There's a new supermaterial in town, and while it might be known as white graphene, it doesn't contain a single atom of carbon. But that doesn't make the new form of boron nitride any less useful—because it can suck chemicals and oil out of contaminated water in a jiffy. Read More >>

The best way to deal with smog is to make less of it, but it's too late to just do that. And when it comes to cleaning up your already polluted air, mesh structures like this one in Mexico City are a stylish way to filter a whole city's worth of air. Read More >>

Otter dicks are shrinking thanks to pollution, and you should definitely freak out, because the trend might affect humans, too. Read More >>

You probably have seen the extreme smog in Beijing, so bad that you can observe it from space. But this shot freaked me out, just because it looks like a frame from Blade Runner. So awesome—if you don't live there, that is. [Twitter] Read More >>

Cars create a lot of pollution, but one in Chicago doesn't just give them free passage; it also cleans up after them. This street's special pavement actually feeds on smog. Read More >>

The public's apathy for electric vehicles might turn out to be a good thing if research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology is to be believed, with the thinkers claiming that charging chemical car batteries using electricity from coal-fired power stations generates more pollution than building and running regular petrol engine models. Read More >>

This is really bad. NASA has published an image of the pollution haze taking all over the North China Plain. Yes, it's so bad that you can see it taking over thousands of square miles from space. Read More >>

Cyclists travelling the car-filled streets of a city have one more hazard to worry about - black carbon from air pollution. Read More >>

A British study has concluded that people who ride their bikes to work may be inhaling 2.3 times more black carbon than those who walk. And you thought riding your bike was healthier. Read More >>