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Pollution

June 2026

  • Green algae on Saint-Michel-en-Grève Beach in Brittany. Photograph: François Lepage/Hans Lucas for The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed – podcast

    After a series of deaths on the beaches of Brittany, one bereaved family set out to prove the foul-smelling bloom was to blame

    By Marta Zaraska. Read by Lucy Bromilow
    Podcast32:01
  • An aerial view of Billings reservoir in São Paulo, showing the Jardim Apurá neighbourhood and Favela da Fumaça.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Good lord, what a smell’: can Brazil’s biggest city save a vital source of water from sewage, bacteria and organised crime?

    As São Paulo faces a climate-induced water crisis, campaigners are fighting to reverse the impact of pollution and illegal deforestation on its largest reservoir

    • There are thousands of dirty old drill sites in Colorado. The state gave oil firms a $1bn pass

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      It has the highest levels of toxic Pfas in drinking water in Scotland. But how did this remote island become awash with forever chemicals?

    • Wildfires devastating richer areas but fewer hectares burned globally – study

  • Children walking hand in hand on a pavement near traffic

    Pollutionwatch
    Air pollution slows lung growth during childhood, UK study shows

    Researchers find breathing more air pollution can slow lung development all the way up to early adulthood
  • A man with a loudspeaker wearing a shirt and jeans with a mouthpiece, and a woman in a floral dress looking at him with a lawnmower in her hand

    Pass notes
    Lawnmower hum: why the sound of the summer could cost you £5,000

    For some it’s ‘the music of May’. For others, it’s an antisocial irritation. But wherever you stand, be careful – or you could fall foul of the law
  • Someone out of focus lying down and looking at a purple petalled flower with a yellow centre among grass blades

    The aftermath
    Blossoming among spoil heaps: how 1,000 years of lead mining gave birth to banks of pansies and pennycress

    Calaminarian grassland is a rare habitat where plants thrive in soils contaminated by heavy metals. But should these toxic meadows be protected or allowed to fade away?
  • Alberto Alemanno

    double quotation markHow the plastic bottle cap became a parable for the value of EU regulation

    Alberto Alemanno
    Supporters of deregulation want Europe to be more like the US. But that would serve only American interests, says Alberto Alemanno, a professor of EU law
  • A person wearing an orange helmet in a mountainous environment

    ‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’

  • David Pocock

    The BHP files
    BHP ‘laughing’ at Australia’s key climate policy while pocketing hundreds of millions in tax breaks, Pocock says

  • An illustration of a BHP building in Perth surrounded by pollution

    The BHP files
    World’s biggest miner BHP backtracks on climate action with key projects put on ice, leaked documents reveal

  • Adam Morton

    The BHP files
    double quotation markAustralian taxpayers subsidise Big Mining’s use of fossil fuel to the tune of $4bn a year. It’s a strange way to tackle emissions

    Adam Morton
  • A truck carrying coal, split with a green colour and black smoke.

    The BHP files
    BHP defies its own climate strategy to spend hundreds of millions on polluting diesel trucks in Pilbara

  • A BHP sign on a building

    Full Story
    Exclusive: Leaked documents show BHP’s climate backtrack – Full Story podcast

    Podcast20:53

  • The BHP files
    Revealed: the internal BHP memo that slammed the brakes on world’s biggest miner’s climate push

  • The BHP files
    BHP files: leaked memo shows miner backtracking on key climate projects in Australia – video

    Video4:18

  • The BHP files
    BHP quietly scrapped plan to build Pilbara plant that would have drastically cut emissions

  • View downriver from the Brockweir Bridge

    River Wye granted rights in UK first that could help in fight against pollution

    Charter to be adopted along river’s entire catchment from Cambrian mountains to Chepstow and Bristol Channel
  • Water sprayed on chemical tankj

    California: 40,000 people ordered to evacuate over chemical leak fears

    Authorities in Orange county say tank holding methyl methacrylate ‘actively in crisis’ and urge residents to leave
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