Air Pollution

Air pollution could shorten a child's life by up to seven months says the first study conducted since new Government guidelines.  An eight-year-old child born in 2011 may die between two to seven months early if exposed over their lifetime to projected futur…

Lately there has been too much debate totally misguided, in my opinion over this super idea of One Nation, One Election. Regular readers of this column would know I dont use words like misguided lightly. So when I say misguided, I mean not that there should b…

Lately there has been too much debate totally misguided, in my opinion over this super idea of One Nation, One Election. Regular readers of this column would know I dont use words like misguided lightly. So when I say misguided, I mean not that there should b…

—The recent wildfires in California, the most intense and extensive in the states recorded history, have destroyed an area of more than 674,957 hectares, filling the area with smoke during an interminable week, sending air quality indicators to worrying level…

The Indonesian government is being sued for not doing enough to tackle air pollution. Last year, a study ranked Jakarta the most-polluted city in Southeast Asia. The government has undertaken to reduce air pollution, but a group of 31 Indonesians say that i…

Indonesian environmental campaigners have filed a lawsuit against their government for the worsening epidemic of air pollution in the capital. Jakarta consistently ranks highly in lists of cities with the most dangerous air in the world. AirVisual's Air Qual…

The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2018-19 in the Parliament today. The Survey states that India continues to target and maintain its economic growth, by introducing and implementing variou…

Image copyrightNASA Last week's record breaking heatwave across much of Europe was made "at least five times" more likely to happen by climate change, say scientists. Their rapid attribution study says that rising temperatures "super-charged" the event, mak…

MADRID — Thousands protested in Madrid on Saturday against the suspension of curbs on polluting cars by the new conservative city hall, raising fears that environmental rollbacks seen in the United States may be spreading to Europe. The first reversal of env…

Media captionProtesters gathered in Madrid, furious at the suspension of an anti-pollution plan Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Madrid on Saturday to oppose the newly elected conservative mayor's decision to reverse car pollution restrictions.…