gold mining, the world’s top source of mercury pollution and a growing threat to the Amazon

The Independent UK

Huge amounts of plastic waste goes unnoticed – here’s what to do about it

Every week, the average UK household throws away dozens of pieces of plastic packaging. When people actually start counting them, they’re often shocked to discover just how much there is. And unfortunately, most of this plastic cannot be reused, refilled or recycled.

The Conversation

‘Not everyone can afford air purifiers’: Delhi protest seeks answers on air crisis

As toxic air continued to blanket Delhi-NCR, activists gathered at Jantar Mantar to protest the governments’ continued failure to confront the crisis.

Newslaundry

As global climate action threatens to stall, can Australia step up at COP30 in Brazil?

Ten years on from the landmark Paris Agreement, countries have taken big strides in limiting emissions and the clean energy transition is accelerating rapidly. But geopolitical headwinds are growing and the damage bill for climate pollution is rising. Climate action hangs in the balance.

The Conversation

Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’

Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated

The Guardian - UK

Delhi’s double whammy: Air getting toxic, AQI data under cloud

While Delhi’s air gets worse, questions have emerged around the credibility of the air quality index data in the national capital. Many feel unsure about which government app or website to rely on for accurate information about the air they breathe.

Newslaundry

Thames Water among six water firms to have bonuses for top bosses blocked

More than £4 million of potential bonuses were banned under new rules on performance-related executive pay, regulator Ofwat said.

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Low-income areas in England and Wales face worst air pollution, analysis finds

Exclusive: Experts say impact on people of colour and those who do not drive is ‘grave environmental injustice’

The Independent UK

Air pollution in Amazon rainforest worse than big cities like London and Beijing, new data shows

The cause of the pollution is largely fires set by humans to clear forest for cattle and pasturelands, according to the peer-reviewed findings

Reason

William Barr Discovers the Economics of Tort Law (and Misrepresents the Law Governing Interstate Pollution)

Another reply to the former attorney general on climate litigation that may end up in the Supreme Court.

The Independent UK

India’s capital to suffer ‘severe’ pollution this week

Delhi is world’s most polluted capital city

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Nov 3, 2025: There is no AQI data for the heart of the capital

Delhi is once again covered in smog. But in the city’s heart Connaught Place, the digital air quality display at Central Park faced glitches while the Central Pollution Control Board’s website showed no AQI data was available.

The Guardian - UK

Drinking Water Inspectorate ordered action over ‘forever chemicals’ risk

Analysis finds regulator for England and Wales raised issues with untreated water at facilities serving millions

Newslaundry

Watch: Delhi needs a permanent solution to pollution. Cloud seeding isn’t it

With three failed trials and lakhs of money spent, Delhi’s cloud seeding efforts have all been in vain – this despite the government working with IIT Kanpur in the experiment to tackle the national capital’s toxic air. IIT Kanpur’s director later said the cloud seeding didn’t yield results – or any…

Newslaundry

‘Complete waste of money’: IMD’s former Director General on Delhi’s cloud seeding plans

Ever since the Delhi government launched its ‘cloud seeding’ plan, everyone’s been asking the same question – does it even work? The answer to this question becomes even more urgent after three trials, zero rainfall and the spending of lakhs in the national capital.

The Independent UK

Researchers say this is what Americans fear the most

A hint: It’s not spiders

LiveScience

Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn

California-based startup Reflect Orbital aims to build a swarm of 4,000 giant mirrors in low Earth orbit to "sell sunlight" to customers at night. Experts warn that the mirrors could mess with telescopes, blind stargazers and impact the environment.

Euronews

EU countries split over polluting credits for European industry in Green Deal pusback

Negotiations for pollution credits in 2040 climate neutrality goal could further water down the EU’s Green Deal in favor of European industry. A formal decision by environment ministers is due November 4.

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