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Residents across England are reporting nauseating smells from aging landfill sites that are causing health problems and raising serious concerns about toxic contamination of local water supplies. Jess Brown from Fleetwood, Lancashire, describes the persistent odor as resembling “animal excrement”…
In the stark, otherworldly landscape of Chile’s Atacama Desert, microbiologist Cristina Dorador is racing against time to discover new weapons in humanity’s battle against deadly superbugs. The world’s driest desert, where some weather stations have never recorded rainfall, may hold…
England’s privately-owned water companies have raised £10.5 billion since 2017 through “green bonds” – financial instruments supposedly tied to environmentally beneficial projects – even as they maintained a dismal track record of dumping sewage into rivers and waterways. The striking…
Utah becomes first state to legalize plug-in balcony solar panels for apartments as health groups petition EPA to stop crop antibiotic spraying over superbug fears. Plus: blood tests reveal widespread PFAS contamination and England's water companies raise billions through questionable green bonds.
The UK’s Labour government is set to impose stricter regulations on wood-burning stoves across England as part of ambitious new pollution reduction targets, according to an updated environmental improvement plan released Monday. Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds announced the enhanced restrictions…
Three major climate disasters unfold simultaneously: Hurricane Melissa triggers humanitarian crisis in Jamaica prompting UK emergency aid calls, Cyclone Ditwah claims 123 lives in Sri Lanka with 130 missing, while catastrophic monsoon floods across Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia kill over 350 people.
A groundbreaking aerial monitoring study has exposed that many commercial ships continue to violate air pollution regulations despite nearly two decades of international maritime controls. Researchers used aircraft to directly sample exhaust plumes from vessels at sea, revealing persistent violations…
Chicago-area contamination accidentally blocks dangerous crustaceans from Lake Michigan, while archaeologists uncover prehistoric landscape modification near Stonehenge. Meanwhile, climate summit progress in Brazil still falls short of global warming targets.
Rising temperatures create perfect conditions for ecosystem-damaging invasive species as EPA authority cuts threaten Charlotte with nearly 1,000 additional tons of annual air pollution. Meanwhile, Alabama Power delays rate hikes and Virginia postpones major gas plant decisions.
For countless generations, the Mohana people have called the waters of Lake Manchar home, earning them the nickname “bird people” for their seamless adaptation to life on Pakistan’s largest freshwater lake. In Sindh province, this indigenous community built their entire…
