Air Pollution

China’s solar panels would work better with less air pollution Kevin Frayer/Getty Images By Adam Vaughan Cleaning up Chinas hazy skies would increase electricity generation from the countrys vast array of solar panels by 13 per cent and provide billions of…

Air pollution in Birmingham may cut months off life expectancy

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Right now, most modern cities are able to track urban conditions like air pollution, noise levels, traffic, road conditions, and weather using either fixed monitoring stations or the occasional moving sensor mounted on municipal vehicles. But both of these ar…

Right now, most modern cities are able to track urban conditions like air pollution, noise levels, traffic, road conditions, and weather using either fixed monitoring stations or the occasional moving sensor mounted on municipal vehicles. But both of these ar…

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…