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Ministers have been accused of risking Londoners’ health by “kicking the can down the road” on tackling toxic air.

Large numbers of dead fish washed up on Belmont, Redhead, Dudley, Merewether and Bar beaches, last week.

Babies exposed to smoke from a Latrobe Valley fire were overrepresented in emergency departments during the 12 months after the fire, new research says.

A lawmaker with the German Green party has called for establishing a legal structure to force polluters to pay for the destruction caused by climate change in vulnerable nations

Matt Thistlethwaite has vowed to return to Williamtown as "many times as needed" to achieve a long term solution to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances contamination that has plagued the community for the past seven years.

The typical way to open a leader column about air pollution is to call it a ‘silent killer’. I should know, I’ve done it a lot. Except, on reflection, that isn’t quite right or at least it hasn’t been for some time.

Toxic air was once a silent killer. No longer. We have known for some time that long-term exposure to human-made pollution — from transport, industry and heating — is linked to strokes, heart disease and lung cancer. The annual mortality rate is roughly 30,000 a year.

Indian campaigners join global delegation representing one billion children affected by climate crisis

The road is set to undergo a makeover, which aims to reduce traffic.

Nine-year-old Ella, who died in 2013, became the first person to have air pollution listed as a cause of death on their death certificate. Nitrogen dioxide emissions where Ella lived in south London exceeded both EU and national legal limits

On a beach in Senegal with so much plastic trash that much of the sand is covered, one man is trying to raise awareness about the dangers of plastics—by wearing many of the bags, cups and other junk that might just as soon be part of trash piles.