Air Clean Up

Are poor people more likely to suffer the ill-effects of air pollution than their rich counterparts? That certainly seems to be the case at least in Australi...

Prolonged and regular exposure to air pollution has a permanent impact on children’s lungs, according to a major new study from London. Focusing on the are...

The director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has claimed that air pollution is the “new tobacco” and represents the next great crisis faci...

They may look like plants, but lichens are actually a complicated and unusual mix of algae and fungi. When taking root on a substance, the alga (or cyanobact...

Dirty snow, caused by soot from fires, dust from soil and, most commonly of all, pollution from industrial power plants and factories, has become more and mo...

At the beginning of the year, Singapore implemented a smoking ban along a two-mile stretch of one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city-state, Orchard Roa...

With more than five years now having passed since China declared war on pollution in 2018, the country is reporting very encouraging progress on targeting po...

The issue of manmade pollution and climate change is one that is now at the forefront of mainstream consciousness, thanks to media coverage, environmental ca...