Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News on Pollution

Even after one year of ban on single-use plastic, traders flout norms in Visakhapatnam

BySiva Gorripati

The Times of India

Even after one year of the ban on single-use plastic, traders flout norms in in Visakhapatnam

BySiva Gorripati

The Times of India

Plastic pollution: campaigners around the world are using the courts to clean up – but manufacturers are fighting back

Plastic pollution has become such major problem that it’s threatening our human rights. That’s the view of two UN special rapporteurs (human rights advisers) who recently issued a joint statement, warning against the “overwhelming toxic tidal wave” of plastic endangering us and the environment “in a myriad of ways over…

The Conversation

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Indoor air pollution: the dangers inside your home

How clean is the air you breathe indoors? Before the pandemic, it was a question few people spending time inside offices, gyms, schools and homes asked themselves. But indoor air quality could be the next “frontier” in improving public health.

The Week

Environment Agency 'not advised of proposed policy to stop treating sewage' by Infrastructure chiefs

They said they "will take appropriate enforcement action for any non-compliance"

Belfast Live

How to clean a fan safely to maintain maximum efficiency during summer heat

Fans are the saviors of summer and keeping them clean is a good way to make sure they work more efficiently

Woman & Home

Sewage hotspots across UK mapped as Brits warned to avoid certain beaches and rivers

Brits can use this map tool to see the hotspots for sewage spillages around the country including treated and untreated waste so that they can be avoided this summer

Daily Mirror

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

3M agrees to $10.3 billion settlement in "forever chemicals" claims

The Minnesota-based company was hit with thousands of lawsuits over water contamination claims.

Axios

3M reaches $10.3 billion settlement over contamination of water systems with 'forever chemicals'

Chemical manufacturer 3M has agreed to pay at least $10.3 billion to settle lawsuits over contamination of many U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially harmful compounds known as PFAS

The Independent UK

Blackpool beaches still under 'Don't Swim' warning a week after 'appalling' sewage leak

A council leader has called on government to hold water companies to account

Manchester Evening News

‘Completely unacceptable’: dust from Newcrest Cadia goldmine 11 times the regulatory limit

The NSW Environment Protection Authority says it will ‘not shy away’ from suspending the mine’s licence if it does not comply

The Guardian - AU

To see how smoke affects endangered orangutans, we studied their voices during and after massive Indonesian wildfires

Bornean orangutans are one of three orangutan species, all critically endangered. They thrive in carbon-rich peat swamp forests on the Indonesian island of Borneo. These habitats are also the sites of massive wildfires.

The Conversation

Huge Cadia gold mine ordered to reduce polluting dust. Is it safe to live near a mine like this?

For the past 15 months, I have been helping residents living near the massive Cadia gold and copper mine in NSW to verify their concerns about pollution from the mine. The findings of alarming levels of heavy metals in their water tanks, as well as in blood and hair samples,…

The Conversation

Newcrest’s Cadia goldmine fails to meet clean air standards, NSW EPA finds

Regulator’s call for action on dust pollution comes after local residents reported blood tests with high levels of selenium, nickel and copper

The Guardian - AU

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Belfast Live

High Court agrees children have right to be heard on landmark air quality case

Friends of the Earth NI is bringing a judicial review against the Department for Infrastructure over its 17-year long failure to identify dangerous emissions levels during MOT testing

AAP

Gold mine faces licence ban over ongoing air pollution

NSW's environmental watchdog says it is ready to take strong action against a dirty gold mine operating near a major outback regional centre.

The Guardian - UK

Air pollution ‘aged’ hospital Covid patients by 10 years, study shows

Patients exposed to dirty air spent four days longer in hospital, the same impact as if they had been a decade older

Zenger

Air Pollution Worsens COVID-19, Even At Low Levels, New Study Finds

Exposure to air pollution increased hospital stays and risk of death, equivalent to being a decade older, research shows.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Plan to discharge water into Hudson River from closed nuclear plant sparks uproar

The Indian Point nuclear plant along the Hudson River is at the center of a controversy two years after it was shut down

The Conversation

Unprecedented marine heatwave underlines the urgency to clean up UK rivers and coasts

Thousands of people took to the UK’s seas and rivers recently in a nationwide “paddle-out” protest to demand an end to sewage spilling into the country’s waterways. The campaigners were largely concerned about the consequences of this filth for human health and nature.

Bangkok Post

Commercial premises to be billed for wastewater treatment

City Hall plans to introduce wastewater treatment fees for commercial buildings in Bangkok this year, but not for households.

The Hindu

Letters to The Editor — June 20, 2023

Readers’ mail to The Hindu’s Letters to The Editor

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Air quality disasters aren’t going away. Here’s how we should protect ourselves

As California residents, we are all too familiar with the orange skies that plagued the East Coast last week from Canadian wildfires and just hit the Midwest. And we have faced the plague of poor outdoor air quality many times while doing extensive public health work in cities, such as…

The Hindu

Samithi alleges human rights violation in using manual labour to clear culvert in Kozhikode

As the blocks in the culvert at Stadium Junction in the city were painstakingly removed over the last week, activists see a clear violation of human rights in using manual labour for the activity.

The Week

The world’s most polluted cities

New York was ranked as the world’s most polluted city after smoke billowing in from Canadian wildfires left residents choking on a thick cloud of smog.

1 … 79 80 81 82

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

World Health Organization

885 stories

Corporation

564 stories

the Environment Agency

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.