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Pollution

May 2026

  • Swimmers with floats get into the water

    ‘You feel you’ve conquered the world’: a Thames swimmer on the river’s first bathing site in London

  • people holds signs and chant against a proposed data center

    ‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

  • House dust magnified under a microscope showing tangled fibres and strands

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘You have to be where the pollution is’: the inventor hoping to fix your washing machine to stop microplastics

  • A woman carries a bundle of firewood on her head. Her face is wrapped with a bright pink scarf so only her eyes are visible; she wears a blue patterned short-sleeved dress and bracelets on each arm.

    Public health at risk across Asia as Iran crisis sends price of cooking gas soaring

  • Trump’s rollback of toxic gas rules limits EPA’s authority to protect public health, analysis says

  • The long read
    ‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed

  • Sharp drop in ‘forever chemicals’ in seabird eggs hailed as win for regulation

  • Fears for plastic treaty talks as Norway reviews UN project funding

  • Fish farms and pollution in Scotland

  • Down to Earth newsletter
    How one man’s mission to clear dumped boats inspired Guardian readers

    Newsletter

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘An epidemic of flies, rats, waste and foul odours’: health fears in Cuba as US oil blockade halts rubbish collection

  • Gibraltar dumping all of its raw sewage into Mediterranean

  • Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’

  • double quotation markLasers, hawks and even guns haven’t solved the UK’s pigeon problem. There is a better way

    Sydney Lobe

  • ‘Living in survival mode’: Houston’s embattled immigrant community faces health, climate and petrochemical crises

  • Pollutionwatch
    Large-scale sporting events cause unexpected air pollution, study shows

April 2026

  • campaign leader Justine Evans and supporters protest river pollution outside Royal Courts of Justice in London

    Industrial chicken producer hits out over Wye and Usk river pollution claim

  • people stand between airplanes

    ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated site

  • bottles with toxic hazard symbol

    Largest-ever ban on toxic chemicals in EU hit by ‘extremely frustrating’ delays

  • A man in overalls stands on a muddy riverbed next to a VW van and a boat.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Stern warning: one man’s mission to clear the rotting boats poisoning Cornwall’s creeks

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