A report by the European Audit Office says that EU cities may not meet a 30% reduction in traffic noise by 2030, and that three-quarters of them still have excessive nitrogen dioxide pollution that threatens public health.

Nickel mining in Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has led to a rise in respiratory illnesses and cancer in neighboring communities, with local residents protesting the government’s neglect of environmental and health risks. Indonesia, the world’s largest nickel producer, has accelerated development to meet demand for electric vehicle batteries, but lagging environmental measures have sparked controversy.

Satellite data for the year 2025 show that Arctic sea ice is at a record low for the same period, threatening the survival of polar bears and other species, and sea levels are rising faster than expected. The accelerated melting of Arctic sea ice has become a key indicator of global climate change, with impacts…

Project 2025: Proposed by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in the United States, Project 2025 advocates the abolition of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the elimination of the “30×30” marine conservation goal (to protect 30% of the sea area), and the revision of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, among others. Marine…

A BBC survey found that only 1,465 of the country’s 13,000 high-risk contaminated areas have been tested, leaving 11,000 areas unassessed for a long time. The contaminated areas include abandoned metal mines and landfill sites, where lead and arsenic levels in the soil seriously exceed the standards. Local authorities in Wales and England say funding…

The European Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA) recently released their second “Zero Pollution Monitoring and Outlook Report”. The report states that while air quality in many EU countries is better than the air quality standards set by the World Health Organization, the situation in member states such as Italy and Poland is worrying.…

Japanese civic groups held a press conference on March 3 to question the standards related to organofluorine compounds (OFCs) set by the Food Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office of Japan. In recent years, Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and other places have been exposed to a succession of excessive…

As of February 2025, nearly two years into the armed conflict in Sudan, 90% of healthcare facilities in the capital city of Khartoum have been paralyzed, drinking water contamination is at 76%, and more than 10,000 new cholera cases have been reported in a single week. More than 12.9 million people, or 27% of the…

Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka recorded the world’s most polluted air quality one Saturday morning, where the air was categorized as hazardous based on air quality and ranking of polluted cities, reports PTI. According to a study by the Center for Energy and Clean Air Research (CECAR), air pollution is responsible for 102,456 deaths in Bangladesh every…

On February 26, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a bulletin stating that an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections associated with energy-supplemented beverages in several U.S. states has resulted in 38 infections and 12 deaths, and that the affected energy-supplemented beverage brands have announced recalls of their products.