The Latest Breaking News from Pollution

The powerful Canary Current ferries trash from across the world to the island beaches of the West African country.

140bn metric tons of planet-heating gases could be unleashed if fossil fuel extraction plans get green light, analysis shows

Locals blame chemical leaks and pollution for sudden deaths

LOS ANGELES — With smoggy Southern California poised to miss a critical clean air goal next year, local regulators are now threatening to sue the Environmental Protection Agency, saying the federal government has made their job “impossible.”

The petroleum company is under investigation for misleading the public while exacerbating the global plastic pollution crisis

Those wishing to use loudspeakers are to get permission within 15 days

Pieter De Poortere is putting his best-known character, Dickie, to work to help galvanise opposition to a giant plastics plant in Antwerp

Fleet of steel ferries to be replaced with seven catamaran ferries with fibre-reinforced plastic body

A cutting-edge new tool developed by Minderoo Foundation has identified thousands of waste sites across 25 countries for the first time using advanced satellite data technology and machine learning to measure piles of plastic waste from space. Global Plastic Watch ( globalplasticwatch.org ) is a tool which combines earth observation…

Flight path and aircraft noise is emerging as a key federal election issue in inner-Brisbane electorates, with residents in dozens of suburbs complaining of excessive noise pollution from Brisbane Airport's new runway.

New Justice Dept. office will take on polluters in hard-hit communities