Air pollution

A new study provides an overview and analysis of key scientific data regarding air pollution in China and helps understand ...

Threat to annul new emission limits for coal-fired power plants that could save more than 20,000 lives every year.

Every year about 7,500 lives could have been saved in the EU if diesel cars had emitted as little NOx as petrol cars.

Although transport is the main source, between a quarter and a third of London’s PM pollution comes from domestic wood burning.

China has announced that from 1 November 2017 it would stop domestic sales of diesel with sulphur content higher than 10 parts per millions (ppm), typically used by tractors and ships ...

A new report entitled “Urban PM_2.5 Atlas – Air quality in European cities” and produced by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides information on the levels ...

Polish lignite plant Belchatow and British coal plant Drax continue to dominate Europe’s most polluting point sources in 2015.

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 new study has compared official laboratory-test and on-road nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for 541 Euro 5 and Euro 6 diesel passenger cars, representing 145 of the most popular European models.

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

A new study by the Finnish Meteorological Institute provides detailed information on ship emissions by using real-time data on international shipping traffic. It calculated that global ship emissions in 2015 amounted to 831 million tonnes ...

Large combustion plants will have to meet new mandatory standards for the release of toxic air pollutants under the EU’s Industrial Emissions Directive from 2021.

Nitrogen in the air is one of the greatest threats to our wild plants, lichens and fungi, yet few people have even heard about it.

International trade has moved more than 750,000 air pollution-related deaths from regions that import goods to those that produce them.

Binding air quality standards are being flouted in more than 130 cities across 23 of the 28 EU member states, according to the European Commission’s Environmental Implementation Review.

When fully implemented in 2030, the directive will nearly halve the negative health impacts of air pollution, such as respiratory diseases and premature death.