Today a petition demanding air quality monitors near schools will be handed in to Downing Street by fifteen children today, alongside the British Lung Foundation (BLF)....
Friends of the Earth Air Pollution Campaigner, Jenny Bates, has commented on a European Heart Journal Study that shows high blood pressure can be caused by...
Friends of the Earth say that Ministers must phase out diesel to reduce deaths from air pollution as Government is due back in court today to...
Almost half of the world’s population still uses open fires to cook their food risking a number of diseases because of their exposure to air pollution, explains Nathalia Hentze...
Asthma sufferers are dying because of failings within the health system, according to the National Review of Asthma Deaths. Air pollution from burning fossil fuels has...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that one in eight total global deaths in 2012 was been caused by air pollutants, which resulted in a...
Disregard for pollution law from China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, is having destructive effects on the country’s rivers and land – not to mention...
The Chinese government is being sued by a resident of the northern city of Shijiazhuang, who claims the region’s Environmental Protection Bureau is shunning its responsibilities...
A leading US investment analyst has downgraded his rating of Apple, Amazon and tobacco firm Philip Morris on moral and ethical grounds. Ronnie Moas of StandPoint...
An unnamed eight-year-old girl has become the youngest person in China to be diagnosed with lung cancer, with her doctor saying that air pollution is to...
The health risks of smoking are well-documented in the western world. It is a potentially deadly habit, dangerous not just to smokers but the people around...
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...
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...
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...
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...