Browsing: pollution

Once again negotiators will leave the plastic summit this week without a treaty, having failed to reach agreement in what was supposed to have been the…

As the UK’s Big Butterfly Count reaches more than 100,000 submissions, an international group of scientists have produced the first national survey of biodiversity using an…

Chemical pollution is “a threat to the thriving of humans and nature of a similar order as climate change” but decades behind global heating in terms…

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…