Pollution

But the government said such a programme "could cause unnecessary concern to an already distressed community".
School nurse Nicola Pearson, 45, found herself unable to breathe during a fireworks display. Here's how to stay safe while enjoying Bonfire Night festivities.
Organisers say at least 300,000 people have taken part in the global strikes on the climate emergency. Adults have been urged to join school students this week in their Friday school strikes, a protest begun by Greta Thunberg.
In the UK, 44,895 cases of asthma could be avoided if the country reduced air pollution.
We're 209 days into the year, but we've already crossed the point where humanity has started consuming the world's resources faster that they can be regenerated or replenished. In 2018, the Overshoot day was also 29 July, the earliest it has ever been.
Nearly 60% of the more than 4,500 beaches sampled in 2018 had at least one day of unsafe bacteria levels.
Emails show long-time corporate mercenaries on the march at the US Environmental Protection Agency.
When retired naval officer Victor Vescovo made a record-breaking 10,928 m submarine dive to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, he probably wasn’t expecting to come across man-made litter...but he did. Just a few days after the United Nations has issued a damning report of the state of our planet, we take a look at other unlikely places where we’ve managed to leave a damaging trace.