Global fast fashion brands are helping drive pollution that has dyed African rivers blue or turned their waters as alkaline as bleach, according to a report published on Tuesday.

This pollution contaminates soils, streams, drinking water sources, and wildlife habitats. A significant and growing proportion of plastic waste ultimately ends up in the ocean, accumulating at an ...

Africa's worst drought tied to West's pollution Global precipitation change between 1931 to 1950 and 1961 to1980. The African Sahel, center, is much drier, while East Africa and East Brazil are ...

What’s known. Air pollution is a complex mixture of many components.. The WHO’s air quality guidelines, as well as country-specific laws, have identified a few air pollutant components ...

"The ten largest NO2 point sources identified in Africa are all thermal power stations, with nine in South Africa owned by ESKOM and the tenth in Côte d'Ivoire".

Some 50 international brands that source clothes from African nations, including Inditex's Zara, ASOS and H&M, have been linked with water pollution ...