UK court blocks Heathrow expansion over climate concerns
LONDON (AP) — Campaigners won a court ruling Thursday to block the plan for a third runway at Heathrow Airport on enviro...
Scientists gather to study risk from microplastic pollution
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tiny bits of broken-down plastic smaller than a fraction of a grain of rice are turning up everywh...
South Sudan ignores reports on oil pollution, birth defects
PALOCH, South Sudan — The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated wi...
Getting the story of South Sudan’s devastating oil pollution
PALOCH, South Sudan — Air so foul it is hard to take a deep breath. Toxic chemicals seeping into the earth. Mothers giving birth to disabled children.
Asian demand for face masks soars on fears of Chinese virus
TOKYO — Panic and pollution drive the market for protective face masks, so business is booming in Asia, where fear of the virus from China is strainin...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s fusillade of misfires on fateful week
WASHINGTON — Abroad, at home and in Twitter's ether, President Donald Trump unleashed a fusillade of statements over the past week as the Senate impea...
Spain declares climate emergency, gets climate plan ready
MADRID — Spain’s new government declared a national climate emergency on Tuesday, taking a formal first step toward enacting ambitious measures to fig...
Michael Bloomberg outlines plans for cleaner buildings, cars
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg would push for all new cars to be electric by 2035 and new buildings to produ...
German prosecutors charge 6 more in VW emissions scandal
FRANKFURT, Germany — Prosecutors in Germany have filed charges against six more individuals in connection with Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal, ...
Notre Dame fire wakes the world up to dangers of lead dust
PARIS — It took a blaze that nearly destroyed Paris’ most famous cathedral to reveal a gap in global safety regulations for lead, a toxic building mat...
Scientists struggle to save seagrass from coastal pollution
DURHAM, N.H. — Peering over the side of his skiff anchored in the middle of New Hampshire’s Great Bay, Fred Short liked what he saw.
Feds: Seattle barrel company used hidden drain to pollute
SEATTLE — A century-old Seattle barrel company has been indicted along with its third-generation owner in what prosecutors describe as a long-running ...
Twin Metals Minnesota files formal mine plan with regulators
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Twin Metals Minnesota formally submitted a plan to regulators Wednesday for an underground copper-nickel mine near Ely in northeaste...
Global carbon pollution continues to rise, but more slowly
WASHINGTON — The world continues to increase the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide it pumps into the air, but it’s not rising as fast as in the p...
Schools closed in New Delhi as air quality dips for 3rd day
NEW DELHI — Schools in India’s capital are shut Thursday and Friday after a thick gray haze of noxious air enveloped the city for the third consecutiv...
Doctors: Warmer world is unhealthier place for children
WASHINGTON — Children are growing up in a warmer world that will hit them with more and different health problems than their parents experienced, an i...
Pacific bird refuge struggles as ocean garbage patch grows
MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands — Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pac...
Swedish princess urges Bosnia’s leaders to address pollution
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Swedish Crown Princess Victoria has urged Bosnian leaders to tackle their country's environmental problems, saying it's...
Schools reopen in New Delhi with air pollution falling
NEW DELHI — Schools have reopened in the Indian capital with toxic air level coming down by more than half since authorities declared a health emergen...
‘This city is not livable’: New Delhi people decry dirty air
NEW DELHI — Sakshi Chauhan has not left her house in a quiet inner-city slum in the Indian capital for the past six days on her doctor's orders.
Trump administration eases Obama-era rules on coal pollution
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration accelerated the pace of its environmental rollbacks for the country's coal-fired power plants Monday, proposing ...
India’s capital restricts cars as people choke in dirty air
NEW DELHI — Authorities in New Delhi are restricting private vehicles from the roads on alternating days to control vehicular pollution as people in t...