Pollution
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After seven homes certified as lead-free were found to be contaminated, doubts over inspections mean 384 families have been urged to have their children tested
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EU study predicts 43% rise in NOx emissions from planes within two decades, due to increased air traffic
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Prosecutors had demanded prison terms for those on trial after alumina works disaster killed 10 and wrecked villages
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Group including past heads of RSPB and National Trust believe EU membership has positive effect on Britain’s natural habitat
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Breathing safe air is a fundamental human right all too often denied to people
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From supermarket bags to CDs, man-made waste has contaminated the entire globe, and become a marker of a new geological epoch
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Exclusive: Documents seen by the Guardian reveal questionable practices that mean people’s drinking water is at risk in ‘every major city east of the Mississippi’
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Mary Creagh: Strong progress made on everything from biodiversity to recycling will all be put at risk if the UK votes to leave the European Union
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Premature deaths attributed to particulate pollution rose in 2013 after falling in previous years, government figures show
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Judge deems evidence from shadow chancellor irrelevant in trial of 13 climate change protesters accused of blocking Heathrow runway in July last year
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Tehran Bureau End of sanctions may help Iran face an accelerating environmental crisis
Tom Lewis and Kaveh Madani for Tehran BureauThe lifting of sanctions will support positive change quickly if government funds are freed to tackle environmental challenges and if international investment is encouraged in green technology
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Environmentalists challenge government over uncontrolled practice of body disposal by Hindus, who consider the river sacred
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Official data shows coal use fell in 2015 across a wide range of measures as world’s largest polluter continues its transition to clean energy
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One refuse truck-worth of plastic is dumped into the sea every minute, and the situation is getting worse
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A recent spate of bad air days caused the Norwegian city to introduce a controversial alternate-day car ban. Yet research shows the burning of logs in homes is a far bigger contributor to Bergen’s pollution problems
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Pollution in some world cities is more than 12 times higher than safe levels. Maybe it explains why residents aren’t taking to the streets to complain
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She may be an outsider to succeed Boris Johnson, but the Green Party candidate seems determined to invigorate the debate about the capital’s future
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Renault announces it is working on technical plan to cut emissions from its cars, following raid on its facilities by French government’s investigators
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Loopholes in planned ‘real world’ tests allow cars to emit double the standard for NOx pollution and are ‘legally indefensible’ say MEPs, after new advice revealed
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Our correspondent’s children go to school in a car with air filters, in a city with a pollution hangover
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ENDS report: England set to break extended deadline to meet EU water pollution targets and already risks legal action for failing to meet original 2015 deadline
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Italian city’s mayor postpones daytime curb of pre-1999 motorcycles intended to reduce smog after #handsoffmyvespa social media campaign
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California gas company’s own samples from Porter Ranch community contained at least twice the amount of benzene that air regulators consider normal
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Boss of carmaker that cheated on tests of toxic NOx emissions downplays impact of scandal and says diesel vehicles needed to reduce CO2 levels
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