Video doctor

A new antenna system can soon become a lifesaver for travellers taken ill

The memory remains

New-generation flight data recorders will give full details of an air crash

A smog project

Flying dirt

Boeing's new aircraft threatens to aggravate pollution

Thailand

Polluting ships

Measures to measure

White hope

Pollution disturbs cloud chemistry for good?

All for clean air

In Short

Clean air drive

Delhi's poor vulnerable to health risks due to air pollution

Count the soot

Black carbon from diesel, not from biomass, warms the globe

China takes more actions to control air pollution, India lags behind

From strengthening of existing monitoring systems to making hard policy decisions, China has handled the problem with an iron hand

SNIPPETS

Rotten eggs in our face

By depleting the soil's calcium stocks, acid rain is indirectly leading to defects in the eggs of a European bird

Lichens are reliable monitors of air pollution

Indian scientists have classified levels of atmospheric pollution using lichens.

Crash courses

Acid attack

Concerns about tackling the menace of acid rain grows in Japan

Climate convention generates heat and dust

India passes back the buck to industrialised nations as wranglings over the Climate Change protocol continue

Come stamp on my toes

BRAZIL

CHINA

Noxious cuts

Flight of fury

Dutch greens decry the expansion of Schiphol airport and jam the main runway, ready to face trial for high crime