The Latest Breaking News from 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,…

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.

Flying through Bangkok's cloudless blue skies, a small aircraft sprays a white mist over a thick haze of pea soup smog below.

Iraqi grocery store owner Abu Amjad al-Zubaidi is grappling with asthma, a condition his doctor blames on emissions from a nearby power plant that fills his Baghdad neighbourhood with noxious smoke.

Existing policies to tackle environmental challenges fail to take into account that biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution are intertwined crises and produce compounding and intensifying impacts.