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Pollution

May 2026

  • Children walking hand in hand on a pavement near traffic

    Pollutionwatch
    Air pollution slows lung growth during childhood, UK study shows

  • A man with a loudspeaker wearing a shirt and jeans with a mouthpiece, and a woman in a floral dress looking at him with a lawnmower in her hand

    Pass notes
    Lawnmower hum: why the sound of the summer could cost you £5,000

  • Someone out of focus lying down and looking at a purple petalled flower with a yellow centre among grass blades

    The aftermath
    Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress

  • Alberto Alemanno

    double quotation markHow 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 files
    BHP ‘laughing’ at Australia’s key climate policy while pocketing hundreds of millions in tax breaks, Pocock says

  • The BHP files
    World’s biggest miner BHP backtracks on climate action with key projects put on ice, leaked documents reveal

  • The BHP files
    BHP defies its own climate strategy to spend hundreds of millions on polluting diesel trucks in Pilbara

  • The BHP files
    double quotation markAustralian taxpayers subsidise Big Mining’s use of fossil fuel to the tune of $4bn a year. It’s a strange way to tackle emissions

    Adam Morton

  • The BHP files
    Revealed: the internal BHP memo that slammed the brakes on world’s biggest miner’s climate push

  • Full Story
    Exclusive: Leaked documents show BHP’s climate backtrack – Full Story podcast

    Podcast20:53

  • The BHP files
    BHP files: leaked memo shows miner backtracking on key climate projects in Australia – video

    Video4:18

  • The BHP files
    BHP quietly scrapped plan to build Pilbara plant that would have drastically cut emissions

  • River Wye granted rights in UK first that could help in fight against pollution

  • California: 40,000 people ordered to evacuate over chemical leak fears

  • UN’s climate crisis vote shows political momentum is growing, say experts

  • Plastic food and drink packaging ‘world’s most common coastal litter’

  • The English community that brought its river back from the brink: ‘If we can get it right here, we can do it everywhere’

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    High levels of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found off coast of southern England

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

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