Pollution

Washing and drying clothes releases thousands of microplastic particles into the environment.

UK companies are flooding poorer countries with agrochemicals that are banned in the EU.

At least 8,549 educational institutions in UK have background levels of a tiny particle pollution known as PM2.5 exceeding international guidelines.

Campaigners launch legal challenge to Environment Agency’s decision to grant a permit for one of Europe’s biggest waste incinerators.

Cutting UK pollution to stricter WHO guideline levels could prevent 17,000 early deaths a year of working age people.

The Co-op launches special in-store collection points to encourage shoppers to recycle more flimsy plastic products.

Carbon Tracker: petrochemical industry betting on growth in demand for plastics made from fossil fuels.

Greenpeace report calculates UK supermarkets use 114 billion pieces of plastic packaging each year.

The government is taking a small step in the right direction by raising the price of plastic bags again...

Caribbean particularly vulnerable to climate breakdown with extreme hurricane rainfall five times more likely in a warmer world.

Covid-19 pandemic should be a wake-up call for water security.

The UK government will set long-term targets for air quality, resource efficiency and waste reduction, biodiversity, and water.

The supply of waste plastics to the ocean has been substantially underestimated, researchers say.

Plastic pollution is seen as a growing threat to wildlife as birds, such as fulmars, can mistake it for food.

The combined impacts of pesticides and air pollution on bees could have severe consequences.