Air quality

It is no longer news that urban residents around the world are breathing unhealthy levels of pollution.

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

In July, the European Environment Agency (EEA) published its updated European City Air Quality Viewer report, which covers over 340 cities.

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.

On 11 October, 35 mayors pledged to deliver clean air for over 140 million people who live in their cities. By signing the C40 Clean Air Cities Declaration, the mayors recognise ...

Policies to improve air quality in the UK over the past 40 years have led to significant reductions in pollution and associated mortality rates, a new study has found.

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 ...

Smog in Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar is causing a public health crisis, especially among children, according to a new study by the United Nations Children’s Fund ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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.