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The air quality in the national capital improved due to better weather condition on Friday. Read further on Dynamite News:

After one year of the zone, which is the second largest in England, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by a quarter

The San Joaquin Valley’s Kern County is home to some of the country’s most polluted cities

What if well-meaning policies that reduce one atmospheric pollutant could also increase natural emissions of powerful greenhouse gases?

Even brief exposure to particulate matter found to impede selective attention and emotional recognition

Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in Australian rivers has revealed. The problem on the reef is getting worse, not better, despite efforts to improve farming practices and billions of dollars committed by governments to water-quality improvements.

Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree

Mountaineers now scaling more peaks for first global study of nanoplastics, which can enter lungs and bloodstream

New research points to air pollution as a growing contributor to lung cancer around the world

A massive sinkhole near Tokyo that swallowed a truck and its driver a week ago, and has filled with sewage and debris, highlights the risk posed by Japan's ageing pipes.