Environment / Pollution
Articles about Pollution, ordered by date. 
A broken system
Household Air Pollution causes over 13,000 deaths a year in Malawi – but it still can’t get on the country’s health agenda.
Sacrifice Zone: BP, Freeport and the West Papuan independence struggle
Connor Woodman reveals the ties that bind transnational mining companies to the Indonesian occupation.
‘We are slowly being killed by this mine’
The British-Australian mine of Cerro Matoso has been linked to birth defects, pollution, poverty and paramilitary pay-offs. Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik investigates.
Government garbage U-turn in Lebanon
The sanitation crisis is over, but the government faces further challenges, writes Habib Battah.
Universalizing environmental and human rights
As UN special rapporteur on the right to a healthy environment presents his report today, Doug Weir explains why this is especially important in armed conflict.
21st century COP out
A brief illustrated history of the climate negotiations by cartoonist Kate Evans.
In final hours thoughts turn to look at what 'winning' looks like in Paris
As rich countries declare ‘ambition’ while racing to weaken the text, some climate justice campaigners are turning their backs on the COP21 negotiations and looking elsewhere for hope, reports Morgan Curtis.
Two good days when crimes against nature were exposed
An extraordinary gathering of frontline communities in Paris has been presenting evidence of crimes against nature. Nigerian poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey reports.
Latest agreement at Paris climate talks ‘nowhere close to good enough’
Yet another draft Paris agreement was released Wednesday, and was immediately renounced by civil society, Adam Greenberg reports.
Will Paris promises lead to catastrophic warming?
The ‘high ambition coalition’ is really about undermining developing world groups, argues Nick Dearden.
COP21 and the carbon market menace
There is a diplomatic silence over carbon trading at COP21, but a Paris climate agreement could offer a lifeline to carbon ‘offsetting’ schemes, while new rules could help build a global carbon market, writes Oscar Reyes.
China's climate transition
Is the world's most populous country a climate villain or an environmental leader? Sam Geall investigates.
Coal? No thanks
In China large protests are taking place against coal pollution, writes Dinah Gardner
Fracking the world
Hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ – Big Oil’s newest way to extract natural gas from an exhausted planet – comes with a terrible environmental price tag. Joyce Nelson digs deeper.
This toxic life
They’re in our homes and our workplace, in the air we breathe and in the food we eat. Wayne Ellwood argues that toxic chemicals are changing the nature of nature.
Message in a bottle
It’s a fashion statement and an environmental nightmare. Zoe Cormier examines one of the most successful marketing ploys ever – bottled water.
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