The Latest Breaking News on Pollution

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says flaws in a Vermont program are preventing the state from adequately controlling phosphorus discharges from certain farms, which contribute to severe water quality problems in Lake Champlain and other bodies of water

Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa want international criminal court to class environmental destruction as crime alongside genocide

Low and middle-income countries generally lack access to renewable energy and rely excessively on traditional fuels like firewood and charcoal. In these countries, 2.6 billion people depend mainly on polluting fossil fuels (for electricity) and traditional biomass fuels (such as wood or charcoal for cooking) to meet their daily energy…

City Hall maintains its own research proves the scheme is working ‘even better than expected’

Big River Watch scheme asks general public to help monitor state of rivers after years of deregulation

The Border Water Quality Restoration and Protection Act aims to address a situation that has led people to move out of the area

We have used machine learning to identify the biggest plastic pollution hotspots across more than 50,000 towns, cities and rural areas worldwide. Our new global model reveals the most detailed picture of plastic pollution ever created with the highest environmental concentrations in India, predominantly because so much of its waste…

After identifying flaws in the state’s air monitoring, the Tribune hosted workshops to inform Houston Ship Channel communities.

Harm to health is not confined to winter when people are using stoves and fireplaces, study shows

Research suggests four in 10 children previously driven to school have switched to more ‘active’ modes of travel

The bosses of water companies that pollute waterways could go to prison under a new aimed at cleaning up Britain's sewage-clogged rivers, lakes and beaches