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Pollution

15 March 2025
  • illustration showing a large car as a money box

    Road hogs: what is Australia’s love of big cars costing us all?

    SUVs are now Australia’s most popular new car to buy. But while owners enjoy tax benefits and more powerful engines, society is paying in ways big and small
14 March 2025
  • Coal Power Plant in West Virigina<br>epa11954643 A view of the Harrison Power Station, a coal-fired power plant owned by FirstEnergy that was built in the early 1970s and uses approximately 5 million tons of coal annually, in Haywood, West Virginia, USA, 10 March 2025. President Donald Trump has moved to substantially change the Untied States’ energy policy since taking office in January, including rescinding industry regulations aimed at reducing pollution and promoting coal as potential solution to large energy demands of the Artificial Intelligence computing. EPA/JUSTIN LANE

    Trump’s environmental rule-shredding will put lives at risk, ex-EPA heads say

    Former agency leaders, including two Republicans, say rollbacks by Lee Zeldin could cause ‘severe harms’
  • Green hills and mountains and a river running through the middle

    The alternatives
    ‘All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation

    The Loess plateau was considered the most eroded place on Earth until China took action and reversed decades of damage from grazing and farming
  • Sorting through an illegal dump in Adana, Turkey. Photograph: Yasin Akgül/AFP/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish – podcast

    When China stopped receiving the world’s waste, Turkey became Europe’s recycling hotspot. The problem is, most plastics can’t be recycled. And what remains are toxic heaps of trash
    By Alexander Clapp. Read by Philip Arditti
13 March 2025
  • Water flows over the collapsed Kakhovka dam in Nova Kakhovka, in 2023.

    Destruction of Ukraine dam caused ‘toxic timebomb’ of heavy metals, study finds

    Researchers say environmental impact from Kakhovka dam explosion comparable to Chornobyl nuclear disaster
12 March 2025
  • smoke in air

    Trump officials decimate climate protections and consider axeing key greenhouse gas finding

  • Flesh footed Shearwater chick resting on the beach at Lord Howe Island

    The age of extinction
    Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows

  • a composite image showing a man in a suit and emissions rising from a smokestack at an oil refinery

    Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda could keep the world hooked on oil and gas

  • View of Cunsey Beck

    Changes to bathing water status test will deny rivers protection, say critics

11 March 2025
  • A worker sprinkles fertilizer around young grapefruit trees in the Indian River Citrus District on Florida's east coast.

    Controlled-release fertilizers can spread microplastics on US cropland – study

    Tiny bits of plastic can end up in water and soil at alarming levels, said lead author of University of Missouri paper
  • Chickens at an industrial poultry farm.

    Chicken manure can be classified as industrial waste, judge rules

    US-style mega-farms in Herefordshire face tough new regulations after high court ruling
  • Traffic jam including a number of yellow vehicles.

    Only seven countries worldwide meet WHO dirty air guidelines, study shows

    Annual survey by IQAir based on toxic PM2.5 particles reveals some progress in pollution levels in India and China
10 March 2025
  • The world’s staple crops such as wheat, maize and rice are under threat from pervasive particles.

    Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation

    Researchers say problem could increase number of people at risk of starvation by 400m in next two decades
  • An ultra-low emission zone, sign in London.

    Credit where it’s due for cleaner air in London

    Letters: Sadiq Khan should be congratulated for expanding the Ulez scheme despite criticism from Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, says Peter Walker. Plus a letter from Dr Robin Russell-Jones
  • Mark Ruffalo

    We’re facing a ‘forever chemicals’ crisis. We must stop Pfas at the source

    Mark Ruffalo
    Pfas are poisoning our soil and polluting our lungs. The EPA is finally sounding the alarm – but that’s not enough
9 March 2025
  • An aerial view of Windermere Wastewater Treatment Works

    UK government vows to clean up Windermere after sewage criticism

  • The River Derwent passes near Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.

    ‘The sewage scandal ends now’: UK water company fines to be used to clean up rivers

8 March 2025
  • A chemical plant in the distance

    Environmental justice in America
    Trump administration to drop case against plant polluting Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

    Biden-era suit sought to curb emissions of the carcinogen chloroprene at Denka plant formerly owned by DuPont
7 March 2025
  • A Ulez sign amid traffic on Brownhill Road in Lewisham, south London.

    Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion

  • Person cooking on a gas hob.

    Gas hob can raise indoor air pollution higher than busy UK road, study finds

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