UK air quality is improving but pollution targets are still being breached – new study
Researchers have analysed UK-wide trends for three major pollutants.
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Why Delhi is the world’s most polluted city – and what can be done about it
Air quality in the Indian capital is so bad that the government has instigated a vehicle ban.
Pollution, poverty and power: the real cost of environmental inequality in the UK
Cleaner air is progress, but injustice remains. Environmental racism still decides who breathes dirty air, who gets sick and who gets heard
London Underground polluted with particles small enough to enter the human bloodstream – new research
New research reveals that the London Underground is polluted with small particles which may carry negative health effects for humans.
Understanding the pollution that’s hurting our health
The visibly high levels of pollution southern England is experiencing have drawn all of our attention to the ill-effects bad air quality can have on our health. Wherever we live, there is always a risk…
Mental health: how living in the city and country compare
City living and country living both have their benefits and downsides when it comes to mental health.
Cornwall space launch: why the environmental cost of rocket launches is large even when they fail
The UK space launch failed but it succeeded in releasing hazardous pollutants to multiple layers of the atmosphere.
How ‘school streets’ could create safer, healthier cities
School streets close roads to motor traffic when children arrive at and leave school.
Beware China’s ‘anti‑smog tower’ and other plans to pull pollution from the air
China has built a skyscraper-sized purification tower. But it will only clean perhaps 0.01% of the air in the ‘atmospheric box’ sat over a city.
Greener but not cleaner? How trees can worsen urban air pollution
Poorly-placed trees can keep harmful emissions lingering at street level.
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