The Latest Breaking News from Pollution

Rising smog in Bangkok linked to car emissions, with authorities aiming to reduce private car use to curb pollution

The mayor of Nice is moving to ban large cruise ships from docking in its port, aiming to tackle pollution and overtourism. The decision mirrors Venice's 2021 ban, introduced to protect its fragile environment and infrastructure.

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi Singh is confident that the Aam Aadmi Party will return to power in the national capital. In an exclusive conversation with Sreenivasan Jain, she talks about her government’s efforts to tackle pollution, the jobs it had promised, her party’s “soft Hindutva”, its politics around Rohingya immigrants,…

“This campaign should be run during the UP elections too. Pollution in Noida and Greater Noida is as bad as Delhi’s. You should have this agenda during the Haryana polls too because Haryana’s air is equally bad.”

Thai authorities have made travel by public transport in Bangkok free for a week, the latest tactic to try to tackle soaring levels of air pollution that have already seen hundreds of schools closed and employees working from home

Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has ordered free public transport in Bangkok for one week, starting today, in response to worsening air pollution as dust levels have surged across all districts of the capital.

On his first day in office on Monday, President Donald Trump declared war on the electric car. In an executive order, Trump signaled his intention to roll back the $7,500 subsidy for clean-car purchases, loosen tailpipe pollution regulations and, broadly speaking, take a hatchet to Biden-era policies that are helping…

There is something cosy and appealing about settling down next to a roaring fire in winter but, every year, nearly 61,000 premature deaths in Europe are caused by air pollution as a result of people burning wood or coal to heat their homes.

Scottish researchers find childhood pollution a likely factor, but association with mid-life air quality less clear

Thai capital ranked as eighth-most polluted city worldwide as microparticles levels soar.

Air pollution in the Thai capital forced the closure of more than 350 schools on Friday, city authorities said, as Bangkok was ranked the world's seventh-most polluted major city by air quality monitor IQAir.