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While some vehicles can face a charge of up to £50 a day, not all motorists will have to pay the pollution toll

More than 1,000km southwest of Mahé, the main inhabited island in Seychelles, lies a ring of coral islands called the Aldabra Atoll. The islands are a Unesco world heritage site and support a huge diversity of marine species including manta rays and tiger sharks. The atoll is also a breeding…

Campaigners in Oxfordshire, Cotwolds and Cumbria say houses should not be occupied until systems can cope

Pilot program in the Bronx, New York, found striking differences in the levels of harmful indoor chemicals after the switch

The Biden administration banned the dumping of mining waste near Bristol Bay, Alaska, issuing a decree that thwarts longstanding plans to extract gold, copper and molybdenum because of potential harm to the region’s thriving sockeye salmon industry.

The Government has been criticised for allowing “killer pollution” to contaminate playgrounds by not being ambitious enough with air quality targets.

The presenter lives in one of the most polluted boroughs in the capital

Take a walk or drive through the streets of most Nigerian cities, and you will see plastic waste everywhere. The country’s rivers, lakes and ocean are also full of discarded plastic. Nigeria is estimated to generate about 2.5 million tonnes of plastic waste annually. Plastic accounts for 15% of the…

Report finds ‘relatively small group’ of rich people contribute disproportionately to emissions