New data, based on observations from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, are showing strong reductions in nitrogen dioxide concentrations over several major cities across Europe – including Paris,…
Largest scale experiment ever’ shows what is possible as satellite images reveal marked fall in global nitrogen dioxide levels
The coronavirus pandemic is shutting down industrial activity and…
From shifting disease patterns in a warming world, to shrinking animal habitats, to the impact of air pollution in making people more vulnerable to infection, news stories over the last several days…
The health damage inflicted on people by long-standing air pollution in cities is likely to increase the death rate from coronavirus infections, experts have said.
The Ministry of Defence has launched a £2m innovation competition to reduce impact of windfarms of UK’s Air Defence systems.
With 30% of the nation’s energy to come from wind power by 2030, the MoD…
Satellite images have shown a dramatic decline in pollution levels over China, which is "at least partly" due to an economic slowdown prompted by the coronavirus, US space agency Nasa says.
Nasa…
Emissions from electricity generation and agriculture decline, but tiny overall decline shows shortcomings of Coalition policy
Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions have dipped slightly on the back…
The Future We Choose, a new book by the architects of the Paris climate accords, offers two contrasting visions for how the world might look in thirty years (read the best case scenario here)
Outdoor heaters: Paris campaigners want them banned
A campaign is underway in Paris to ban heaters due to concerns about their electricity use.
Since the smoking ban, there has been a mass move to…
For months, Australians breathed air pollution up to 26 times above levels considered hazardous to human health. The long-term impact could be devastating.
On the worst day of the smoke,…
Burning fossil fuels poisons the air we breathe, plus drives the climate emergency
Demand action on air pollution, click the button below, send a message to South…
Delta will commit $1 billion over the next ten years to mitigate all emissions from its global businesses going forward.
From March 2020, the airline will invest in driving innovation, advancing…
In the first half of this special two-part episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, take’s Zach…
Yesterday afternoon, at least ten fearless Greenpeace Africa activists successfully stormed onto the SuperSport Park cricket field during the international T20 cricket match between England and South…
Immense amounts of methane are escaping from oil and gas sites nationwide, worsening global warming, even as the Trump administration weakens restrictions on offenders.
To the naked eye, there is…
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has reported that 160,000 lives could be lost in the UK due to high levels of air pollution.
The BHF has said that heart and circulatory disease deaths attributed…
Power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., South Africa’s biggest polluter, said it will slash emissions of three major pollutants by 2035 while it asks for exemptions to incoming standards to avoid as…
More people are eating meat in China, leading to farmers using more fertilizers.
Can a larger meat consumption be linked to more premature deaths and air pollution? That seems to be the case in…
Air pollution is an insidious killer. If you are among the 91% of the world’s population who breathes air the World Health Organisation (WHO) deems unsafe, then every time you inhale, microscopic…
Britain’s easyJet (EZJ.L) is implementing plans to become the world’s first major airline to operate with net-zero carbon across its flight network, the budget carrier said on Tuesday as it also…