Coal-fired power plants in India—responsible for generating 73.4% of the country’s electricity —are bad for the country’s ...

Nitrogen dioxide in the air can be a powerful polluter and becomes harmful for human health in high concentrations. In UK cities, around half the nitrogen dioxide air pollution comes from road traffic ...

A study of air pollution in U.S. homes found that households with gas or propane stoves regularly breathe unhealthy levels of ...

Most of the world breathes unhealthy air. Poor monitoring, industrial emissions, and weak regulations worsen air pollution.

On top of the primary particle output, emissions of precursor gases (including sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and ammonia) lead to the generation of secondary aerosol ...

Power plants, factories, gas cookers, volcanoes, car exhausts and forest fires are all sources of particulate pollution. Among the gases, nitrogen dioxide is considered the most harmful.

The researchers concluded therefore that controlling nitrogen dioxide pollution could help cut the cost to the NHS of treating severe asthma attacks.

Critical levels of air pollution have been recorded in the temporarily occupied Luhansk Oblast, the Ukrainian National ...

The highest nitrogen dioxide pollution levels in Austria were measured in Vomp in the Tyrolean lowlands last year. However, according to the Federal Office, the currently applicable, high EU limit ...

A new analysis based on the first year of the expansion found that levels of nitrogen ... in carbon dioxide (CO2). The report found there had been a one per cent reduction in CO2 emissions in ...