The Latest Breaking News from Pollution

The Beddington Energy Recovery Facility generates energy from residual waste that cannot be composted or recycled

Cigarette filters were widely introduced in the 1950s, ostensibly to make smoking less harmful. With growing public concern about lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases, the tobacco industry responded not by making cigarettes safer, but by making them seem safer. Filters were the perfect innovation – not for health, but…

Global air pollution is worsening, with the United States and Canada experiencing the sharpest increases due to record-breaking, climate-supercharged wildfires that are undoing decades of progress, a study said Thursday.

A two-year delay on new mercury rules benefits coal-fired power plants, while chemical plants got an exemption from stricter air pollution standards.

Other lives: Water quality campaigner who promoted natural ways of cleaning up polluted rivers

Some applaud TfL’s efforts to stop ‘headphone dodgers’, while others say people should ‘suck it up and get over it’

Campaigners accuse Yorkshire Water of negligence and say plan to top up reservoirs will kill the river’s fish

On a cold winter night in a rural area, I looked through a scope to see the rings of Saturn for the first time. Connecting grade school science book descriptions with a real life view amazed me.

Supplements that work as hard as you do.

According to latest government figures, heat-trapping pollution dropped by 1.4% in the year to March

On August 5, 2025, over 1,400 persons representing 183 countries arrived in Geneva, Switzerland to chalk out a consensus for a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution. The hope was that by August 14, an effective inter-governmental treaty would be signed that can significantly reduce the amount of plastics ending up in oceans and…