Air Pollution

It’s been 10 years since Uber revolutionized ride-hailing. 2019 was to be the year that consecrated a decade of tremendous growth with record-breaking IPOs. Unfortunately for the ride-hailing platforms, 2019 is actually about to become an annus horribilis. T…

Air pollution forced the closure of schools and universities in parts of Iran on Saturday, including Tehran, which was cloaked by a cloud of toxic smog, state media reported. The young and elderly and people with respiratory illnesses were warned to stay ind…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I am being lazy today because it is the Friday after Thanksgiving. –lambert Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “The…

South Korea will suspend up to a quarter of its coal-fired power plants in the next three months, even as demand for electricity peaks during the bitter winter, as it seeks to tackle air pollution, Seoul said Thursday. The world's 11th largest economy is str…

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Its a misconception that if your child is not going out, shes safe. (Source: Thinkstock/Getty) By Amol Arora The frequent declaration of holidays for schools by the government in the wake of rising air pollution has led to many questions in the minds of the…

A new wildfire has been blazing near Santa Barbara ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. The Cave Fire quickly burned through 4,262 acres since it started Monday afternoon—and it remains 0% contained as of midday Tuesday, according to the Los Padres National F…

The United Nations offered what it called "bleak" findings Tuesday as it warned that the world was headed toward global "extinction" and would need to increase its efforts "fivefold" if nations wanted to reach the temperature reduction goal outlined in the Pa…

Architects design giant air purifying towers to fight Delhis air pollution

Air pollutioneven at levels below national and international air quality guidelinesis associated with an increased risk of deaths in Canada, according to new UBC research. The study, published today in a Health Effects Institute (HEI) report, is the largest …