Pollution

Failure to implement and enforce environmental laws is one of the greatest challenges to mitigating climate change.

Does the UK Government's Clean Air Strategy go far enough in tackling 'runaway ammonia emissions'?

Housing developers argue for increased clarity on nutrient management in Special Areas of Conservation.

A new amendment to the Agriculture Bill would help to protect rural communities from toxic pesticides.

Indigenous communities fear water essential to life is becoming contaminated by the nearby ilmenite mine.

Thousands of volunteers cleaned 487 beaches, river banks and lakes this autumn.

Book review: Martin Dorey's No.More.Plastic. doesn't offer the sustainable, long-term solutions we need.

The Resurgence & Ecologist magazine has ditched the plastic wrap after a year of searching for the most sustainable solution.

A voyage around the South Pacific is on a mission to change how we think about plastics.

Campaigner GD Agarwal was living on water mixed with lemon and honey for months in protest at the government’s failure to clean holy river.

Eco-friendly soap brand has launched shop designed to combat fast fashion.

Data from a new European Space Agency satellite reveals the scale and spread of NO2 on a global scale - from cities in Europe to wildfires in Africa.

Surfers Against Sewage calls on Philip Hammond, the chancellor, to use tax system to tackle single-use plastic in his forthcoming Autumn Budget.

Innovative research is uncovering previously unknown species in deep seas vulnerable to over-fishing, pollution and habitat destruction.

PCBs remain a deadly threat more than forty years since the first initiatives to ban these chemical pollutants.

Lethal pollution and damage from construction works continues to threaten the endangered species and indigenous people of Okinawa, Japan

Rio Tinto's QMM ilmenite mine in Madagascar has breached a legal buffer zone, exposing local people to “unacceptably high” environmental risks, a new study by the Andrew Lees Trust has found. YVONNE ORENGO and STEVEN EMERMAN report

The development of a new cruise ship terminal on the river Thames could undermine efforts to tackle the city’s air pollution crisis. City mayor Sadiq Khan has expressed his concerns about the project, but the decision rests in the hands of the local council. JOSEPH DUTTON investigates

Public protests at the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries in the town of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu, India, were met with police fire during the last two days, with 13 protesters killed and and hundreds injured. MRINALINI SHINDE and AMEYA BOKIL report

Brexit will result in Britain exiting the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. It will have to decide whether subsidies to farmers should be retained, or reformed. In the second part of this groundbreaking investigation a team of investigative journalists from across Europe - publishing with THE ECOLOGIST - assess how effective the environmental mechanisms of CAP really are.

Sustainability in cities must mean environment, economy and equality. But all too often town planners are only concerned about parks, cafes and side walks. This can lead to gentrification rather than improved quality of life, argue WINIFRED CURRAN and TRINA HAMILTON

Lake Ypacarai, southern Paraguay, was immortalised by the Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and his song about meeting a woman next to the blue lake. But due to pollution the lake has turned from blue to vivid green and then to murky brown. JOSEPH DUTTON investigates

The Access to Medicine Foundation checked whether 18 household-name pharmaceutical giants publicly report how much antibiotic discharge they release into the environment. Guess how many firms revealed that information. MADLEN DAVIES and SAM LOEWENBERG from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism report

ClientEarth has launched both English and Polish-language versions of a new campaign website. The law firm wants collect evidence from residents who believe their health is being affected by next-door industrial plants. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports