Browsing: pollution

New research finds that heavy pollution in Southeast Asia is suppressing rainfall over land while intensifying it over the ocean.Cars, factories, and power plants are producing…

Almost 4,000 people in England and Wales are taking legal action over what they allege is six years of sewage pollution that has devastated three rivers,…

Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy and requiring fossil fuel plants to stay online, while their high level…

Air pollution increases the likelihood of people becoming frail in middle and old age, according to an international review of studies.People are living longer and, while…

Air pollution is affecting how well we sleep, according to the findings of an international evidence review. Dr Junxin Li, of the Johns Hopkins University School…

This article is part of “Innovations In: Alzheimer’s Disease” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Eisai.About four years ago Clifford…

Western wildfires are producing massive plumes of smoke that have, in recent years, clouded eastern skies. But a new study finds that, paradoxically, heat from fires…

Your article (Millions of Britons face higher risk of heart failure due to dirty air, study suggests, 8 September) is just the latest reminder that toxic…

A jump in greenhouse gas pollution in the US helped push global emissions higher in the first half of this year. This could be an omen…

Ed Miliband has been accused by MPs of subsidising dangerous and polluting “supersized status symbols” as his department hands grants to people who buy electric SUVs.The…