Home cookstoves are the second largest contributor to black carbon emissions globally, behind forest grassland and agricultural fires.
SA’s major polluters are going ahead with plans to offset their emissions, lowering pollution in one place to save money and continue polluting.
The Minhocão highway’s closure has given a semblance of peace and quiet to central São Paulo.
Research into some of the JSE’s biggest companies finds them in regular breach of environmental legislation and failing to disclose this to investors.
For too long, industries have been able to operate unchecked, a situation that costs people’s lives.
Boipatong struggles to breathe and residents say the steel mill is to blame. But ArcelorMittal says it is not responsible for their health problems.
Scientists were able to show that most of the loss of Indian crop yields is attributable to the impact of two pollutants.
New research shows emissions from Eskom’s coal-fired power stations are responsible for half the deaths related to air pollution in the province.
Domestic fires are the worst culprits when it comes to air pollution and dirty electricity is being touted as the answer.
More than 600 people could perish every year from illnesses related to air pollution when all Eskom’s power plants come on stream.
Respiratory illnesses are taking their toll on South Durban residents, but petrochemical firms deny culpability and won’t cough up for health costs.
Residents are ailing, while the power utility resists retrofitting power stations to decrease emissions.
Faced with growing anger about a poisonous environment, China’s government has revealed nearly one-fifth of the country’s farm land is contaminated.
Air pollution is responsible for one in eight deaths worldwide, says the WHO, and is now regarded as the biggest environmental health risk.
The Nkangala municipality won’t allow Eskom’s Kriel power station to exceed its emissions cap. But this could be its only way to save power and money.
Air quality was below China’s new national standards in all but three of 74 major cities last year, despite Premier Li Keqiang’s war on pollution.
China welcomed the Year of the Horse with toned down celebrations as people heeded govt pleas to go easy on firecrackers amid air pollution concerns.
Chinese New Year is a time for displays of fireworks and generous-portioned banquets. This year’s, the festivities are likely to be more austere.
Zambia’s environmental agency has shut down a treatment plant belonging to Mopani Copper Mines after it violated pollution regulations.
A haze expert has warned that despite recent moves to tighten controls on air pollution in urban China, dangerous smog will persist for decades.
The new generation of electric cars is going further than ever before — or so current thinking goes, writes <em>Martin Love</em>.
"Black cloud", a mass of polluted air that darkens the skies of the Egyptian capital in October and November, is less severe this year.
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/ 20 September 2008
Beijing was grinding back to its congested normal on Saturday after two months of traffic restrictions and factory closures.
Robert Cabrales is preparing to take a bus-load of sightseers on a journey that he says aims to expose the city’s ”dirty little secrets”.
Haze settled over Beijing on Wednesday, two days before the start of the Olympic Games that have been beset by worries over pollution
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/ 15 September 2000
Former employees of the Mobil refinery in south Durban claim to have been poisoned by the company that employed them