Current Issues - Toxins in the Air

Toxins in the Air

UK air quality strategy

Air quality status UK (Link to daily updated page)

Toxic air pollutants

Common air pollutants

US study links more than 200 diseases to pollution - 14th November 2004

How dead zones affect fish reproduction - 13th November 2004

Fear of river pollution prompts seminar on mobile sheep-dipping - 10th November 2004

Male fish producing eggs in Potomac River - 1st November 2004

Mercury facts - 30th October 2004

Wind farm environmental impact limited to construction period - 8th November 2004

Hong Kong dolphins lose the urge thanks to noise, pollution - 1st November 2004

Unregulated Nevada mines spew mercury - 30th October 2004

Greenhouse gases "threaten Australian way of life" - 5th July 2004

Government urged to act over aircraft pollution - 4th July 2004

Danger alert from fillings - mercury from crematoria smoke enters food chain - 1st July 2004

Will Caspian Sea become another Aral? - 28th June 2004

Air pollution from ocean vessels to continue - 24th June 2004

Oxygen starved oceanic dead zones creating marinelife crisis - 3rd June 2004

Pollution and land activities threaten our seas - 30th May 2004

Waste management needed to curb pollution in bay - 25th May 2004

Indian River Lagoon pollution could trigger human health problems - 24th May 2004

Marine Corps air station may endanger Okinawa dugong population - 23rd May 2004

Oil project is death knell for whales - 17th April 2004

Stricter regulations aim to protect marine ecosystems - 12th April 2004

EPA administrator can override industry set mercury abatement rules - 12th April 2004

Fish oil supplements may contain flame retardants - 17th March 2004

Animals’ Sexual Changes Linked to Waste, Chemicals - 1st March 2004

Bush Plan to Cut Mercury Emissions “Dangerously Inadequate” - 26th February 2004

Bush plan on mercury pollution called sell-out - 4th December 2003

Norway urged to reject oil plans - 22nd November 2003

Oil drilling gives cancer risk to North Sea fish, Norwegian study suggests - 20th November 2003

Commissioner Wallstrom's blood test is evidence of persistent chemicals - 6th November 2003

Agencies stand by as toxic US ghost fleet nears - 6th November 2003

UN donates £19m to clean up Russia's polluted Arctic shores - 23rd October 2003

Single-hull oil tankers banned from European ports - 21st October 2003

"Deep Trouble" -The Gulf in Peril - Naples Daily News 15 part series

includes video sequences posted 28th September to 12th October 2003

Environment Agency - NO to UK wet dock breaking of US ghost ships– 9th October 2003

Council tries to sink UK scrapping of the US “ghost fleet” - 8th October 2003

EU scientists legalize controversial herbicide - 6th October 2003

Environment Agency faces legal challenge over ghost fleet - 6th October 2003

New chemicals in Arctic’s toxic stew - 1st October 2003

EU softens chemicals bill, alarms green groups - 26th September 2003

Alarm over acidifying oceans - 25th September 2003

Ocean plant life slows down and absorbs less carbon - 17th September 2003

Risk of toxic leaks by US ghost fleet due for UK disposal – 12th September 2003

Toxic 'ghost fleet' to cross English Channel - 5th September 2003

Coral reefs “will die in decades” unless protected - 15th August 2003

Greens furious at 'toxic fleet' plan - 29th July 2003

Mercury Rising - EIA report mercury content of cetacean meat - pdf 379KB - 12th June 2003

European Parliament backs tough marine sulphur and electrical energy mix disclosure rules - 6th June 2003

EU parliament votes for less sulphur in ship fuel - 6th June 2003

American anglers warned to watch out for mercury - 5th June 2003

A Sea Change for U.S. Oceans Policy? - 4th June 2003

Coastal Waters: A Pattern of Distress - posted 4th June 2003

G8 leaders pledge marine protection and clean water - 3rd June 2003

High mercury levels found in rain - 29th May 2003

Ban -Hg - Wg demands Unilever halt toxic trade in mercury from India - 29th May 2003

Man-made chemicals are causing serious problems for wild animals - 29th May 2003

US Navy admits burning 600 000 gallons of radioactive fuel at S.F. Shipyard - 21st May 2003

Stop shipbreaking in Guinea Bissau - Send a message to Unesco now - posted 9th May 2003

Internet consult opens on new European chemicals law - 7th May 2003

The EU Chemical Strategy - working towards a sustainable approach - 7th May 2003

Germany launches world's first ship ecolabel - 26th November 2002