Health

For the first time in 16 years, the World Health Assembly adopted a new WHO resolution on climate and health at the end of May.

More than half of Europeans do not feel well informed about their local air quality, according to a 2019 EU Commission survey.

In spring 2019, London implemented an ultra-low emission zone (uLEZ) to tackle road transport air pollution.

The severe air pollution events in Delhi due to sharp economic and population growth have been widely reported.

Air pollution causes nearly 800,000 early deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal.

The life expectancy of children born today will be shortened by 20 months on average by breathing the toxic air that is widespread across the globe ...

Air pollution may be damaging men’s ability to perform in the bedroom, scientists warn. New research published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine ...

The European Commission has published a Future Brief that explores how to assign an economic value to the health impacts of three types of pollution ...

Every day around 93 per cent (1.8 billion) of the world’s children under the age of 15 years breathe air that is so polluted it puts their health and development at serious risk. For the year 2016, the WHO ...

Tackling climate change would save at least a million lives a year, says the World Health Organization. Reducing the burning of fossil fuels is ...

Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in many parts of the world. Nine out of ten people globally are breathing polluted air, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports ...

A study by the German Environment Agency (UBA) estimates that roughly 6,000 premature deaths in 2014 were due to cardiovascular diseases linked to background concentrations of NO₂ in both rural and urban areas.

Short-term exposures to tiny particles (PM_2.5) and ozone — even at levels well below current United States national safety standards ... 

Fossil fuel subsidies support an industry that causes premature deaths and ill-health worldwide – the health costs associated with fossil fuel use are more than sixfold the subsidies.

A nationwide US study of more than 60 million senior citizens linked long-term exposure to two main smog pollutants – ozone (O₃) and fine particulate matter (PM_2.5)..

Because ozone is transported over long distances, action to reduce ozone precursor pollutants is needed at local, national, regional and global scales.