BrainCan - pollution

for a clean, green future, britain must remain in...

Strong progress made on everything from biodiversity to recycling will all be save at risk whether...

the guardian view on diesel pollution: tougher...

The VW scandal was not a surprise but it must lead to effective action – even though the cost will...

the guardian view on air pollution proposals: too...

If the UK government is serious approximately cutting noxious emissions,it needs to step on it. We...

toxic chemicals found in most outdoor gear

PFCs are hazardous to the environment and human health and ‘widely present’ in a range of...

boris johnson leaves london breathing uneasy |...

Obesity and alcohol command more attention,but floating poisons such as diesel fumes take just as...

would volkswagen have got away with its pollution...

The carmaker is not the only company poisoning the air. Yet still our government blocks effective...

leaving tackling air pollution to local...

The government’s proposal to leave tackling air pollution to local authorities alone is another...

fatal consequences of a lack of regulation |...

Pollution and climate change are election issues,write Professor Steve Tombs and Geoff NaylorThe...

air quality: governments woo the motor industry...

Ministers need to take responsibility for the effects of pollution on public healthThe scandal over...

renault promises plan to bring down emissions from...

Renault announces it is working on technical design to lop emissions from its cars,following raid on...

delhis air pollution is causing a health crisis....

The city’s toxic air has been linked to allergies,respiratory conditions, birth malformations and...

climate change politics is blinding us to the...

Governments are failing to address the links between air pollution and global warming. Doing so...

london should lead in showing electric cars will...

The government’s new strategy does not go far enough in recognising fewer vehicles,not just...

rising threat of transport emissions | letters

Harold Forbes says the principle of polluter pays is rarely implemented; Jeremy Tomkinson calls for...

the guardian view on delhi s pollution: when smog...

Cricket is famous for the many things that can interrupt a game. But the halting of a Test match in...

the truth about londons air pollution

Invisible pollution kills up to 9000 people a year in the capital. But under government plans,from...

plastic now pollutes every corner of earth

From supermarket bags to CDs,man-made waste has contaminated the entire globe, and become a marker...

adapting to air pollution with clean air stands in...

As with climate change,both mitigation and adaptation are needed to tackle air pollution in...

why an opinion article on delhis air pollution...

A modern York Times anecdote of an eight-year-worn’s struggle to draw a breath of air set off a...

water utilities serving american cities use tests...

Guardian analysis reveals millions of customers were asked to used testing method condemned by the...

from earplugs to bedroom swaps: how to protect...

Everyday hubbub can increase your chance of cardiovascular problems,modern research claims. Here are...

air pollution threat hidden as research presumes...

preceding investigations fail to reveal impact of ‘world’s largest human health threat’...

boris johnson and london s toxic air | letters

Despite claims in your editorial (Boris Johnson leaves London breathing uneasy,24 February),...

study reveals your nitrogen footprint - and who it...

Emissions of reactive nitrogen have increased more than 10-fold over the past 150 years,contributing...

wide range of cars emit more pollution in...

Diesel cars made by Renault,Nissan, Hyundai, and Citroen,Fiat and Volvo among others emitted far...

air pollution has been lost in the murk of the...

Boris Johnson has left Londoners with an urgent problem with dirty air. Whoever replaces him needs...

call for pollution tax on sales of new diesel cars...

An £800 tax would fund primitive diesel scrappage,encourage move to low-emission vehicles and...

is your football team playing badly? it may be air...

Footballers’ performance is affected by particles in the air,says German studyDown the years,...

emissions scandal: how the drive for diesel ran...

Diesel,with its lower CO2 emissions, was a policy precedence but NOx failed to tumble despite the...

wanted! an army of citizen scientists to tackle...

A Europe-wide project asks iPhone users to attend monitor levels of pollution in major citiesTurn...

carmakers gaming of emissions tests costing...

Exclusive: On-the-road fuel efficiency is far lower than in lab tests,pushing up costs and CO2...

london air pollution live data - where will be...

Toxic NO2 pollution affects most of urban areas of the UK,but London is worst hit. View live data...

will real world emissions tests clean up diesel...

Ministers say the current tests set the car industry on the ‘right path’ but critics warn they...

coal fired plant permits no longer need proof of...

Environmental lawyers’ group says illegal Environment Agency permits have dropped critical...

environment groups throw down the green gauntlet...

At the start of Greener London week,the UK’s leading environmental groups call for the next London...

car fumes are killing us. so why isn t anyone...

The health risks from vehicle air pollution are well known: heart attacks,strokes, lung cancer....

stop making diesel cars and pedestrianise town...

Breathing secure air is a fundamental human right all too often denied to peopleBreathing secure air...

uk, france and germany lobbied for flawed car...

Exclusive: Countries publicly calling for investigations into VW emissions rigging scandal absorb...

middle east conflict drastically altered air...

Rise of Isis led to substantial decrease in NO2 emissions in Baghdad and central Iraq since 2013,say...

more than 1,000 diesel cars caught without...

Government urged to crack down on rogue practice of garages removing compulsory diesel particulate...

brexit would return britain to being dirty man of...

Leading group of environmentalists warns that leaving the European Union would mean a return to...

world pollutionwatch: pain in spain

Residents of Madrid became the latest to possess their daily lives disrupted by the failure to...

tory lobbying against air pollution laws smells of...

The UK government’s bid to weaken EU laws to limit toxic pollution wouldn’t appear in any...

impossible to cheat emissions tests show almost...

Other current research shows diesel vehicles cause 88% of the £6bn annual damage to people’s...

how conniving carmakers caused the diesel air...

Cheating,dodging rules and heavy lobbying by motor manufacturers fuelled the toxic air the UK is...

mps: uk air pollution is a public health emergency

Cross-party committee of MPs says the government needs to do much more to tackle the...

mayoral candidates call for tighter controls on...

Ban on diesel cars and extending ultra-low emission zone mooted after DfT study raises concerns over...

air fresheners, joss sticks, deodorants - and...

A unusual report says a wide range of household items act as pollutants in our homes. So,how can we...

the deadly toll of city smog

In mid-January 2016 a three-day smog covered London,Nottingham, Leicester and Birmingham. January...

this is no time to weaken limits on air pollution...

I was dismayed to read your article (UK lobbying for weaker limits on air pollution,14 December)....

toothless environment agency is allowing the...

The farcical investigation of the pollution case I exposed in a Devon river highlights how budget...

uk toxic car pollution tests delayed by lack of...

MPs told it will be several months before levels of nitrogen oxide will become known as there is...

indias smog choked capital imposes driving...

original Delhi on Friday imposed driving restrictions that will seize around a million cars off its...

indoor and outdoor air pollution claiming at least...

Report finds air pollution inside and external the home is costing £20bn a year as well as causing...

mercedes owner files us suit over diesel emissions

Maker Daimler says allegations unfounded,as Hagens Berman files suit claiming Mercedes Clean Diesel...

illegal air pollution will blight many uk cities...

Government draw to improve air quality will still leave people in dozens of cities,including London,...

mayors of 20 european cities attack weak eu diesel...

Mayors from Paris,Madrid and Athens say loophole in NOx emissions tests puts citizens’ health at...

scientists: air pollution led to more than 5.5...

More than half of the deaths were in India and China,and researchers compared air pollution problem...

us authorities distorting tests to downplay lead...

Exclusive: Documents seen by the Guardian reveal questionable practices that mean people’s...

air pollution: uk environment ministers face court...

Law firm ClientEarth says it will seek urgent court action because of the risk to peoples lives from...

eu car pollution laws have improved uks air...

fresh Euro 6 standards will eliminate exhaust pollutants,says industry facing criticism over...

full scale of plastic in the worlds oceans...

Over five trillion pieces of plastic are floating in our oceans says most comprehensive study to...

electric cars are not the answer to air pollution,...

Prof Frank Kelly says fewer not cleaner vehicles are needed,plus more cycling and walking and better...

more than half us population lives amid dangerous...

American Lung organization’s ‘state of the air’ report finds 166 million Americans are living...

eu parliament fails to close loopholes in...

MEPs fail to veto proposal that will allow cars to emit twice the limit of NOx pollution following...

air pollution at this level for 10 more years will...

The courts must be involved: the quality of air our children breathe is too important to be decided...

obama administration tightens rules on smog...

EPA cuts standard for US smog levels to 70 parts per billionCampaigners on both sides of debate...

lord drayson launches pollution sensor powered by...

Businessman and Labour party donor’s FreeVolt project uses ambient wireless and mobile network...

government passing the buck on air pollution, says...

Critics say plan to perform councils responsible for policing pollution in urban areas offers no...

pollutionwatch: lets rate exhaust fumes as also a...

Vision Zero is a blueprint that rejects road accident deaths as ‘acceptable’. Is it time we...

spikes in air pollution can heighten risk of chest...

Study of PM2.5 levels in Utah suggests increase in diagnoses of viral infections such as bronchitis...

kenyas erin brockovich defies harassment to bring...

Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark course action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a...

revealed: every londoner breathing dangerous...

Exclusive: Every area of the capital breaches global standards for PM2.5 pollution particles,with...

london drivers urged to turn off engines in bid to...

Plans announced by Boris Johnson would see the capital’s drivers encouraged by signs and...

from london to delhi, air pollution kills. why do...

Pollution in some world cities is more than 12 times higher than secure levels. Maybe it explains...

more chinese cities issue red alerts for heavy...

Authorities respond to forecasts of heavy smog by issuing first red alerts for pollution in 10...

eu caves in to auto industry pressure for weak...

Green MEPs describe newly minted test procedure,which will allow car manufactures to emit more than...

diesel cars emit up to four times more toxic...

Failure to spend available technology to cut dangerous nitrogen oxides in recent cars is a...

filthy air and foul weather

Too much pollution makes us cough and wheeze,but did you know that it can also change our weather?...

more people die from air pollution than malaria...

More than 3 million people die prematurely each year from outdoor pollution and without action...

government passing the buck on air pollution, say...

Critics say plan to effect councils responsible for policing pollution in urban areas offers no...

see you in court: activists ready for trump to...

With the Trump administration poised to roll back rules on smog and drilling off Alaska and the east...

unchecked pollution and bad food killing...

Government’s failure to tackle health and safety issues,food poisoning and pollution main to...

microplastics: which beauty brands are safe to...

The tiny beads used in exfoliant scrubs and toothpastes are at various stages of being phased out by...

air pollution experts call for scrappage scheme...

Report outlines moves that would prick pollution from road transport and gas combustion in London...

more people dying early from air pollution in...

Premature deaths attributed to particulate pollution rose in 2013 after falling in preceding...

weak eu tests for diesel emissions are illegal ,...

Loopholes in planned ‘genuine world’ tests allow cars to emit double the standard for NOx...

beijing air quality improved in 2015 despite...

Environmental authorities say the Chinese capital’s air quality in 2015 was better than the year...

carmakers urge eu to delay new emissions limits by...

Head of Acea manufacturers’ group calls plan to cap nitrogen oxide emissions for unusual cars by...

volkswagen scandal q a: what you need to know...

Rigged tests mean diesel pollution levels are higher than thought. But is diesel that gross? And how...

vw scandal caused nearly 1m tonnes of extra...

Emissions could have far greater impact in Europe,where nearly half passenger cars are diesel, than...

rare earthenware: a journey to the toxic source of...

Artists Unknown Fields Division,in collaboration with Kevin Callaghan, traced the global supply...

pollution de lair: oubliez les masques, voici les...

La pollution de l’air serait-elle une bataille déjà perdue? Les chiffres alarmants pourraient...

carmakers accused of clutching at straws over...

VW,BMW, Opel and Daimler’s promise to fix 5 million cars not enough to undo the damage done by...

the annotated picture: climbing nelson s column

Luke Jones and Ali Garrigan climbed the monument in Trafalgar Square on Monday to protest...

the worst air pollution in the us is not where you...

The American Lung Association has an annual report out nowadays on the troubling state of US air...

two thirds of british public back microbead ban

Greenpeace poll finds 61% of women and 53% of men would follow US example and ban the use of plastic...

sahara dust only partly responsible for uks worst...

lean film of red dust enveloping parts of country for two weeks in 2014 came mostly from farms in...

air pollution raises risk of death for decades...

Longest-running study to date analyses long-term mortality risks of Britons exposed to historic...

tories halve councils cash to fight air pollution...

Local authorities will pick up just £500000 - down from £1m final year and £3m in 2011-12 -...

delhi considers shutting schools as toxic smog...

Many schools believe already restricted outdoors activities as record levels of air pollution in the...

vw emissions cheat estimated to cause 59 premature...

Recall of affected cars by the end of 2016 would avoid more than 130 further early deaths,research...

vw emissions scandal is a one off incident, says...

Cheating on vehicle emissions is not an industry-wide problem,insists UK’s top representative of...

the rise of diesel in europe: the impact on health...

In a bid to reduce CO2 emissions in the 90s,Europe backed a major switch from petrol to diesel cars...

nine out of 10 new diesel cars exceed eu pollution...

Road test reveals cars emit seven times the permitted level of exhaust emissions when tested in...

suffocating dead zones spread across worlds oceans

Critically low oxygen levels now pose as worthy a threat to life in the world's oceans as...

votre roti du dimanche pollue votre maison comme...

Des scientifiques ont découvert que la cuisson de repas rôtis ou grillés pouvait rendre l’air...

why the nights are getting brighter - but not in a...

Spread of light pollution is injurious for the environment,animal life and humans, five-year study...

us people of color still more likely to be exposed...

unusual federal government-funded study finds exposure to a key air pollutant is significantly...

uk government faces second court battle over air...

tall court to hear case against government’s ‘woefully inadequate’ plans to tackle air...

environmental risks killing 12.6 million people,...

One in four deaths avoidable as enviornmental factors contribute to over 100 diseases,with air...

take vehicles that fail diesel test off the...

Car industry and the government need to prove that cars can deliver clean emissions for the sake of...

revealed: british ministers tried to block eu...

Department of the Environment department advised MEPs to vote against tighter control of...

most polluting wood burner fuels due to get the...

Environment secretary Michael Gove to banish house coal to curb harmful emissionsMichael Gove,the...

london s black communities disproportionately...

Black,African and Caribbean people are exposed to higher illegal nitrogen dioxide levels than the...

benefits of cycling and walking outweigh air...

Study finds only 1% of cities in world enjoy such high levels of pollution that the activities could...

uk faces fresh legal challenge over weak plans to...

High court challenge could force government to rewrite measures to address illegal levels of toxic...

unilever settles dispute over mercury poisoning in...

Company has agreed to supply an undisclosed ex-gratia payment as allotment of deal to end dispute...

uk government told to take action on air pollution...

ClientEarth has sent a final warning letter to environment secretary,Liz Truss, giving her 10 days...

la gas leak: worst in us history spewed as much...

Emissions from Aliso Canyon leak,which took 112 days to plug, totalled 97100 tonnes of methane –...

uk pushing for limits on air pollution to be...

In papers seen by the Guardian,government calls for carmakers to be allowed to far exceed the...

mps call for diesel cars scrappage scheme to...

Environmental audit committee joins Boris Johnson in calling for payments to encourage people to...

the particle physics of clouds

One of the most complex problems of man-made climate change is what our activities are doing to the...

paris to stop traffic when air pollution spikes

Mayor wins long-running battle to introduce emergency traffic bans when pollution from vehicles...

four more carmakers join diesel emissions row

Mercedes-Benz,Honda, Mazda and Mitsubishi’s cars are shown to emit significantly more NOx...

china pollution levels hit 20 times safe limit

Visibility dropped dramatically as small pollutant particles reached unsafe levels in northern...

german court rules cities can ban diesel cars to...

Landmark ruling could cause traffic chaos and dramatically hit the value of diesel vehiclesOne of...

pollution killing half a million britons, says...

Labour leader attacks PMs record on green issues,saying destitute air quality is killing hundreds of...

pigeon patrol takes flight to tackle londons air...

Flock of racing pigeons equipped with pollution sensor and Twitter account select to the skies in...

uber supports clean air initiatives in london |...

We agree with your editorial (24 February) that more should to be done to tackle air pollution in...

vw scandal might spur new low emission car...

Deputy environment minister says country’s green image has not been harmed by scandal that could...

uk, germany and france lobbying for weakened cap...

MEPs outraged as biggest three European countries push for watered down nitrogen oxide targets ahead...

volkswagen uk boss promises to do the right thing...

Paul Willis tells environmental audit committee MPs that VW wants customers to know that they ‘do...

how ozone attacks our food

September marks the terminate of the UK’s summer and also the terminate of our risk period for...

gold king mine spill: navajo nation farmers...

Tribe’s crops suffer during search for alternative water sources despite EPA’s insistence that...

gold king mine spill threatens crops of navajo...

In August,the Environmental Protection Agency accidentally unleashed 3m gallons of contaminated...

google and ebay refuse to ban ads offering to...

Internet giants say removing diesel particulate filters which reduce toxic emissions is not...

what is behind the diesel cars emissions scandal?

All 93 vehicles tested in Germany and UK exceeded EU-set limits on air quality and pollution in...

four fifths of chinas water from wells unsafe...

Ministry’s samples from 2103 wells in eastern flatlands indicate none were considered pristine and...

petition urges uk government to ban plastic...

Greenpeace petition calling for UK to follow US and ban use of microbeads in cosmetics has collected...

saharan dust cloud bound for uk prompts health...

Older people,asthma sufferers and those with breathing difficulties are most at risk as pollution...

fireworks are fun - but the effects are not

The sparkles from fireworks last a few seconds but the air pollution can linger in our cities for...

bad earth: the human cost of pollution in china -...

This series of images shows the extent of China’s pollution problems and the human toll of...

glastonbury festival admits human waste polluted...

Festival founder Michael Eavis in court to hear accusations that protected trout were killed due to...

cutting diesel pollution puts climate change...

Boss of carmaker that cheated on tests of toxic NOx emissions downplays impact of scandal and says...

second saharan dust cloud to hit england and wales...

Cocktail of Saharan dust and diesel fumes prompts officials to issue health warning for Saturday as...

ec mulls adding pollutants to car labels

VW scandal could lead to change in labelling law that currently covers fuel consumption and CO2...

putting a price on nox health impacts

At the heart of the VW revelations are tests for exhaust emissions of nitrogen oxides. These are a...

in pictures: ten worst ecocides

From floating plastic islands and orbiting space junk to mountaintop removal and deep-sea mining,...

disturbing images show the extent of delhi s...

Delhi,the capital city of India and domestic to 25 million residents, is in the midst of an...

an enormous cloud of toxic sulfur is spreading...

During a fierce battle for control of the Iraqi city of Mosul final week,Islamic state fighters set...

greenpeace activists put gas mask on nelsons...

Nelson effigy and 17 other statues around London given bespoke gas masks to highlight need for...

essar oil fined £500k for cheshire pollution

Firm pleads guilty to two separate incidents,including five tonnes of oil entering the Manchester...

air pollution is killing people thanks to...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn presses David Cameron on air pollution during prime ministers questions...

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