Pollution
-
Liberal Tories support Sadiq Khan on air pollutionLetters: The government’s current air-quality plan gives low-emission zones to just five other English cities, despite many others being affected by harmful pollution
-
The Clean Air Act is 60 years old. But as long as we prioritise the convenience of rich motorists, pollution will continue to killAs the wealthy clog our streets with cars, we’re struggling to breathe
-
Mexico City chokes on its congestion problemAuthorities are trying to reduce pollution in the capital but confused policy-making and rising car ownership are reducing the city to poisonous gridlock
-
Sadiq Khan unveils plans for extra charge on London's most polluting carsMayor to target older, dirtier vehicles with £10 charge from 2017 as part of proposals to tackle the capital’s ‘toxic’ air
-
Plastic waste dumped in UK seas 'carried to Arctic within two years'Analysis shows most UK plastic ends up in the Arctic, where it does ‘extreme harm’ to the fragile polar environment
-
Life before the Clean Air Act - your memories and picturesTo mark the 60th anniversary of the Clean Air Act, we’ve been asking Guardian readers to share their memories and stories of what the UK was like before the act came into force.
-
How air pollution affects your health - infographicExposure to air pollutants has been linked to suppressed lung growth, asthma, heart disease, foetal brain growth damage and the onset of diabetes
-
I hope Paul Flynn’s appointment to the shadow front bench ushers in new thinking in a world where youth can be prized over experienceAn 81-year-old as shadow leader of the house? Hear hear
-
Three-quarters of people living in cities want clean air zones, poll findsYouGov research shows 76% want to bring their cities in line with European limits on air pollution
-
Paris drives old cars off the streets in push to improve air qualityVehicles made before January 1997 banned from streets of French capital from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Friday
-
MEPs urge UK to honour new EU deal to halve deaths from air pollutionA post-Brexit Britain could choose whether to adopt new pollution limits to cut emissions of five key pollutants, including NOx and PM2.5
-
Children at nearly 90 London secondary schools exposed to dangerous air pollutionWestminster, Tower Hamlets and Southwark have highest number of secondaries in breach of legal limits of NO2, new research for the mayor reveals
-
Vietnam blames toxic waste water from steel plant for mass fish deathsTaiwanese firm Formosa Plastics that owns the plant says it will pay $500m towards clean up and compensation
-
Tax new diesel cars up to £5,000 to cut pollution, says reportMoney raised should be spent on improving public transport, cycling and walking, advise researchers
-
UK lacks policies to meet more than half its carbon emissions cuts – reportClimate Change Committee warns of rising transport pollution, failed action on buildings emissions and says leaving the EU throws some policies into doubt
-
UK coal power station in breach of EU air pollution lawENDS report: Defra and the Welsh government are likely to have to pay European commission’s legal costs for breaching air pollution rules at Aberthaw power station
-
UK light pollution 'causing spring to come a week earlier'Report is the first to examine the impact of artificial night-lighting on the seasonal behaviour of plants on a national scale
-
Atkins Ciwem environmental photographer of the year 2016 - the winners in picturesThe overall awards winners have been announced in the 2016 Atkins Ciwem environmental photographer of the year competition, an annual international showcase for thought-provoking photography and video that tackles a wide range of environmental themes
-
Global air pollution crisis 'must not be left to private sector'Energy authority says governments must take responsibility, and investment would pay for itself in health benefits
-
How can we make Brexit work for the environment?Craig Bennett: Leaving the EU puts about 70% of UK environmental safeguards at risk. But Brexit is not a mandate to make us the dirty man of Europe again – we have to make it work for the environment, from the grassroots up
-
UK's out vote is a 'red alert' for the environmentFrom the ‘red-tape’ slashing desires of the Brexiters to the judgment of green professionals, all indications are for weaker environmental protections
-
Brighton 1984 bomb may have exposed rescuers to asbestosAfter officer’s asbestos-linked death, police seek people who helped in aftermath of IRA attack aimed at Margaret Thatcher
-
Dutch prototype clean-up boom brings Pacific plastics solution a step closerIf tests of the 100 metre-long barrier that collects rubbish on the sea’s surface are successful, it could be deployed at a larger scale in the ‘great Pacific garbage patch’
-
Our new alliance unites 600m city dwellers in fight against climate changeCities are huge carbon emitters but are ideally placed to tackle climate change. Michael Bloomberg on how the Global Covenant can give them the tools to do so
-
Cattle station purchase 'fantastic' for Great Barrier Reef, green groups sayQueensland government’s $7m purchase aims to cut back on sediment flowing on to the reef, where it can smother coral and prevent its recovery from bleaching
-
A 'black and smelly' job: the search for China's most polluted riversA Chinese government campaign asks the public to hunt down polluted waterways that can then be mapped and cleaned up
-
Trader Joe's reaches settlement over Clean Air Act violation claimsGrocery chain agrees to reduce leakage of hydrochlorofluorocarbons and pay $500,000 fine after US officials claim it did not promptly repair refrigerators
-
How Brexit could damage our healthWe would lose drug research and health service funding as well as free treatment in Europe, and we’d have no external arbiters of food, air and water quality. This is dangerous
-
After Vélib’ bikes and Autolib’ cars, Paris adds mopeds to hire fleetOrganisers say low-cost vehicle emits no noise or fumes, although its maximum speed is unlikely to impress Top Gear
Pollutionwatch Calls for a new clean air act in the UK