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Pollution

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

24 June 2024

  • A heron on the bank of a river

    Citizen testing finds 75% of rivers in Britain in poor ecological health

    Data collected by thousands of volunteers reveals ‘truly disturbing’ state of rivers from nutrient pollution

22 June 2024

  • Protesters from campaign group Surfers Against Sewage

    Revealed: the ‘catastrophic scale’ of sewage spills in England and Wales

    Water companies have logged five sewage spills a day, every day, for a decade, analysis by the Observer shows
  • Chris Packham and Emma Thompson take part in the Restore Nature Now protest in London.

    Thousands march in London to urge leaders to tackle wildlife crisis

    Protest features 350 environmental groups demanding more robust action on UK wildlife loss
  • Commercial white van speeding

    Carbon emissions from vans still rising as UK drivers cling to diesel

    Costly new vehicles, limited choice and scarce charging points are holding back a switch to electric by businesses

19 June 2024

  • A glass dish containing a pile of microplastics

    Microplastic discovery in penises raises erectile dysfunction questions

    The contaminants have also recently been found in testes and semen, amid concerns about falling male fertility
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