Pollution

As international negotiators committed to hammering out a draft treaty by November on ending plastic pollution, the UN chief stressed in his message for World Environment Day on Monday, the importance of curbing the “catastrophic”…

The fish market of Keratsini, west of Athens, is abuzz in the early morning, with trawlers disgorging crates of sardines and anchovies as trucks await nearby to be loaded. But on his family’s fishing boat, Lefteris Arapakis sorts out a…

Brazil has sunk a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean despite concerns expressed by environmental groups that the ageing warship was packed with toxic materials. The “planned and controlled sinking occurred late in the…

The US research body says PM2.5 pollution is reducing life expectancy in one of the world’s most polluted cities by nearly a decade. Microscopic air pollution caused mostly by burning fossil fuels is reducing life expectancy by nearly 10…