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Pollution

February 2026

  • Young girl using asthma inhaler.

    Democracy and justice
    Trump’s environmental rollbacks contradict RFK’s healthy America promise, report finds

  • Jeremy Wrathall, founder and chief executive of Cornish Lithium at the site of a former china clay mine near St Dennis.

    The lithium boom: could a disused quarry bring riches to Cornwall?

  • Two people sit on grass next to a beach and look out across the Firth of Forth

    Up to half of coarse sediments on UK urban beaches may be human-made, study suggests

  • Water running out of a tap.

    Environmentalists decry ‘crushingly disappointing’ Pfas action plan for UK

  • The Guardian view on London’s nightlife: how to share city space is best resolved locally

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Is tyre pollution causing mass deaths in vulnerable salmon populations?

  • Country diary
    Country diary 1926: The reek from industrial towns reaches the Dales

  • America's dirty divide
    Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations

January 2026

  • A still from a video

    Ulez bomber: the retired electrician who turned bomb-making extremist

  • Closeup of sausages and beef grilling on an outdoor grill in a park

    ‘Humanity’s favourite food’: how to end the livestock industry but keep eating meat

  • Composite image of a man picking up rubbish from a beach sand dune

    Change by degrees
    Plastic patrol: the citizen scientists tackling litter in Australian waterways

  • Illustration of men and climate crisis

    How Trump’s EPA rollbacks could harm our air and water – and worsen global heating

  • The alternatives
    ‘Clean air should not be a privilege’: how Bogotá is tackling air pollution in its poorest areas

  • ‘Pesticide cocktails’ polluting apples across Europe, study finds

  • ‘Not radical, it’s fair’: Australian households would receive compensation in proposed ‘polluter pays’ levy scheme

  • The first year of Trump 2.0
    ‘Shameful’: Trump’s EPA accused of prioritizing big business over public health

  • The 16-month battle to reveal the truth about Sydney Water’s poo balls

  • The aftermath
    The Fukushima towns frozen in time: nature has thrived since the nuclear disaster but what happens if humans return?

  • Health groups sue EPA over insecticide that causes testicular damage in rats

  • New filtration technology could be gamechanger in removal of Pfas ‘forever chemicals’

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