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Air pollution

July 2024

  • Traffic in Los Angeles

    Pollutionwatch
    Lower air pollution may help preserve older people’s independence – study

  • Emissions rise from smokestacks at a coal power plant

    Air pollution can decrease odds of live birth after IVF by 38%, study finds

June 2024

  • Traffic drives along a multi-lane carriageway in London with houses next to it

    Pollutionwatch
    Air pollution clinic in London aims to help children with asthma

  • FedEx air freight cargo planes

    Air freight greenhouse gas emissions up 25% since 2019, analysis finds

  • An aerial view of piled-up train cars, with a fire raging in the middle of them and sending up plumes of black smoke, above farmland and woods.

    Norfolk Southern wrongly burned chemicals after Ohio train derailment, agency says

  • Commercial white van speeding

    Carbon emissions from vans still rising as UK drivers cling to diesel

  • Almost 2,000 children die every day from air pollution, report finds

  • Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised

  • Pollutionwatch
    Children near Amsterdam airport use inhalers more, study finds

  • Cancer town
    Air in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ likely more toxic than previously thought

  • Mexico’s new president ran on climate goals. Will she follow through?

May 2024

  • General view of Birmingham city centre skyline.

    Pollutionwatch
    Cleaner air in West Midlands could prevent 2,000 deaths a year, study finds

  • Cruise ships line up at the City Cruise Terminal, Southampton, Hampshire. P&amp;O MS Ventura, Saga Spirit of Adventure, and Seven Seas Splendor.<br>2K02AM2 Cruise ships line up at the City Cruise Terminal, Southampton, Hampshire. P&amp;O MS Ventura, Saga Spirit of Adventure, and Seven Seas Splendor.

    Ships in some UK port cities create more air pollution than cars

  • Aerial shot of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, covered in a thick blanket of smog.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Honduran city’s air pollution is almost 50 times higher than WHO guidelines

  • A man stands on the roof of a building as smoke billows from the chimney of a power plant at Ennore near Chennai, India, on 8 October 2021

    Pollutionwatch
    Targeting India’s most harmful power plants could slash mortality

  • ‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds

  • Methane emissions from gas flaring being hidden from satellite monitors

April 2024

  • Two women ride bicycles in a cycle lane

    Cuts to England’s cycling and walking budget challenged in court

    Campaigners say loss of £200m from active travel budget is illegal and resulted from Treasury pressure
  • Sadiq Khan photographed outdoors with a blurred background of grass and trees; he is wearing a brown quilted anorak zipped up high under a dark blue jacket

    Sadiq Khan’s green credentials may be critical in London mayoral election

    As mayor aims to win third term, what has he achieved so far on air pollution, the climate crisis and nature?
  • Steve Reed

    Britain’s natural landscape is in ruins – thanks to the Tories. Here’s how Labour will restore it

    Steve Reed
    Sewage pollutes our waterways, species face extinction. We must act fast to halt the decline – and we will, writes the shadow environment secretary, Steve Reed
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