POLLUTION

COLOMBIA

Car ban on 'holy day'

In a bid to combat air pollution, authorities in Italy have banned the use of cars on Sundays

Guilty of non-compliance

Air pollution

MERCURY DISPUTE

POLLUTERS TO BE FINED

Cheaper seats clogged veins

Cramped economy class seats and long distance flights is a deadly combination for many

Carbon trap

Use of carbon dioxide in oil recovery continues riding a slithery path

Brakes put on car use

In Court

Norms in place

Kathmandu's poor air quality

F(ired)-gases

Lethal legacy

Air pollution linked to inherited genetic mutations

Zeroing in

On fine particulate matter emissions

The ambient air we breathe

Every year, its quality is measured. Every year, data seems compromised.

When science showed in the 1970s that gas stoves produced harmful indoor air pollution, the industry reached for tobacco’s PR playbook

Industry-funded studies successfully muddied the waters and stalled further federal investigations or regulations addressing gas stove safety

A milestone: India to regulate real driving emissions from new vehicles today onwards

Vehicles will get tested for real driving emissions in real traffic conditions from today onwards to ensure durable emissions performance and to …

Half of world’s cities had PM2.5 levels above least-stringent WHO standards last decade: Report

India and Indonesia recorded the most severe increase in PM2.5 pollution while China saw the greatest improvements

Air pollution will harm brain development, 9 of 10 people breathe polluted air

Annual loss in human capital arising from mental health conditions in children aged 0-19 is $387.2 billion

Growing evidence for COVID-19 being seasonal, thrives better in wintertime conditions: WMO

Link emerging between long-term exposure to air pollution and severe COVID-19 infection can be bad for India, WMO study

Air pollution in fast-growing African cities presents a risk of premature death

Biomass burning dominated Africa’s air-pollution cause-list for centuries; this is now changing, at least in cities

Winter pollution: 80% daily PM2.5 levels in Delhi-NCR from non-stubble sources

Delhi’s air this winter was slightly cleaner than previous years, but still extremely unhealthy

Why the clean air movement remembers Rahul Bajaj

The first generation transition from highly polluting two-stroke technology to cleaner technology pathways needed committed industry leadership