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Pollution

October 2024

  • woodburning storve

    Pollutionwatch
    Pollutionwatch: Dangers of adding rubbish to home fires

    Tests show adding just 10% of waste to a wood burner indoors can double its particle pollution
  • Bluebells in the Borrowdale valley in the Lake District

    Nature in England at risk as amount of land ‘effectively protected’ falls to 2.93%

    Experts are calling for ‘rapid rescue package’ for nature to improve condition of protected sites
  • plume of smoke in sky above street and row of trees

    ‘Pattern of negligence’: a chemical plant fire in Georgia forces tens of thousands to take shelter

    The smell of chlorine pervades Conyers as residents say BioLab’s accident was a danger hiding in plain sight

September 2024

  • Workers remove garbage from a truck at a landfill

    Feud erupts between Florida officials over proposed trash incineration plant

  • Thames Water metal cover on paving

    Labour used water industry analysis to argue against nationalisation

  • Alistair Boxall, professor in environmental science at the University of York, taking a water sample at Brook Head Beck

    The age of extinction
    ‘Rivers you think are pristine are not’: how drug pollution flooded the UK’s waterways – and put human health at risk

  • Corallian Energy Drill in Poole Bay To Explore Oil Reserves<br>POOLE, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 15: ENSCO-72 drilling rig working in Poole Bay for Corallian Energy on February 15, 2019 in Poole Bay, England. The scheme to drill more than 1,000 metres below the seabed to explore oil reserves in the Colter prospect has until February 28. Save Our Shores Bournemouth says the chemical permit issued by government regulator OPRED allows ‘up to 6753 tons of chemicals to be discharged, including eight tons of biocide’. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Oil pollution in UK waters far worse than reported, says conservation group

  • Where does the UK’s fast fashion end up? I found out on a beach clean in Ghana

  • Residents near Lancashire chemicals plant told to wash homegrown produce

  • Six water firms in England ‘overcharged customers by up to £1.5bn’

  • Swiss voters reject biodiversity proposal in blow to conservation campaigners

  • UK public washing their clothes too often, says major laundry brand

  • Pollutionwatch
    Knowing polluting impact of home fires could modify behaviour, study finds

  • Labour in apparent disarray over Thames cleanup plan

  • Plantwatch
    Plantwatch: How ornamental plants can help clean up waterways

  • ‘We empower ourselves’: the women cleaning up Bolivia’s Lake Uru Uru

  • The age of extinction
    Global spending on subsidies that harm environment rises to $2.6tn, report says

  • Biden’s green policies will save 200,000 lives and have boosted clean energy jobs, data shows

  • Is pollution in England’s rivers really getting worse? There’s more good news than you might think

    Michelle Jackson

  • Billpayers in England and Wales tricked into ‘stealth bailout’ of water companies

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