Air Pollution

Reporting Highlights Unreliable Pollution Reports: For decades, some big polluters were allowed to estimate their emissions using methods the government knew were often unreliable. Real Pollution Levels: Air monitors at coke manufacturers, chemical plants and other industrial facilities showed far higher emissions than the estimates, records viewed by ProPublica show.…

Climate change may be causing long-term global wind speeds to slow down, a shift that will likely lead to a dangerous rise in local temperatures, worsening air pollution and disruption to renewable energy systems, Mongabay writer Sean Mowbray reported. A warming atmosphere is likely weakening the forces that govern wind…

Synopsis Delhi has undertaken cloud seeding efforts to combat severe air pollution. Three rounds of artificial rain attempts have been made. While rain has not yet been triggered, the operations have shown a reduction in particulate matter. The government is spending Rs 3.21 crore on this initiative. Further trials are…

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More people are getting sick due to sand and dust storms that are now more intense and frequent, contributor Sean Mowbray reported for Mongabay. The intensifying storms have exposed many millions more people to dangerous levels of particulate pollution across the world. In some regions, it has also triggered outbreaks…

Delhi conducted its first trial to address catastrophic air pollution with artificial rain, claiming success despite experts expressing scepticism. Air quality in the Indian capital plummeted to a “hazardous” level on Tuesday, after a night of heavy fireworks to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali worsened seasonal pollution. The capital…

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Air pollution remains one of Ghana’s deadliest public health threats, claiming over 32,000 lives in 2023, according to the State of Global Air 2025 report. The report, produced by the Health Effects Institute (HEI) in partnership with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), finds that air pollution accounted…

Air pollution was responsible for 7.9 million deaths in 2023, roughly one in every eight deaths worldwide, according to the latest State of Global Air Report 2025. The report, produced by the Health Effects Institute in partnership with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the NCD Alliance,…

Frontline community groups teamed up with national environmental organizations Wednesday to sue the Trump administration for letting chemical manufacturing plants off the hook for toxic, carcinogenic air pollution.  The lawsuit targets an executive action from July that gave 50 plants a two-year exemption from a Biden-era U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…