Africa's tropical belt, defined by the Guinean forests of west Africa and the Congo Basin of central Africa, is globally ...

Thousands of tonnes of toxic waste lie buried beneath one of Europe’s most important groundwater reserves in the town of ...

EU environment and climate ministers meeting in Denmark on Thursday tested their blood for "forever chemicals" linked to ...

According to the European Environment Agency, about 110 million people in Europe are exposed to harmful noise pollution that results in at least 66,000 premature deaths a year.

As the cost of spraying crops with pesticides becomes increasingly expensive, farmers in Greece's agricultural heartland have ...

We now have the ability to rapidly assess the death toll of climate change after extreme heat – a first-of-its-kind analysis ...

Yet, this is not just a European problem. While Europe is currently warming faster than any other continent during summer, ...

Have you ever noticed the strange, colorful splotches clinging to rocks, tree bark, or even old fences after a rainy day?

Dutch scientists are putting together remarkable maps showing pollution over Europe and other regions of the globe. Using the US space agency's Aura satellite, the team can look right down to the ...

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has carried another day of poor air quality south of the border to the American Midwest.

In December 2020, a second inquest found that air pollution was a contributing factor in Ella’s death, along with acute respiratory failure and severe asthma.

Pollution is a worldwide problem which does not respect national boundaries and is likely to intensify as the spread of industrial development continues. BBC News looks at some of the places around ...