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Topic: Pollution

Young woman with her son protesting in the street. (Getty Images / FG Trade)

The moms fighting for climate justice

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A mixture of steam and pollutants are emitted from the Naughton coal-fired power plant November 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)

Energy data latest Trump and DOGE victim

Peter Elkind - ProPublica
A Vietnamese soldier stands next to a hazardous warning sign by a runway at Bien Hoa air base, on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, as US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis visits the former US air base on October 17, 2018. - The toxic legacy of the Vietnam War came under the spotlight again on October 17 when Mattis visits a former storage site for Agent Orange, which is blamed for birth defects and cancers among a million Vietnamese. (THOMAS WATKINS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump halted toxic Agent Orange cleanup

Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Brett Murphy, Le Van - ProPublica
MALIBU, CA - January 08: A Tesla is melted into the street above Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, CA on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. High winds escalated the spread of several blazes across Southern California. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

LA fires still an environmental crisis

Daria Solovieva
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Cooking skinless chicken breast with spices in an air fryer (Getty Images/Francisco Zeledon)

Worried about kitchen pollution? Air fry

Michael La Corte
Satellites Flying Around Earth (Getty Images/yucelyilmaz)

Scientists propose space junk cleanup

Matthew Rozsa
Hands holding microplastics on the beach (Getty Images/doble-d)

Microplastics linked to organ lesions

Matthew Rozsa
Diane Wilson patrolling Cox's Creek (Max Loeb)

How a fisher took on Big Plastic and won

Matthew Rozsa
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An aerial view shows plastic waste at a landfill on the outskirts of Bengaluru on November 23, 2024. (IDREES MOHAMMED/AFP via Getty Images)

Plastic treaty talks collapse

Matthew Rozsa
Salvadorean Samuel Fuentes, a farmer who lost his crops because of the drought, checks his corn field in the town of Usulutan, 110 km southeast from San Salvador, El Salvador on July 24, 2018. (OSCAR RIVERA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change is a pretext for fascism

Matthew Rozsa
Pouring a glass of water from a kitchen faucet. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

More people drinking "forever chemicals"

Matthew Rozsa
Water flow from a tap at a sink (Getty Images/Pornanun)

$10 billion to fix California's water

Vanessa G. Sánchez - KFF Health News
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Smoke is emitting from the chimneys at a brick factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 22, 2024. (Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"Alarm bells" over greenhouse gases

Matthew Rozsa
Smoke billows from one of many chemical plants in the area of Baton Rogue, Louisiana October 12, 2013. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

Citi behind environmental racism: report

Matthew Rozsa
Worker Observing Processing of Waste at Recycling Facility (Getty Images/AzmanJaka)

EPA rejects plastics industry’s math

Lisa Song - ProPublica
Athletes compete in the swimming race in the Seine during the women's individual triathlon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Pont Alexandre III on July 31, 2024 in Paris, France. (Martin Bureau - Pool/Getty Images)

Is the Seine clean enough to swim in?

Nardos Haile
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NW Iowa Little Sioux River (Getty Images/lynngrae)

Iowa floods bring risk of "fecal soup"

Marin Scotten
Plastic Pollution in the Ocean (Getty Images/Yunaidi Joepoet)

Scientists report plastic-eating fungus

Rae Hodge
Standing at the edge of the Klamath River in rural Northern California, a Yurok man leans into the river with his traditional dip net, about to land a salmon. (Getty Images/Justin Lewis)

Tire toxins are killing off salmon

Jim Robbins - KFF Health News
Employees of the Redux Recycling GmbH company sort batteries. (Carmen Jaspersen/picture alliance via Getty Images)

UN warns of silicon mountain of e-waste

Matthew Rozsa
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An Amazon package lies on a conveyor belt in the DHL package center. (Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Why isn't Amazon recycling its plastic?

Joseph Winters - Grist
Aerial view of the Interstate 10 junction with Highway 90 near downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. (Getty Images/Art Wager)

Racist legacy of a New Orleans highway

Drew Hawkins - KFF Health News
A Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) raises its large fluke as it dives in the Atlantic Ocean. (Getty Images/Velvetfish)

Whale songs are being drowned out

Matthew Rozsa
Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield) in "The Book of Clarence" (Legendary Entertainment)

Romans & the civically engineered death

Asha French
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