Air Pollution

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As well as causing significant harm to human health, air pollution also stunts the growth of trees, one of the elements that can attenuate this typically urban environmental problem. Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have shown that …

Among the measures it is calling for is the adoption of a workplace exposure limit for diesel engine exhaust emissions. Air pollution is linked with up to 36,000 early deaths a year in the UK. It is considered the biggest environmental risk to public health.…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin "New Delhi, India - November 12, 2012. Daily street life in the early morning during extreme smog conditions. New Delhi air quality has plummeted over the last few years and is now considered so…

Big cities beset with gridlocked traffic, major regions producing coal, pockets of heavy industry encased by mountainsEurope's air pollution hotspots are clearly visible from space on most sunny weekdays. All across the continent, tens of millions of people …

Human-made air pollutants are likely the reason for a drop in precipitation from the Asian summer monsoon, according to new research. Rainfall from the Asian summer monsoon has been decreasing for the past 80 years, a decline unprecedented in the last 448 ye…

If you're in Amsterdam, you might see Google Street View cars driving around.  Google Despite almost half of Amsterdam's population biking to get to their destinations, air pollution is still a problem. Google is bringing two of Project Air View's Street Vi…

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New Delhi suffered a rare summer air pollution alert Monday as dust storms and heat over northern India took smog to hazardous levels. The world's most polluted capital city is blanketed in a toxic smog of car fumes, agricultural smoke and factory waste most…