More than 85,000 complaints about odour from landfill sites were recorded across Great Britain in just four years, new data reveals — highlighting the growing impact of the country’s waste disposal crisis on communities living near these sites.
A new study suggests that as countries across Asia clean up their air, the South Asian summer monsoon, upon which over a billion people depend for water and agriculture, is likely to strengthen. But the size and even the direction of that change depends heavily on which country is doing the cleaning up.
At around 2pm today (10th July) the High Court is due to deliver its judgment in the Pan-NOx Group Litigation, the UK’s largest-ever group legal action, involving more than 1.6 million claimants against Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Renault/Nissan and Stellantis.
Scientists have unveiled a powerful new way to detect and measure formaldehyde in the atmosphere, a breakthrough that could improve air pollution monitoring and help researchers better understand the chemistry behind smog, ozone formation and wildfire emissions.