Air Pollution

High-risk areas are concentrated in townships and informal settlements, including Khayelitsha, Crossroads, Philippi and Gugulethu. A new study at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has produced the first high-resolution map of air pollution across the Cape Town metropolitan area. Its findings reveal a troubling reality: more than 40% of…

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 29: A group of people wear face masks to protect against air pollution as they walk past the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Washington DC region is under a "Code Red" air quality alert today due to smoke from…

THE Union for International Cancer Control has revealed that long-term exposure to air pollution significantly increases the risk of developing and dying from cancer. The union said that this underscored an urgent need for stronger environmental and public health policies. The finding is contained in a new global report titled…

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Scientific fieldwork does not always go as planned. Researchers often set out with a clear goal, but sometimes the data leads them somewhere unexpected. That is exactly what happened during a University of Colorado Boulder field study in an agricultural region of Oklahoma. The team was using advanced instruments to…

Minneapolis activists are escalating a decades-long fight by going on a hunger strike to demand that local officials shut down a polluting trash incinerator.  Residents have long opposed the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center, which burns waste to generate energy, for adding to toxic air pollution in a predominantly Black community…

At one time, the U.S. electricity grid ran mostly on coal. But coal-fired power plants have steadily been decommissioned. Power producers found the plants were too expensive to operate and carried risks tied to toxic air pollution, waste and climate-warming emissions. Then President Donald Trump returned to the White House…

New research revealed China's actions to clean up its air pollution impacted other areas of the globe. (Image credit: Getty Images / Stringer) China's significant reduction in air pollution may have had unexpected benefits in the Arctic: A new study shows that it diminished storms fueled by aerosols and, in…

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Skip to Main Content National News The sale of E15 is typically discontinued in the summer because it can contribute to harmful air pollution. FILE - A shadow is reflected on new pumps at Rich Bohnen's service station in Minneapolis on Oct. 28, 2013. (Jeff Wheeler/Minnesota Star Tribune via AP)…