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Air pollution

July 2024

  • Emissions rise from smokestacks at a coal power plant

    Air pollution can decrease odds of live birth after IVF by 38%, study finds

    Research suggests impact of pollution begins before conception by disrupting the development of the egg

June 2024

  • Traffic drives along a multi-lane carriageway in London with houses next to it

    Pollutionwatch
    Air pollution clinic in London aims to help children with asthma

  • FedEx air freight cargo planes

    Air freight greenhouse gas emissions up 25% since 2019, analysis finds

  • An aerial view of piled-up train cars, with a fire raging in the middle of them and sending up plumes of black smoke, above farmland and woods.

    Norfolk Southern wrongly burned chemicals after Ohio train derailment, agency says

  • Commercial white van speeding

    Carbon emissions from vans still rising as UK drivers cling to diesel

  • Almost 2,000 children die every day from air pollution, report finds

  • Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised

  • Pollutionwatch
    Children near Amsterdam airport use inhalers more, study finds

  • Cancer town
    Air in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ likely more toxic than previously thought

  • Mexico’s new president ran on climate goals. Will she follow through?

May 2024

  • General view of Birmingham city centre skyline.

    Pollutionwatch
    Cleaner air in West Midlands could prevent 2,000 deaths a year, study finds

  • Cruise ships line up at the City Cruise Terminal, Southampton, Hampshire. P&amp;O MS Ventura, Saga Spirit of Adventure, and Seven Seas Splendor.<br>2K02AM2 Cruise ships line up at the City Cruise Terminal, Southampton, Hampshire. P&amp;O MS Ventura, Saga Spirit of Adventure, and Seven Seas Splendor.

    Ships in some UK port cities create more air pollution than cars

  • Aerial shot of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, covered in a thick blanket of smog.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Honduran city’s air pollution is almost 50 times higher than WHO guidelines

  • A man stands on the roof of a building as smoke billows from the chimney of a power plant at Ennore near Chennai, India, on 8 October 2021

    Pollutionwatch
    Targeting India’s most harmful power plants could slash mortality

  • ‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds

  • Methane emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors

April 2024

  • Two women ride bicycles in a cycle lane

    Cuts to England’s cycling and walking budget challenged in court

  • Sadiq Khan photographed outdoors with a blurred background of grass and trees; he is wearing a brown quilted anorak zipped up high under a dark blue jacket

    Sadiq Khan’s green credentials may be critical in London mayoral election

  • Steve Reed

    Britain’s natural landscape is in ruins – thanks to the Tories. Here’s how Labour will restore it

    Steve Reed
  • a hazy city skyline

    America's dirty divide
    More than one-third of people in the US exposed to harmful air pollution – report

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