Smoke and dust nuisances can come from both domestic (such as barbeques, bonfires or a chimney) or commercial (such as construction sites or biomass heaters). We will investigate complaints of this ...

The effect of land pollution is the deposition of solid and liq­uid material on the land or under­ground in a manner that can con­taminate the soil and groundwater. It is the degradation of Earth’s ...

An armed Israeli stands guard as a hydraulic excavator uproots olive trees from a Palestinian property between the West Bank village of Jayyous and the nearby Israeli settlement of Zufim (Getty) “It’s ...

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In one of the first studies of its kind, scientists are investigating the effects of plastic pollution on donkeys in Kenya In one of the first studies of its kind, scientists from the University of ...

There are so many different types of pollution so when it comes to being 'eco-friendly' it's hard to know where to start. If you don't know what problem you could be contributing to the most, you ...