An anti-toxic dump campaigner in South Africa has been recognised with a prestigious environmental award.

Usman, 10, has developed asthma and has to use an inhaler when the situation becomes unbearable.

As a thick smog hung over Beijing last year, Stephanie Giambruno and her husband decided it was time for her and their two girls to return to the U.S.

Asthma, the chronic lung disease, costs New York state more than $1.3 billion annually in medical costs and lost productivity, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said.

It has shrouded England's most famous monuments for days, prompted a rash of calls to the emergency services over health fears and even stopped Prime Minister David Cameron from taking his early mo

Schools are being urged to stop pupils from using playgrounds at lunchtime and employees to avoid cycling, running or walking to work during rush hour in the areas of England worst affected by the

High levels of air pollution will continue to affect parts of the UK on Thursday, experts have warned.

With PM10 concentration, the Capital tops the pollution charts

Air pollution is known to cause shorter and sicker lives and Delhiites never seem to have had it so bad. The Capital has been listed as the worst performer across the country with respect to the presence of alarmingly high level of Particulate Matter up to 10 micrometer in size (PM10) concentration.

The price of being a prosperous, industrial city could be a few years of residents' lives, so says a paper by a Harvard professor.