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People against pollution

Alice Bell reflects on what happens when communities help solve environmental problems, and whether citizen science can help fight industrial pollution today.

  • Article

How light pollution affects our circadian rhythms

Too much of the wrong sort of light can send our natural cycles off-kilter – is city life messing with your circadian rhythm?

  • Article

Silent threat

As Vanessa Peterson recovered from a frighteningly serious illness, she wondered whether it was linked to air quality. For many communities, she found, pollution is a political issue.

  • In pictures

Guilty chimneys and the threat to the air we breathe

Industrialisation brought visibly polluted air to the world’s cities, captured in various media from the 1800s. Angela Saward explores the methods used, and the messages the images conveyed.

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  • Another victim of the oil menace / issued by the Co-ordinating Committee on Oil Pollution of the Sea.
  • Another victim of the oil menace / issued by the Co-ordinating Committee on Oil Pollution of the Sea.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Go organic! : help wildlife, reduce pollution and grow food you can trust / The Henry Doubleday Research Association.
  • Fumes emitting from a coach, a smoker and a factory: pollution in Kenya. Colour lithograph by B. Obara/E.W. Ngunga for Ministry of Health Division of Health Education, ca. 2000.
  • Onania: or, the heinous sin of self-pollution and all its frightful consequences (in both sexes) considered with spiritual and physical advice to those who have already injured themselves by this abominable practice.
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Air Pollution and Health

Reading Room
Past

Part of The Evidence

  • Discussion

The Air We Breathe

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  • Youth event

Create a Youth Climate Manifesto

The Studio
Past

Part of A Breath of Fresh Air

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