Browsing: pollution

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…

Residents of two Nigerian communities who are taking legal action against Shell over oil pollution are set to take their cases to trial at the high…

Air pollution in the UK is costing more than £500m a week in ill health, NHS care and productivity losses, with 99% of the population breathing…