Browsing: pollution

Can Astronomers and Satellite Operators Learn to Share the Sky?Satellite streaks are ruining astronomical images. Can scientists and space companies find solutions before it’s too late?By…

Plastic pollution has reached the most remote and inaccessible parts of our beleaguered planet. It has been found in Greenland’s ice cap, near the summit of…

Good morning. Not only does plastic waste clog up waterways, beaches and strangle sea life, it also causes havoc inside the human body. Tiny fragments –…

What is the administration doing?The endangerment finding, enshrined in 2009, found that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health. It followed a 2007 supreme court…

A wide-ranging analysis, drawing from data on nearly 30 million people, finds a link between air pollution and dementia. Studies have long shown that air pollution is…

Wet wipe producers should be charged to remove their pollution from England’s waterways, the author of a government review into reforming the sector says.Sewage has been…

Keeping the classroom window closed is not the answer to reduce the amount of pollution coming into schools, a recent study has found.A project called SAMHE…

A new study finds a drop in air pollution likely drove a recent surge in warming.Warming has accelerated over the last two decades, and in particular,…

A Guardian analysis has raised fresh questions over the way regulators and corporations measure the air quality impact of planned factories that risk emitting dangerous levels…

More than 110 million people across Europe suffer high levels of health-damaging noise pollution, according to a report. The resulting physiological stress and sleep disturbance leads…