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Pollution

April 2025

  • a river bend with barges floating on the waterway.

    The great Mississippi tops list of most endangered rivers amid fears over Trump rollbacks

  • Prepare to dive … research engineer Aurore Molé in a survival suit.

    Underwater Argonauts! The deep-sea scientists logging Med pollution – in pictures

  • A honey bee on a white flower

    Wildflowers could be absorbing toxic metals that pass on to bees, study finds

  • A waste discharge pipe.

    Water companies’ pollution incidents in England increased by 30% in 2024

  • Democracy and justice
    Green groups sue Trump administration over climate webpage removals

  • The age of extinction
    ‘It looks like I’ve gone 10 rounds with a boxer’: when hay fever becomes debilitating – and potentially deadly

  • Garbage bag giant fined $8.25m for falsely claiming products were recycled sea plastic

  • Observer letters
    It’s time to consign these giant SUVs to the rubbish heap of history

    Letters
  • Will global climate action be a casualty of Trump’s tariffs?

  • Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Yoda’ for scientists: the outsider ecologist whose ideas from the 80s just might fix our future

  • The age of extinction
    How heat, thunder, smog and new species are making hay fever worse

  • Science Weekly
    Streams of medicines: how Switzerland cleaned up its act – podcast

  • Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds

  • Campaigners find sewage pollution and E coli in Boat Race water

  • Science Weekly
    Streams of medicines: what’s hiding in the UK’s waterways? – podcast

  • Steppes and the city: how smog has become part of Mongolians’ way of life – in pictures

  • The Audio Long Read
    The Rainham volcano: a waste dump is constantly on fire in east London. Why will no one stop it? – podcast

  • ‘Polluting’ Silvertown tunnel is already out of date despite just opening, say campaigners

  • Disney’s Snow White had higher carbon emissions than the latest Fast & Furious film

  • Jury orders Chevron to pay more than $744m for destroying Louisiana wetlands

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