The Latest Breaking News from Pollution

Aussies' latest car choices are driving down pollution

The growing popularity of hybrid and electric cars is helping to reduce Australia's transport emissions but big, old cars are slowing progress.

AAP · Dec 8, 2025

Coca-Cola's Quiet Packaging Shift Abroad Raises Fresh Questions Over 'Greenwashing'

Coca-Cola introduces paper-based packaging in Europe as activists raise concerns over plastic pollution and accuse the company of ongoing greenwashing.

International Business Times UK · Dec 8, 2025

Australia wants to be a critical minerals superpower – but processing is messy and dangerous

In October, Australia signed an A$13 billion rare earths and critical minerals agreement with the United States. This is designed to boost supply of minerals vital to everything from military technology to clean energy.

The Conversation · Dec 8, 2025

Trump says he will repeal Biden-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks

Move marks president’s latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and support for cleaner-running vehicles

The Guardian - US · Dec 3, 2025

Could electric vehicle battery waste fix concrete’s carbon problem?

Imagine waking up in 2040 to unusually quiet streets. By then, an estimated 60% of vehicles worldwide could be electric, cutting air pollution and noise in cities. But the shift to cleaner transport comes with a lesser-known problem – a huge rise in mining waste.

The Conversation · Dec 3, 2025

Trump plans to weaken vehicle mileage rules that limit air pollution

President Donald Trump is expected to announce a proposal to weaken vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry

The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2025

‘We have to live with air pollution’: Delhi’s athletes, parents and coaches feel they have no choice

Sitting in his chair at a cricket ground in West Delhi’s Shakurpur, 73-year-old Shrawan Kumar watches around 50 school-going boys and girls rotate through their drills. The stern but good-humoured coach seems unbothered by the haze settling over the ground. 

Newslaundry · Dec 3, 2025

Delhi police accuse anti-pollution protesters of having Maoist ties as smog crisis continues

Several people were arrested from a protest held at Delhi’s India Gate organised by student and climate groups

The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2025

Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic pollution in 15 years, says report

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken

The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2025

A Second Round with William Barr on Litigation Over Interstate Pollution

Whatever the merits of climate tort suits (or lack thereof), the argument they are preempted does not hold up.

Reason · Dec 3, 2025