Browsing: Pollution

Your article (Millions of Britons face higher risk of heart failure due to dirty air, study suggests, 8 September) is just the latest reminder that toxic…

Efforts to improve the climate could reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution in the US by about 6,000 people a year by 2030,…

Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through…

When a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1m landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water-quality problems, they knew that the findings would be…

Esme StallardClimate and science reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesBeddington incinerator has breached its environmental permits on 916 occasionsBeddington incinerator, which serves four south London councils, faces enforcement…

Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new…

Scientists are calling for a new global regime to address air pollution caused by the space industry.Prof Eloise Marais’s team at University College London (UCL) began…

Urban birds stay up significantly later than their rural counterparts, according to research that highlights the impact of light pollution on wildlife.The study, based on recordings…

Negotiators in Geneva are scrambling to salvage a global treaty to curb plastic pollution, on the final day of talks. Despite a strong push by nearly…

Negotiations to secure a global treaty to combat plastic pollution were in limbo as talks entered their final day after dozens of countries rejected the latest…