Air pollution

Emissions of key air pollutants continue to decline across most EU countries, according to a new assessment published by the European Environment Agency (EEA) on 27 June 2025.

Ground-level ozone is an invisible air pollutant that causes significant damage to crops worldwide. Tackling methane emissions, one of the precursors, could be the key to curbing rising background levels of ozone.

Dutch politicians are considering reducing livestock numbers by almost a third over the next decade. The background is a court decision from 2019 ...

A court ruling has forced the Netherlands to promptly deal with its high nitrogen emissions. The government has decided to cut speed limits and farmers have rallied in the streets to protest against reducing livestock numbers.

Researchers have used daily satellite observations to identify point sources of ammonia emissions over the globe. They found 248 hotspots ...

Some types of change require long-term planning, new institutions, educating a new generation etc. Other things are so easy to do that they should have been implemented yesterday.

Over half of Europe’s most-polluting livestock farms receive CAP payments, as revealed in a new study from Greenpeace.

German greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture reached a low in 2007, at 62 million tonnes CO2e, and have since then increased to 65.5 million tonnes, according to a report ...

Ammonia has received some newly awakened attention in Northern Ireland, after a report “Making Ammonia Visible” was published in December by a working group commissioned ...

Three-quarters of EU ecosystems are currently exposed to more nitrogen deposition than they can cope with and nearly one-tenth is still receiving too much acid fallout.

Members of the US Environment Protection Agency’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) examining the ecological effects of nitrogen oxides, 

Direct payments to farmers are a driver for increased fertiliser use and higher animal intensity, and consequently increased environmental impact.

The first global, long-term satellite study of airborne ammonia gas has revealed increasing levels of the pollutant over four of the world’s most productive agricultural regions.

Greenhouse gas and nitrogen emissions from agriculture in the Nordic countries could be reduced by up to 80 per cent with a diet of purely organic produce from an almost self-sufficient food system.

Air pollution harms both human health and the environment. AirClim advocates for stricter policies to minimise emissions.