Twelve UK cities and urban areas may have to ban or fine heavily polluting traffic from their centres within months after the European commission refused to allow Britain more time to reduce danger

With car ridership set to boom by 106 per cent, Delhi's air pollution and congestion crisis is bound to worsen, warns a survey by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).

China told foreign embassies Tuesday to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular US Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smog

NOAA reported that six other arctic monitoring stations in their international cooperative air sampling network have reported CO2 concentrations of 400 ppm this spring.

Authorities with Shanghai's environmental protection bureau said on Friday afternoon that it's illegal for the US consulate in Shanghai to publish assessments of air quality to the general public.

The study was carried out during the months of March-May, 2012 to see the status of air quality by monitoring and assessment of some selected air pollutants namely Respirable Particulate Matter (RSPM or PM10), Fine Particulates (PM2.5), Sulphur dioxide(SO2), Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and Trace metals- Iron (Fe ), Nickel (Ni), Chromium (Cr), Zinc (

Dust pollution in Dhaka air remains above the danger level one-third of the year, said minister for environment Hasan Mahmud in parliament, attributing it to open-air construction works and road di

National environmental programmes have been seeing no progress since the devolution of the Ministry of Environment two years ago.

CHENNAI: In a bid to focus on environmental sustainability and realise the objectives of Vision 2023, the environment and forest department’s draft state environment policy is looking at strategies

Hong Kong has long preferred to blame its smoggy skies on polluting factories just over the border in mainland China.

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