With much of South Korea smothered in record levels of fine dust, the streets are full of people wearing masks as protection from the punishing air pollution.   Most American soldiers don’t have that option — at least when they’re in uniform. The Air Force permits masks when pollution hits a ...

An environmental advisory group has raised no objection to proposed revisions to the Hong Kong government’s five-year air quality goals, even as officials dismissed calls to tighten targets for two pollutants.   The government on Monday told the Advisory Council on the Environment the revised ...

Two thirds of the cities in the world with adequate air quality data are suffering from dangerous levels of pollution, according to a massive new map produced by Greenpeace Southeast Asia and monitoring firm AirVisual.   The map illustrates the scale of the global air pollution crisis, with cities...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has proposed a joint project with China to use artificial rain in order to reduce air pollution in Seoul.   Pollution levels across the Korean Peninsula have soared in recent years.   Over the past five days, fine dust levels have hit new highs with fine ...

Seven of the world's 10 worst polluted cities are in India, a new study has revealed, with wider South Asia home to scores more blighted by dirty air.   Gurugram, a city about 30km southwest of India's capital New Delhi, had the worst pollution levels globally in 2018, the study published on ...

The 2018 California wildfire season burned nearly 2 million acres of land, sending waves of smoke into the state's already-polluted skylines.   In the wake of the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, the state's northern areas saw pollution levels that surpassed those in China and India — two ...

Air pollution has long been an environmental and health problem - but now it should now be viewed as a human rights issue as well, according to the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and the environment.   Air pollution is leading to 7 million premature deaths a year around the world, ...

Manila, Philippines: Just thinking about going anywhere in the Metro Manila area gives me a headache; imagining how to deal with the heat, getting enveloped in black exhaust smoke and feeling the dirt slapping me in the face when a car zooms past me – it all just turns me off. Sometimes when I ...

Air pollution on one of the UK’s most polluted roads has gone unrecorded for nearly half a year after the site’s official monitor broke down, council officials have said.   Brixton Road, in South London, has made national headlines in recent years for exceeding the annual legal limit for ...

Some 385,000 people worldwide died prematurely in 2015 from air pollution caused by vehicle exhaust emissions, a US study found Wednesday, which singled out diesel engines as the main culprit.   Diesel vehicles were responsible for 47 percent of the deaths, it said, but the figure jumped as high as...