Pollution

WEATHER EYE

It was 70 years ago that London was blotted out by a smog so thick that people could barely see their own feet and traffic was reduced to a crawl. Smog even seeped inside homes, and theatres and

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Germany paid Russia more than €12 billion for fossil fuels and remained Moscow’s largest client for natural gas over the first hundred days of the war in Ukraine, an analysis has found. Over the same

The number of people with respiratory diseases would fall by 150,000 a year by 2030 if the government delivered on promises to improve air quality, a study has found. The report strengthens the case

Wood-burning stoves produce more fine particle pollution than all the road traffic in Britain, according to new government data. Over the past ten years, have

Falling air pollution is linked with slower rates of cognitive decline among older people and may help to fend off conditions such as dementia, a study has suggested. The research involved more than

Improving air quality reduces the risk of dementia in elderly women, a study has found. Previous research found that living in a polluted area increased the risk of developing dementia. The new study

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The average person may be breathing in 7,000 tiny pieces of toxic plastic at home every day ( ). These microplastics have been found everywhere on Earth that researchers have looked

Agriculture is a bigger contributor to the most dangerous form of air pollution in the UK than traffic, research suggests. The study found that ammonia, about 90 per cent of which comes from manure

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Microplastics have been found in the blood of cows and pigs in a study that raises questions over the food chain. Research at Vrije University in Amsterdam is believed to be the first to show that

Campaigners want to ban the sale of wood-burning stoves as figures reveal that councils rarely fine owners for breaching air pollution limits. An investigation has found that only one in a thousand