The Latest Breaking News from Pollution

A coal mine near the Royal National Park in NSW has had its operating licence tightened after "significant pollution events".

For several months, PM2.5 dust has exceeded 50 microgrammes per cubic metre (µg/m³) in many provinces in Thailand, which is considered unsafe. In some areas, such as Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Mae Hong Son, PM2.5 levels have reached over 500µg/m³. While some people are aware of the dangers of…

Air pollution is a major threat to global health and prosperity, and it does significant damage to the environment. These were the capitals with the deadliest air pollution last year.

Bright display boards against the use of banned plastic items can be spotted in the 16th-century granite fort complex at Vellore as the district unit of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has declared the fort plastic-free zone

EPA has ordered chemical company Chemours to stop discharging high levels of the toxic substance into the Ohio River

Ohio will have until the end of June to finish a plan to aimed at combating toxic algae blooms that have flourished in Lake Erie since the late 1990s

Looking at the health problems caused by air pollution, poorer communities have most to gain

After taking severe damage to their health, the people living in villages around Ongole city in Prakasam district took up the fight to get a pesticide factory shifted from their locality, but in vain  

The Pollution Control Department (PCD) said it will follow World Health Organization guidelines and reclassify the safe level for ultra-fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from 50 microgrammes per cubic metre (µg/m3) to 37.5 µg/m3 in a bid to curb dust pollution.