Pollution
June 2026
Campaigner threatened with prosecution by Environment Agency after waterway cleanup
Trump’s DoJ intervenes to back Elon Musk in datacenter pollution lawsuit
Thames Water nationalisation moves closer as government objects to rescue deal
Trump wants to put a $75m coal terminal in this liberal California city. Residents aren’t having it
- Southern frontlines: Latin America and the CaribbeanFreedivers, leftover cables and bits of clay: Cuba gets inventive to save its pristine reefs amid US blockade
- The alternativesA solar-powered rubbish-eating boat? The vessel chomping plastic waste out of the sea
Trump targeting immigrants from countries hit most by climate shocks
Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says
This LA neighborhood is choked by smog. The solution: a network of sensors on offices, homes and bags
- The Audio Long Read‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed – podcast
- Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean‘Good lord, what a smell’: can Brazil’s biggest city save a vital source of water from sewage, bacteria and organised crime?
There are thousands of dirty old drill sites in Colorado. The state gave oil firms a $1bn pass
- Seascape: the state of our oceansIt has the highest levels of toxic Pfas in drinking water in Scotland. But how did this remote island become awash with forever chemicals?
Wildfires devastating richer areas but fewer hectares burned globally – study
May 2026
- PollutionwatchAir pollution slows lung growth during childhood, UK study shows
- Pass notesLawnmower hum: why the sound of the summer could cost you £5,000
- The aftermathBlossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress
How the plastic bottle cap became a parable for the value of EU regulation
Alberto Alemanno
‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’
- The BHP filesBHP ‘laughing’ at Australia’s key climate policy while pocketing hundreds of millions in tax breaks, Pocock says