Air quality

The EU Zero Pollution Stakeholder Platform held its second meeting on 25 April with a focus on health and the Zero Pollution Action Plan ...

The smoke from biomass burning causes severe health risks, including 450,000 premature deaths in children under five years of age.

The American Lung Association estimates large health benefits and healthcare cost savings from switching to zero-emission cars and trucks.

The UN Health Agency is calling for more action to reduce fossil fuels while the world is choking on the resulting harmful pollutants.

Across the world, 6.3 billion people – 82 per cent of the global population – live in areas where levels of PM2.5 exceed the ...

From 16 August, EU governments are required to comply with the revised best available techniques reference document for large combustion plants, known as the LCP BREF.

After a seven-year stretch of improvement, between 2016 and 2018 the amount of particulate matter air pollution rose ...

The European Commission’s science and knowledge service explains on its website how climate policy improves air quality and saves lives.

Authorities in the Indian capital New Delhi declared a public health emergency on 1 November and closed schools and all construction activity for a week ...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that France “systematically and persistently” breached EU limits for nitrogen dioxide ...

Since the introduction of an Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in April 2019, nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) concentrations in London have been cut by a third, according to a City Hall report.

On 25 July, the European Commission sent Bulgaria and Spain to court for repeatedly breaching EU air quality standards and failing to guarantee citizens’ right to clean air.

If the 18 countries covered by a recent study were to meet the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline for PM_2.5, 67,000 new cases of childhood asthma, accounting for 11 per cent of new diagnoses ...

On 26 June, the European Court of Justice ruled that citizens have the right to challenge the air pollution monitoring systems in their cities and that the competent courts ...

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.

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