Environment
Pollution
Pollution is inescapable. It’s in our air, our waterways and even our food chain. We speak to communities on the frontlines of pollution crises and investigate the hidden, invisible sources of pollution that pose grave threats to human health.
Uganda cracks down on climate activists
Beaten, imprisoned and charged, Lauren Crosby Medlicott speaks to students facing trial for protesting against an oil pipeline.
What if ... we had the right to public transport?
Pipe dream or tested model for a better world? Conrad Landin jumps on the bandwagon.
Can we banish polluters from billboards?
Is it time we banned ads from greenwashing fossil fuel companies? Danny Chivers has some answers.
How to stop progress
Dana Drugmand explains how the powerful car industry has continually blocked change to keep us hooked.
‘I don’t want to live like this’
Community journalists from the northeast of England on the impact of air pollution on their lives.
Top of the class
Dirty air is not an impossible problem. Beth Gardiner assesses some places cleaning up their act.
Fed up with the fumes
Dirty air in Nigeria takes a huge toll on lives and livelihoods. But civil society is not short of ideas for change, as Michael Simire finds out.
The hidden polluters
Agricultural air pollution seems to be a tough nut to crack. Amy Hall explores the air-pollution problem down on the farm.
Unfit for habitation
India’s air pollution crisis affects millions, and not just in Delhi. Aruna Chandrasekhar meets people forced to live, and resist, at Mumbai’s toxic perimeter.
To protect life
Covid-19 has shown us that swift action on global health is possible, even if it still falls short. What could we achieve, asks Amy Hall, if we took an urgent approach to air pollution, another widespread killer?
Covid-19 cannot be an excuse for more toxic air
Air pollution kills millions of people each year. In the post-virus rush to return to ‘business as usual’, we could end up with worse air quality than ever before unless we make radical changes. Amy Hall writes.
Pigs that cross...
In talks about trade, something vital is omitted: the environment.
It’s all down to you
Dinyar Godrej explains why the packaging industry loves shunting the blame on individual consumers
No more of your junk
Adam Liebman explains why we need a less rosy notion of what actually happens to our recycling.
COP24: Who are these UN climate meetings for?
Nick Dowson highlights the issues up for debate, obstacles to negotiations and where all this leaves the majority world.
Dark clouds in Poland
Violeta Santos Moura reports from Poland, where reliance on coal kills some 45,000 people each year.
Chinese pollution on Gambian coast
Residents from a coastal village in the Gambia are suing a Chinese-owned fishmeal plant accused of pollution, writes Nosmot Gbadamosi.
Sacrifice Zone: BP, Freeport and the West Papuan independence struggle
Connor Woodman reveals the ties that bind transnational mining companies to the Indonesian occupation.
‘We are slowly being killed by this mine’
The British-Australian mine of Cerro Matoso has been linked to birth defects, pollution, poverty and paramilitary pay-offs. Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik investigates.
Climate Con: why a new global deal on aviation emissions is really bad news
A new climate deal is expected to be agreed upon soon by the International Civil Aviation Organization, is a cop-out, writes Oscar Reyes.
Global protests erupt against British mining company Vedanta
Critics are protesting the company’s reported practice of pollution, tax evasion and capital flight. Miriam Rose reports.
Here and no further, mass action against coal
This photo and video gallery surveys just some of the civil disobedience that recently took place in Germany.
One woman’s victory against a mining giant in Peru
Máxima Acuña has just won the Goldman Prize for her resistance against a gold mine – but why are women’s bodies on the frontlines of resistance to extractivism? asks Sian Cowman.
Ocean litter-pick off the Netherlands
Researchers from the Ocean Clean Up will place a 100-kilometre-long floating barrier off the Dutch coastline, Beulah Maud Devaney reports.
21st century COP out
A brief illustrated history of the climate negotiations by cartoonist Kate Evans.
China's climate transition
Is the world's most populous country a climate villain or an environmental leader? Sam Geall investigates.-
The Bay of Napoli
*Horatio Morpurgo* visits the scene of the _Napoli_, a container ship grounded off the coast of Britain, to see what lies beneath it. 
The answer to climate change is social change
Carbon offsets are not a solution. There are no quick fixes, time to ditch the guilt and get active argues Adam Ma’anit.