The Latest Breaking News on Pollution

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will study whether to toughen regulation of large livestock farms that pollute waterways

The first tolls from the Newcastle Clean Air Zone will be issued next Monday, January 30

NEW figures have been released which show Scotland did not breach legal air pollution limits in 2022 for the first time, excluding the impact of…

New research found Scotland as a whole had met its air pollution targets for the first time except 2020 when the country was in lockdown.

A hundred people gathered on a beach in Pornic on France's north western coast (Loire-Atlantique) on Saturday to denounce the pollution of plastic micro-beads washed up there and on other beaches in recent weeks. Several elected officials have filed a legal complaint against what they describe as an "environmental nightmare".

Hundreds of millions of people living in sub-Saharan Africa still use polluting cooking fuels. A recent survey across 33 countries in the region found that over 90% of households were found to use firewood, charcoal, or other heavily polluting fuel as their primary cooking fuel.

The yellow weather warning is in place between midnight and 11 am today (January 22)

The Met Office said the haze will be so thick that visibility drops as low as 50m in some parts of England.

No, the government isn't coming for your stove. Yet parents might want to rip them out themselves