Air Pollution

Nature has its own built-in alarm systems that alert us to environmental problems long before they become obvious. Known as “indicator species,” these creatures have special characteristics that make them especially sensitive to shifts in their surroundings. Some respond to air pollution, others to water quality changes, and still others…

The government of Limpopo’s plan to enforce compliance on air pollution reduction will become a reality with the launch of three state-of-the-art ambient air quality stations. As the custodians of improvement of air quality in the province, the Limpopo department of economic development, environment, and tourism’s Zaid Kalla said the…

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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…

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…

HONG KONG — Six of the world’s 10 most polluted cities are in India, while California has the worst air pollution in North America, a new report shows. New Delhi was the most polluted capital city globally, followed by N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, a country in central Africa with…

A view of vehicles amid smog along a highway in Multan, November 8, 2024. — Reuters Only seven countries met the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) air quality standards in 2024, according to new data released on Tuesday.  Researchers have warned that the fight against air pollution is set to become…

Industry minister suspends operations at four Samut Sakhon sites after air and water pollution complaints PUBLISHED : 8 Mar 2025 at 18:59 Listen to this article Officials inspect one of four recycling plants in Muang district of Samut Sakhon province following complaints about air pollution and leaking wastewater contaminating surrounding…

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…

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…