Air Pollution

(Bloomberg) -- China’s lockdown measures to minimize further coronavirus infections have created one unexpected benefit -- a dramatic improvement to the nation’s air quality.Satellites operated by NASA and the European Space Agency have detected significant drops of major airborne pollutants above vast swathes of the country.Before-and-after images show how nitrogen…

New Yorkers use an estimated 23 billion plastic bags a year, and environmentalists are hoping the state’s plastic bag ban, which goes into effect March 1, will curb that number (and the subsequent majority of those plastic bags that end up in landfill). But that ban doesn’t mean that beginning…

The spike in air pollution levels forced authorities in New Delhi to shut schools twice New Delhi was the world's most polluted capital city for the second straight year in 2019, according to a Swiss-based group that gathers air-quality data globally. India was also home to 21 of the world's…

Last year, 117 of the 200 most polluted cities in the world were in China Nearly 90 percent of the 200 cities beset by the world's highest levels of deadly micro-pollution are in China and India, with most of the rest in Pakistan and Indonesia, researchers reported Tuesday. Taking population…

By: PTI | New Delhi | Published: February 24, 2020 3:44:26 pm NGO Greenpeace India lauded IMA’s crucial intervention in the fight against air pollution. (File)Expressing grave concerns over the worsening air quality, the IMA has written to Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, seeking inclusion of all non-attainment cities in the…

This morning (20 February) Extinction Rebellion staged a protest at London’s Science Museum, aiming to draw attention to the illegal levels of air pollution in the UK and their impact on young people’s health. Children as young as two joined the sit-in, or so-called “die-in”, wearing pollution masks designed by…

LINDEN, NEW JERSEY - DECEMBER 11: Smoke pours out of towers of the Phillips 66 Bayway oil refinery ... along the New Jersey Turnpike in Linden, New Jersey, December 11, 2019. The Phillips 66 Bayway Refinery is one of the largest air polluters in New Jersey producing 2.5 million metric…

Designed over the past 3 years in conjunction with the University of Sydney, brothers Isaac and Elias Honor teamed up with their friend Jack Graham to launch AusAir… a face-mask that’s preparing for a world where masks may become as ubiquitous as wearing sun-block every time you step out. What…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aerosol emissions from burning coal and wood are dangerous to human health, but it turns out that by cooling the Earth they also diminish global economic inequality, according to a new study by Carnegie's Yixuan Zheng, Geeta Persad, and Ken Caldeira, along with UC Irvine's Steven…

By: PTI | New Delhi | Published: February 18, 2020 12:49:51 pm Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said reduction in pollution levels will be among the top priority of the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation.(File)Newly appointed Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai has convened a high-level meeting of officers on February 20 to…