Air Pollution

Rooftops covered with grass, vegetable gardens, and lush foliage are now a common sight in many cities around the world. More and more private companies and city authorities are investing in green roofs, drawn to their wide-ranging benefits, which include sav…

The app that translates air pollution into cigarettes

Aspirin may lessen the negative effects of air pollution, an intriguing new study concludes. Researchers from Columbia, Harvard and Boston Universities analyzed a subset of data collected from 2,280 male veterans from the greater Boston area who were given t…

A dose of aspirin can do more than just soothe your headache, a new study suggestsit might also protect your lungs from air pollution. Air pollution harms our bodies in all sorts of ways, both short-term and long-term. One of these ways is through irritating…

Breathing dirty air can make you sick. But according to new research, it can also make you more aggressive. That's the conclusion from a set of studies recently authored by Colorado State University researchers in economics, atmospheric science and statistic…

We are all aware of the adverse levels of air pollution in public places, on the streets, in our cities, basically everywhere except our homes. But heres a little shocker; our homes arent completely free from aerial pollution….yet!  One of the many guaranteed…

Electric cars are held up by pretty much everyone as a viable solution to the emissions nightmare that is internal combustion engines as long as theyre adopted quickly enough, the electricity comes from renewable energy and we also drive a little bit less. Bu…

Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problemturns out, it just might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters. That is one of many new findings, released Wednesday, from the most comprehensive study to date …

As of Jan 1, a new International Maritime Organisation standard will seriously restrict the kind of air pollution that shipping vessels can emit; in response, the industry has invested more than $12b in "open-loop scrubbers," which capture the sulphur from he…

Image copyrightEPA Tractor-driving farmers taking to the streets to demand greater recognition have caused the worst ever Dutch morning rush hour on Tuesday, according to motoring organisation ANWB. There were 1,136km (700 miles) of jams at the morning peak…