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Air pollution

March 2026

  • aerial view of oil refinery with american flag in center

    US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

  • Smoke rises from Miami Fort Power Station stacks along the Ohio River

    US states sue Trump EPA over decision to repeal bedrock climate finding

  • Close up of sick man using nebulizer mask for respiratory inhalation treatment at home.

    Trump policies set to increase rates of lung disease and death, study finds

  • Young children walking to school next to a congested road in Wandsworth, LondonT7JTEM Young children walking to school next to a congested road in Wandsworth, London

    Change energy use to reduce pollution and protect our health

  • London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution

  • Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash

  • Democracy, climate and justice
    How Trump’s EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits

  • Pollutionwatch
    Tackling air pollution should be part of government work to cut cancer rates, scientists say

  • Lobbyists send legal threats to councils over anti-wood burner campaigns

February 2026

  • Several large trucks are seen amid traffic on the Monash freeway in Melbourne, Victoria. A new study has found that exposure to traffic pollution costs Australia $6.2bn in health effects each year, with heavy diesel vehicles accounting for a disproportionate share of the problem

    Australian climate and environment in focus
    Pollution from trucks and buses costs Australians $6.2bn in health effects each year, study finds

  • A person puts a log into a wood burning stove

    Pollutionwatch
    Wood burning pollution leads to 8,600 premature US deaths a year, study finds

  • Smog over the city at dusk

    How ‘smog capital of Poland’ saved 6,000 lives by cutting soot levels

  • A wrecked blue car is mounted on a sign on the side of a road in rural Transylvania. Fences and farm buildings are in the background set in a hilly landscape

    Speeding, jaywalkers and imported ‘clunkers’: Romania in safety drive to improve EU’s deadliest roads

  • Democratic senators launch inquiry into EPA’s repeal of key air pollution enforcement measure

  • Nose for trouble: Italian town seeks ‘odour evaluators’ to sniff out bad smells

  • Floodlight
    ‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations

  • Airlines should tell UK customers the carbon impact of flights, watchdog says

  • Democracy, climate and justice
    Trump’s environmental rollbacks contradict RFK Jr’s healthy America promise, report finds

  • Country diary
    Country diary 1926: The reek from industrial towns reaches the Dales

  • America's dirty divide
    Mexico moves to combat pollution following Guardian investigations

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