Pollution
What you need to know about the gases, toxins, and garbage that make their way into water, air, and land.
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![Some ‘recycled’ product claims are mostly garbage](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/23/My-project-2023-03-23T190634.098.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
Some ‘recycled’ product claims are mostly garbage
![Cars in a traffic jam emitting exhaust.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/07/CarPollution.png?w=800)
Climate Change
Almost everyone in the world breathes unhealthy air
![Crane loading cargo onto ship at sunset](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/02/Depositphotos_38374709_L.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
Pandemic shipping took a heavy toll on the climate
![Smoke from the Ohio train derailment over a small house in East Palestine](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/28/ohio-train-derailment-east-palestine-pollution-acid-rain.jpg?w=779)
Climate Change
Is acid rain forming from the Ohio train derailment site?
![Pink pigeon in New York City wildlife rescue center that was dyed for gender reveal party](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/14/gender-reveal-party-stunt-pink-pigeon.png?w=742)
Climate Change
Gender reveal parties are turning nature pink and blue
![How companies greenwash their plastic pollution](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/23/My-project-72.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
How companies greenwash their plastic pollution
![Sediment running into a river in Alabama from a solar farm construction site. Aerial view.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/16/AL-Solar-sediment-flow-into-Chattahoochee-River_HenryMJacobs_09.28.2018-3-2.jpg?w=800)
Climate Change
The hard truth of building clean solar farms
![Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the stage at COP27 in Egypt](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/08/cop27-egypt-pakistan-floods-climate-finance.jpg?w=675)
Climate Change
Why the 1.5-degree-Celsius climate goal still matters
![The environmental argument for banning menthol cigarettes](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/07/tilt-g6cbcf2f92_1920.jpg?w=675)
Climate Change
The environmental argument for banning menthol cigarettes
![Industrial shot of an oil refinery plant](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/03/Depositphotos_1984135_L.jpg?w=600)
Climate Change
How Google Search is helping ‘greenwash’ oil companies
![People will throw away about 5.3 billion phones this year](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/13/Cellphones_369331530.jpg?w=675)
Climate Change
People will throw away about 5.3 billion phones this year
![Brown-skinned parent in green short and baby in pink onesie eating fruit in front of an open fridge, which is full of HFCs](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/30/hydrofluorocarbon-ban-us-refridgerant.jpg?w=674)
Climate Change
The US ban on hydrofluorocarbons is a climate game-changer
![Beach showers are washing pollutants into the ocean](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09/beach-shower.jpg?w=600)
Climate Change
Beach showers are washing pollutants into the ocean
![A mining company buys out homeowners to avoid cleanup](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/19/murray-new-mexico.jpg?w=600)
Climate Change