The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified outdoor air pollution as the most widespread environmental carcinogen. The IARC – a World Health Organisation...
Londoners are becoming increasingly concerned about dangerously high levels of air pollution in the capital, according to campaign groups and politicians, after a survey found that...
Reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases could save up to 3 million lives a year by 2100, a new study has suggested. The study, published in...
A decision on whether to begin fracking for shale gas in the Netherlands will not be taken for another 18 months until further research has been...
The Chinese government has launched a new plan to reduce the number of coal-fired power plants and improve air quality in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong regions....
Hundreds of stations that monitor air pollution across the UK could be shut down under government plans to cut costs and reform the Local Air Quality...
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”, the author HG Wells once said....
It was announced in June that the air in London was among some of the dirtiest in Europe, according to the Environment Agency. Jenny Jones, London assembly...
Air pollution from traffic exhaust fumes can cause lung cancer and heart failure, according to two reports published on Tuesday. Levels of pollution lower than those...
Climate change deniers and sceptics expend an enormous amount of energy attempting to debunk the overwhelming science on climate change and its human causes. Would the...
Air pollution in northern China reduces life expectancy by five-and-a-half years, compared to those in the less polluted south, according to a new study. The report,...
Pollution in China has reached such extreme levels that the authorities have proposed executing polluters, writes Clare Brook of WHEB Asset Management. A recent piece of...
Fifteen years ago today, Hong Kong ceased to be governed by Britain and became a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China. Nowadays, it...
It was 56 years ago today that a 25-year Medical Research Council study confirmed that smoking caused cancer. Tobacco firms rejected the assertion as a ‘matter...
Singapore’s pollution standards index has reached the hazardous level of 371, because of the illegal burning of forests in nearby Indonesia. Singapore’s prime minister Lee Hsien...