pollution

A federal judge also warned White House to tread carefully as it moves ahead with plans to revamp DC golf course A federal judge weighed into a dispute over Donald Trump ’s controversial plans to revamp a historic Washington DC golf course on Monday, warning the president’s administration to tread carefully as it also dumped “toxic” rubble from the demolished White House East Wing there. District…

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) offers a holistic framework to evaluate environmental impacts of road construction materials. Using recycled and secondary materials can significantly reduce emissions, energy use, and resource depletion supporting sustainable, circular infrastructure development.

A new study of the British Isles’ coastal ecosystems has revealed that nitrogen enrichment is significantly reducing the abundance and variety of marine life.

BEV sales jumped nearly 60% in April, taking total electric car registrations to more than 2m, says SMMT Business live – latest updates A recent jump in electric car sales in the UK is likely to be “tempered” by worries over rising inflation and energy prices caused by the Iran war, a leading industry body has warned. New car sales in the UK rose by 24% year on year to 149,247 in April, according…

Reduce unnecessary plastic waste and petroleum-based neoprene at your local break with the best sustainable wetsuits, sunglasses, and more.

NPHarvest, a Finnish cleantech company developing fertilizer inputs from liquid waste streams, has been selected to receive up to €1.2 million in funding from Business Finland. The post NPHarvest Launches Nutrient Recovery Pilot at German Biogas Plant appeared first on iGrow News .

The numbers came back wrong. Researchers at the University of New Mexico had been methodically working through preserved brain tissue, running the usual analyses on samples drawn from a cohort of donors spanning 2016 to 2024. What they found was not a trace signal or a statistical whisper. The human brain, it turned out, carries microplastic concentrations seven to thirty times higher than matche…

Tugboat tows carcass of ‘leviathan proportions’ 20km from Era beach to Bellambi boat ramp, attracting sharks, says councillor demanding inquiry Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Fishers, surfers and divers say they should have been warned about the towing of a huge whale carcass along a 20km stretch of coast south o…

Moving a 20-ton excavator across the ocean is nothing like shipping consumer goods. You’re dealing with extreme weight, corrosive salt air, and months of transit. For decades, the heavy machinery industry handled this the same way: thick timber crates, petroleum-based greases, and mountains of single-use plastic. It worked. It was also expensive, wasteful, and increasingly...

Ageing septic systems are easy to ignore until they fail. Most sit underground, out of sight, while homeowners focus on the roof, plumbing, garden, or beachside weather damage. But in coastal towns, an old septic system can become a quiet source of pollution. When a septic system fails, wastewater can leak into soil, groundwater, creeks,...

Exclusive: ‘Fish sludge’ in coastal waters now has nutrient levels equivalent to those in untreated effluent of country the size of Australia, report finds Norwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people each year, a report has found . Norway is the largest farmed salmon producer in the world , and…

Acidified oil wastewater contains high concentrations of phosphorus and organic pollutants, which not only pose environmental risks but also contain recoverable phosphorus resources. However, its complex matrix (high COD and acidic environment) poses great challenges to phosphorus recovery technologies. This study successfully developed a new phosphorus recovery strategy adapted to the wastewater…

The last several years have seen an increasing concern about the health effects of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or long-lasting “forever chemicals”) in consumer products and drinking water. As a persuasion and advice communication …

Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72668-2 Combining methane isotope measurements with satellite data shows recent methane growth is driven by stronger human emissions, with emissions redistributed toward tropical and subtropical regions, especially China and India

Tiny plastic particles drifting in Earth’s atmosphere could have a significant warming effect, a new study finds

A research project in Hawaii is turning recycled plastic waste into asphalt, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of marine debris and improve the state’s infrastructure. The program, called Nets-to-Roads, is run by Hawaii Pacific University’s Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR).  The CMDR pulls approximately 200 tons of plastic from the ocean each year,… The post Hawaiian researchers t…

A study published in Nature Climate Change looks at global warming contributions from airborne microplastics.    Dr Sam Harrison, Environmental Modeller, UK … read more

On Tuesday's show: We discuss the details surrounding a proposed fee for garbage pickup in Houston and the environmental effects of neglected trash pickup.