According to Kaipullai, China’s rise was anything but linear. Its progress felt almost nonexistent for years, only to explode ...

Only seven countries met World Health Organization (WHO) air quality standards last year, data showed on Tuesday, as ...

Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found.

In memoir, Sarah Wynn-Williams criticized the company's readiness to develop an "anti-freedom of expression version of ...

Data released on Tuesday, the 11th of March, by Swiss air quality monitoring company IQAir showed that only seven countries ...

The U.S. State Department said it would stop publishing global air pollution data as part of attempts to shrink federal spending. The program set a worldwide standard for measuring air quality.

The program had used sensors at more than 80 U.S. embassies and consulates to track air quality, mostly in places where such ...

In China, for example, data from the US Embassy in Beijing famously contradicted official ... which struggles with smog, said they were unfazed by the removal of the US monitors.

The WHO’s air quality database will also be affected by the closing of U.S. program. Many poor countries don’t track air ...

FILE – Traffic moves slow on a road as smog envelops the areas of Lahore, Pakistan, Nov. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File) In China, for example, data from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing ...

FILE - A bird flies through a thick layer of smog in New Delhi, India, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File) ...

The United States on Tuesday ended pollution tracking by its embassies that had been a vital source of data especially in Beijing ... in the thick blankets of smog pervading China's capital.