Cyclists and bus users are subsidizing car drivers through sales taxes and property taxes: car drivers are freeloading on the public purse and public space.

(Getty Images/iStockphoto) The research, presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s annual meeting in Denver, raised urgent questions about the role of plastic pollution in pregnancy ...

“And it’s not an easy thing to measure.” Some plastic pollution enters the environment in already tiny pieces, called nurdles, which are melted down by the billions to make products each yea ...

Plastic pollution is no longer just an environmental issue, it’s now a human health concern. A startling new study from the University of New Mexico has found that microscopic plastic particles ...

TARRAGONA, Spain — European lawmakers this week started talks on how to solve an insidious facet of the plastic pollution crisis — one that's a brute reality for the Catalan province of Tarragona. The ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Feb. 3, 2025 — Long-term exposure to PM2.5, PM10, NO2 and ozone (O3) air pollution is associated with more hospital admissions for lower respiratory tract infections in ...

Twice a day, sirens sound at Cambodia's Chip Mong Insee cement kiln, warning limestone will soon be blasted from the karst ...

Microplastics in the Air May Be Leading to Lung and Colon Cancers Dec. 18, 2024 — Tires and degrading garbage shed tiny pieces of plastic into the air, creating a form of air pollution that ...

INFORMATION on plastic pollution provided by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) should give all humans cause for great concern. “Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full ...

Microplastic pollution is helping to drive the rise in killer superbugs, an Oxford study has found for the first time. The presence of tiny fragments of plastic in the environment has been shown ...

Two big plastic containers are being filled with 1,000 litres of icy water through a pump. Today they're dropping it over 16km of land shrouded in pollution ... that it will cool down the warm ...