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27/02/2018

One of Germany’s top courts has ruled that heavily polluting vehicles can be banned from the urban centres of Stuttgart and Düsseldorf, a landmark ruling that could dramatically hit the value of diesel cars.

Landmark ruling could cause traffic chaos and dramatically hit the value of diesel vehicles

06/12/2017

Seventeen million babies under the age of one are breathing toxic air, putting their brain development at risk, the UN children's agency has warned.

Toxic air is putting the brain development of millions of infants under one at risk, Unicef says.

19/11/2017

Is it re****ed, criminal or both?

Around 35,000 brave runners registered for the race after more than a week of hazardous pollution levels

14/06/2017

Taking a side street route when walking through a city cuts a person’s air pollution exposure by half, according to a new study.

Clean air signposts and online walking maps to sidestep diesel fumes would benefit public health, finds study

12/06/2017

In 1996, the Scottish scientist Anthony Seaton put forward a new theory about the health problems from modern air pollution. Throughout our evolution, we have always lived with dusts, but Seaton suggested that the problems from modern air pollution were due to the sheer number of tiny pollution particles that we are now exposed to.

Pollutionwatch Engineers call them nano-particles, and standing beside a busy road, we inhale them in truly astonishing numbers

13/03/2017

Warning: living in a city could seriously damage your health

More people than ever live in urban environments, where dirty air, noise and stress must be tackled

12/03/2017

A city-wide network of sensors, dubbed a fitness tracker for a city, is being installed in Chicago.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39229221

A city-wide network of sensors monitoring air quality is being installed in Chicago.

06/03/2017

Toxic air, unsafe water and and lack of sanitation causing the deaths of 1.7 million children under five every year

Toxic air, unsafe water and and lack of sanitation causing the deaths of 1.7 million children under five every year

02/03/2017

Stuttgart residents sue mayor for 'bodily harm' caused by air pollution

To highlight the dangerous air quality in the German city, which breached EU limits 25 times in January, two neighbours lodged a criminal complaint against city officials. Popular resistance to Stuttgart’s pollution problem is growing

12/01/2017

EPA says Chrysler is latest automaker to cheat on emission tests, showing that EVs are the best way forward

The car company installed software in multiple models that ‘increases air pollution’ for three years, in violation of the Clean Air Act, EPA claims

08/01/2017

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has unveiled further plans to restrict traffic in the French capital and pedestrianize the city center

Anne Hidalgo says she wants to cut the number of cars in French capital by half as part of campaign to tackle pollution

03/01/2017

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