The Latest Breaking News on Pollution

Extension of London’s Ulez scheme is part of growing trend despite some backlash and delays

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan plans to extend the scheme to cover all London boroughs from August 29.

Dual threat puts the most vulnerable at risk on what’s expected to be the hottest day of the year. Temperatures, humidity should lower over the weekend.

Study finds no major diff. in PM2.5 levels in urban & suburban areas of Bengaluru. Higher PM2.5 levels in western parts & major roads. CSTEP & Google develop hyperlocal air quality maps to help officials identify pollution hotspots & introduce interventions.Study finds no major diff. in PM2.5 levels in Bengaluru…

Gauhati High Court suggests 12 relief measures to save Ramsar site Deepor Beel from urban pollution. Solutions include setting up of sewerage treatment plants, no solid waste dumping, construction of promenade, cycling/walking tracks, and curtailing/regulating commercial fishing

It was once Latin America’s largest landfill

Gardens, children’s playgrounds, road signage, cars and homes are being caked in dust

Massachusetts environmental regulators have denied a request by the company dismantling a shuttered nuclear power plant to release more than 1 million gallons of radioactive wastewater into Cape Cod Bay

Ulez should not be used as a political football in any upcoming elections the mother of a London schoolgirl and the first person to have air pollution listed on her death certificate has warned.