air pollution
April 18, 2025
Almost all of the urban population in Europe remains exposed to PM2.5 concentrations higher than those indicated by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is 94% [...]
15 February 2025
There are no thresholds below which air pollution does not pose health risks. At the same time, reducing the level of pollutants leads [...]
25 January 2025
Smog, fine particulate matter, ozone and nitrogen dioxide threaten human health and ecosystems. Air pollution is the greatest environmental threat to the [...]
18 October 2024
Towards Zero Pollution by 2050, Europe is equipping itself with a new directive that updates air quality standards for pollutants, with objectives to be achieved [...]
7 September 2024
Air pollution is a huge and growing public health problem. Bad air kills. And those most exposed are once again the most fragile, [...]
10 March 2023
No place on the planet is immune to air pollution and the impact of fine particles. Daily global levels of 'unhealthy air' are revealed in published research [...]
19 October 2022
The environmental crisis is damaging our mental health. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) devotes a focus on harmful effects to this emergency [...]
11 May 2021
Several UN agencies, including Unep, Who, Unicef, Unhcr, are asking for the recognition of the human right to a healthy environment. (1) Time to recognize, implement and [...]
April 15, 2020
Air pollution in the pre-Covid era reached pandemic significance, with an estimated 10 million deaths in 2019. [...]