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Sensory Overload

Trees bombarded by artificial lights retain their leaves longer than normal (Credit: Getty Images)
Sensory Overload

The driver of the 'insect apocalypse'

By Ally Hirschlag

The UN warns that the war in Ukraine could leave a "toxic legacy for generations to come" (Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/Getty Images)
Sensory Overload

The toxic legacy of the Ukraine war

By Anna Turns
Even low levels of daily exposure to air pollution can take its toll on our olfactory capabilities (Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Sensory Overload

Why our sense of smell is disappearing

By Tim Smedley
Pesticides contain toxic chemicals that can have wide-ranging effects on human's sensory organs and nervous system (Credit: Manjunath Kiran / Getty Images)
Sensory Overload

How pesticides harm human health

By Claudia Lee
Root vegetables such as carrots appear to absorb more microplastics than other fruit and vegetables (Credit: Nailia Schwarz/Alamy)
Sensory Overload

Why you are probably eating plastic

By Isabelle Gerretsen
Noise pollution threatens whale and dolphin populations by interrupting their normal behaviour and driving them away from areas where they breed and feed (Credit: Alamy)
Sensory Overload

The underwater sounds that can kill

By Anna Turns
The Milky Way rises over Lanyon Quoit, a neolithic burial chamber in Land's End, Cornwall (Credit: David Clapp/Getty)
Future Planet

The English town that welcomed the dark

By Frankie Adkins
An illustration of a boy with his fingers in his ears to block out traffic noise (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont/BBC)
Sensory Overload

The deafening noise harming children

By Olivia Howitt
The explosive growth of algal blooms is linked to rising temperatures and rising pollution (Credit: David-McNew / Getty Images)
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How dangerous is blue-green algae?

By Tim Smedley