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pollution

cars

Health

Driving a car in the city should be the new smoking

Banning cars from city centres used to be unthinkable – but evidence of the harms they do, and the huge benefits of getting rid of them, mean we should think it

Leader

orca

Life

Pollution threatens to wipe out half of all orca communities

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mosquito larvae

Environment

Mosquitoes are eating plastic and spreading it to new food chains

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young turtle

Environment

Just one tiny piece of plastic may be enough to kill a baby turtle

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A giant pool noodle to clean up ocean plastic launches today

Environment

A giant pool noodle to clean up ocean plastic launches today

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Two people push children in prams

Technology

Babies are at risk from air pollution but some pram designs can help

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Breathing polluted air may make you worse at maths and language

Health

Breathing polluted air may make you worse at maths and language

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London traffic

Health

We cannot breathe easily when deadly air threatens young children

Leader

message board

Health

The death of 9-year-old girl may be a tipping point for air pollution

Insight

Cocaine in the water makes eels hyperactive and damages muscles

Earth

Cocaine in the water makes eels hyperactive and damages muscles

There are low levels of cocaine and other drugs in many rivers, and lab studies suggest that European eels are suffering muscle damage as a result

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Earth

Mystery ozone-destroying gases linked to badly recycled fridges

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Earth

Why the UK’s plan to tackle air pollution is mostly hot air

Analysis

Earth

A third of ‘protected’ nature zones are quietly being ruined

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Earth

Someone is wrecking the ozone layer again. They must be stopped

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