2025 New Year’s Fireworks: A Silent Alarm for Environmental Pollution

During the New Year 2025 celebrations, fireworks set off around the world can be harmful to human and animal health as well as the environment. Pollutants from fireworks can reduce air quality and damage lungs, and the particulate matter they produce can lead to heart attacks, strokes and premature deaths, among other things. In addition, toxic chemicals from fireworks can enter waterways, packaging materials that are not recycled can produce microplastics, and noise pollution can frighten and harm wildlife, among other things.