The Indo-Gangetic plains suffer from the Valley effect because they are the sunken parts thus the pollution which is generated do not get dissipated, Professor for Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru ...
National Pollution Control Day, observed on December 2, commemorates the Bhopal Gas Disaster and highlights pollution's severe health risks. Millions die prematurely annually from air pollution, ...
Thousands of people across parts of Oregon face unhealthy levels of air pollution on Tuesday, a live map from AirNow shows. The map showed an area of fine particle (PM2.5) pollution in the "unhealthy" ...
Importantly, air pollution is a perennial issue. It becomes most visible in the winter but the sources are active all year round and the levels are unacceptable for much of the year. Winter makes the ...
LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Degraded land, polluted air and water stress pose a direct global economic threat but using natural resources more efficiently could cut pollution by half, one of the World ...
PITTSFIELD — With climate change and weather patterns visibly affecting air quality, Drake Reed says people should be prepared for how to handle it. “There are a lot of different ways air pollution is ...
Photos of the Vietnamese capital, home to almost 9 million people, show the environmental cost of the Southeast Asian nation’s explosive growth. HANOI, Vietnam — Hanoi has no horizon. Blocky apartment ...
For 25 of the 26 years the American Lung Association has reported State of the Air, Los Angeles—pictured here in smog—has been declared the city with the worst ozone pollution in the United States.
Nearly half of the U.S. population is living with dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. The organization's 2025 "State of the Air" report ...
More Americans are being forced to breathe unhealthy air than at any other time in the past decade, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association. Nearly half of ...
As nights have gotten brighter, the list of health problems linked to artificial lighting has gotten longer, from insomnia to cancer. Lighting in urban areas like Chicago (shown) has gotten brighter ...
Leaders from around the world have gathered in Busan, South Korea this week in hopes of finally striking a global treaty to reduce the world’s growing level of plastic pollution. Negotiations began ...