Plastic pollution affects fundamental Earth systems, contributing to almost every pressing global environmental challenge.

Pollution levels in the Indian capital have reached 20-25 times more than the WHO's recommended safe limit. Long periods of air pollution will trigger three-day forecasts for those who sign up to ...

Imagine a toddler born five years ago in Delhi, breathing the air each day, through their first laugh, first steps, and the first words. This child may already have been exposed to a hazardous amount ...

Many sources of air pollution also produce greenhouse gas emissions. We are taking steps to reduce air pollution and fight climate change through establishing national air quality standards, making ...

Urban air pollution is made up of a complex mix of hundreds of substances including toxic air pollutants and criteria air contaminants such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulphur oxides (SOx), ozone (O3) ...

Adding one of the best air purifiers to your home is a great way to ensure cleaner, purer air, free from the kinds of allergens and general nasties that surround us daily. They can help lessen the ...

It is that time of the year again when the air pollution issue takes centre stage in discussions ... collation and estimation for major public health problems as this is a continuous cycle. This is ...

Every winter, Delhi-NCR chokes as much on the promises to cut air pollution as on pollution itself. Year after year, as the capital city’s air turns into a toxic haze, same old pledges of clean ...

Related: Pollution from rocket launches and burning satellites could cause the next environmental emergency Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at Harvard and Smithsonian and a leading space debris ...

Air Quality and Health Regional Advisor at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), about the health effects of air pollution and efforts to reduce exposure Air pollution is mainly caused by the ...

In June, the court halted the agency’s air-pollution-fighting “good neighbor” rule. Another ruling in June, overturning a decades-old decision known colloquially as Chevron, is also expected to make ...

Motivated by a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standard for air pollution, the team employed a model for fine-scale air pollution mapping using real-world data, and it indicates ...