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Smog bound Indian cities dominate global air pollution rankings despite slight improvement Air Pollution

Smog bound Indian cities dominate global air pollution rankings despite slight improvement

A general view shows the Signature Bridge over the Yamuna River on a smoggy winter morning in New Delhi on December 20, 2024. Despite an improvement in 2024, India again dominated global rankings for the cities with the most dangerous particle smog while Chad was the most polluted country, according…
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March 12, 2025
Majority Of Earth’s Population Breathes Dirty Air, Report Says Air Pollution

Majority Of Earth’s Population Breathes Dirty Air, Report Says

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found. Switzerland-based air quality monitoring database IQAir analyzed data from 40,000 air quality monitoring stations in 138 countries and found that Chad, Congo, Bangladesh, Pakistan and…
bubmag
March 11, 2025
She’s an Environmental Toxicologist, and She Uses an Awesome Van to Do Her Job Air Pollution

She’s an Environmental Toxicologist, and She Uses an Awesome Van to Do Her Job

Mobile news broadcast vans chase stories, and ice cream vans sell cones, but Natalie Johnson’s Mobile Responding to Air Pollution in Disasters—or mRAPiD—van is after something a bit more prolific than that: the literal air we breathe. Or, rather, what’s in the air. Plus, arming a van with a hypersensitive…
bubmag
March 7, 2025
Ulez expansion to Greater London boundary has driven air pollution down, TfL reveals Air Pollution

Ulez expansion to Greater London boundary has driven air pollution down, TfL reveals

The expansion of the Ulez ultra-low emission zone to the Greater London boundary has been slightly more successful than first thought at cleaning up toxic air emissions from vehicles. A new analysis based on the first year of the expansion found that levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) – which is…
bubmag
March 7, 2025
Air Pollution May Cause Alzheimer’s Disease, But There May be a Solution Air Pollution

Air Pollution May Cause Alzheimer’s Disease, But There May be a Solution

While the connection between air pollution and lung disease could appear obvious, the link between breathing in toxins and suffering memory loss looks about as clear as a cloud of cigarette smoke. Scientists at Scripps Research Institute first identified how contaminants in smog, pesticides, and other airborne chemical can affect…
bubmag
February 28, 2025