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Pollution

July 2024

  • Jenny Quest is one of the citizen scientists who monitor water quality in the River Lavant.

    ‘People are incandescent…’ How sewage spills became a vote-winner for the Lib Dems

    Polluted chalk streams in England’s South Downs infuriated voters in Chichester, a seat that had been Conservative for a century
  • Leafy pond in East Lavant, near Chichester

    ‘Blue wall’ of Tory seats collapsed because of green issues, say Greenpeace

    Polling shows voters in south of England switched because of Conservative inaction on polluted rivers and beaches

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds

    • Ruling paves way for businesses and public to sue water firms over sewage

    • Pass notes
      Chalfont St Giles: why one of England’s best-kept villages absolutely stinks

30 June 2024

  • Blackpool beach last week.

    Observer letters
    Come on in – the water’s full of sewage

    The irony of publicising a seaside supplement next to a headline about effluent in the sea was not lost on readers

29 June 2024

  • Trees reflected in a tranquil river on a misty early morning

    Tory deputy chair dismissed sewage crisis as ‘political football’

  • A man on a rock above a beach with a wooden board in his hand

    The Great British Seaside
    From swimwear to toys: how to go plastic-free for a day at the beach

28 June 2024

  • An oil rig in the North Sea.

    North Sea oil and gas firm Perenco failing to seal old wells, documents show

    Fears of fire and environmental disaster as company repeatedly misses UK deadlines to decommission sites
  • Earth mover on an active landfill site.

    Landfills across England could be leaking harmful toxic ooze, warn experts

    More than 21,000 old sites may be releasing ‘forever chemicals’ into land often left as open space
  • Rebecca Currie holding her son Mathew

    ‘It’s a poison and it’s killing us’: the hidden dangers of old UK landfills

    With thousands of sites possibly leaking toxic chemicals, some people have already faced years of misery

27 June 2024

  • Rowers on the Henley Mile

    High levels of E coli found at Henley days before international regatta

  • power plant just after sunrise behind rows of trees and grass

    US supreme court puts hold on EPA attempt to reduce pollution that drifts across states

26 June 2024

  • Two people crouching in river talking animatedly, with group of people in river behind holding up Green Party signs.

    River Wye needs ‘protection zone’, say Greens and Fearnley-Whittingstall

  • An underwater view of a lot of plastic garbage, including a plastic bag, a plastic bottle and small bits of plastic.

    Big oil uncovered
    Plastics companies blocked mitigation efforts and may have broken US laws – study

  • FedEx air freight cargo planes

    Air freight greenhouse gas emissions up 25% since 2019, analysis finds

  • View of Windermere

    Lake District sewage campaigners launch nuisance complaint in legal first

25 June 2024

  • An aerial view of piled-up train cars, with a fire raging in the middle of them and sending up plumes of black smoke, above farmland and woods.

    Norfolk Southern wrongly burned chemicals after Ohio train derailment, agency says

    National Transportation Safety Board faults railroad company and contractors with unnecessary pollution
  • On a mission … X Trillion.

    X Trillion review – all-women voyage to the ‘Pacific garbage patch’ packs a rousing punch

    This film following a group travelling 3,000 miles to investigate plastic pollution reveals some shocking truths, even if it feels a little light on science
  • Thames river water Ripped paper illustration

    The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How Tory neglect flooded Britain’s rivers with sewage

    On a journey along the Thames – where fury at pollution has spawned a wave of local activism – it is clear that the decline of rivers is among this government’s worst legacies
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