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The head of the World Health Organization calls air pollution ‘the new tobacco’ because it causes millions of preventable deaths yearly. Fine particle pollution is especially deadly.
London’s low emission zone has started to reduce air pollution – but not enough to protect children’s lungs.
How could a company like Volkswagen knowingly violate US air-pollution standards despite the senseless risks to which it was exposing its reputation? The case method can provide an answer.
These substances can generate air pollution particles.
As traffic slows down, research is gathering momentum.
US ozone pollution has fallen in recent decades, but exposure to low levels of ozone still has serious effects on human health and well-being.
The US government is set to make it easier for oil and gas firms to leak methane into the atmosphere.
Two business professors spent five years studying Walmart’s ambition project to bring sustainability to its millions of budget-conscious customers – a plan that began with the birth of a granddaughter.
Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, but over the last four centuries it has aged and darkened from pollution.
In a developed country like the UK, why can life expectancy within just a few miles differ by as much as 18 years?
US national parks protect some of America’s most spectacular outdoor settings. But new research shows that ozone pollution levels in the parks are roughly as bad as in major cities.
And wildfires rage along the West Coast of North America, parents should know the impact on their children’s health, and how to protect them.
Research shows that cities benefit from car-free days in many ways.
Daily routine affects how much polluted air we breathe.
New research projects that climate change could greatly increase airborne dust levels in the southwestern US, causing higher hospital admissions and premature deaths from heart and lung ailments.
Two air pollution experts analyse the government’s plan.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wants to change the grounds for setting US air pollution targets. An environmental lawyer explains why Pruitt’s approach misreads the law and could roll back decades of gains.
The EPA intends to limit what scientific studies can inform policy – a change long sought by industry. A long-time public health researcher explains the single study at the root of the controversy.
Every autumn Victoria copes with smoke haze from planned burns that reduce bushfire risk, but a large part of that pollution actually comes from industrial logging activity.
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Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of York
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Professor & Chair in Air Quality and Health; Founding Director, Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), Co-Director, Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey, University of Surrey
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Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science, University of Essex
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Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, UMass Amherst
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Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York
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Associate Professor, University of Pretoria
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Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Birmingham
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Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Researcher, The University of Queensland
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Professor, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Statistics, Queensland University of Technology
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Conjoint Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Atmospheric Biogeochemistry, University of Birmingham
