Air Pollution
Redlining’s Legacy Endures as 45 Million Americans Breathe Polluted Air: Study
"Racism from the 1930s, and racist actions by people who are no longer alive, are still influencing inequality in air pollution exposure today," the...
The most dangerous air in Europe
The West Balkans
Dec 11, 2021
In Tuzla, Bosnia, a coal-fired power plant has long posed a danger both to the surrounding environment and to the...
Greece battles deadly wildfires near Athens and on Evia island
Aug 6, 2021
Greece carried out mass evacuations overnight in the northern suburbs of Athens and on the nearby island of Evia as wind whipped...
‘Invisible killer’: fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research...
Pollution from power plants, vehicles and other sources accounted for one in five of all deaths that year, more detailed analysis reveals
By Oliver Milman
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After their attacks on climate science, industrial lobbyists target the scientific...
by Olivier Petitjean
6 February 2018
A nebulous coalition of industry-sponsored players, deregulation lobbyists and the far right has formed to deny or downplay the health...
Planetary boundaries
Planetary boundaries is a concept involving Earth system processes which contain environmental boundaries, proposed in 2009 by a group of Earth system and environmental...
U.N. warns of millions of premature deaths by 2050 due to...
March 13, 2019
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Environmental damage caused by man-made activities is having a devastating toll on human health, the United Nations...
‘Better kill them with explosives!’ India’s Supreme Court says air pollution...
26 Nov, 2019
India’s Supreme Court said New Delhi’s staggeringly poor air quality was akin to a “gas chamber” which “suffocates” residents, and slammed both...
Climate Scientist: California Wildfires Are Faster, Stronger, Deadlier & Will Continue...
August 02, 2018
In California, tens of thousands of residents have been forced to evacuate as deadly wildfires continue to rage across the state. The...
Pollution automobile : des villes attaquent la Commission européenne en justice
Par Dominique Pialot
15/05/2018
Capitales d'États sous le coup de condamnations pour non-respect des normes européennes de qualité de l’air, les villes de Paris, Bruxelles...