As the UK recovers from its latest record-breaking heatwave, our Climate team today published UK Cooling Policy in a Warming World, an urgent call to action for the UK Government to adopt a national cooling action plan addressing both climate adaptation and mitigation. With the UK warming faster than the global average, heatwaves are becoming […]
Recent findings from an investigation by our colleagues at EIA US reveal a shocking truth about cobalt production in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt is an essential element in the manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles in the Global North – but its production in DRC has left communities grappling with severe respiratory issues […]
We are grateful for the additional contributions to this blog from Solomon Njoroge In December, I travelled to Kenya’s Dandora dumpsite outside the capital Nairobi with colleagues from EIA. We were there with a specific purpose – to understand what synthetic textile exports look like at the end of their journey. We did not […]
In recent years, nitrous oxide has gained attention as a significant environmental threat, yet many people remain unaware of its implications for the climate, the integrity of the Earth’s protective ozone layer and for human health. While nitrogen is essential for life, excessive reactive nitrogen results in substantial pollution issues … Podcast – What […]
A major pollution incident has occurred along the UK’s East Sussex coast, where millions of plastic biobeads have washed up on the shoreline at Camber Sands and neighbouring beaches following a failure at Southern Water’s Eastbourne wastewater treatment works. The company has admitted the spill was caused by a screening‐filter failure during heavy rainfall, which […]
The UK produces the second largest amount of plastic waste per capita globally, with an estimated 1.7 billion items of plastic discarded weekly – averaging 90 billion items per person each year. More than half of this material is incinerated, having risen from 46 per cent in 2022 to 58 per cent in 2024. This […]