The decline in smog-causing aerosol particles resulting from China's ambitious cleanup efforts are an unlikely culprit for recent extreme heat waves in the Pacific. Scientists are grappling with the fact that reducing such pollution, while essential for public health, is also heating the atmosphere.
In its annual “State of the Air” report, the American Lung Association noted that while poor air quality is pervasive, communities of colour are more than twice as likely to experience the worst impacts.
The agency warned on Monday that over 70 per cent of the world's workforce is likely to be exposed to excessive heat during their careers. It also warned of air pollution, pesticides and other hazards that could lead to health problems including cancer.
New parking tariffs could come into force at the start of September. The cost of on-street parking for an SUV or 4x4 vehicle would rise to €18 an hour in the centre of Paris and €12 an hour in the rest of the city.
The hitmaker whose dominance of pop culture now includes the first tour to gross more than $1 billion, is the latest in a long list of celebrities, government officials and elite businesspeople to come under scrutiny about private jet travel.
Authors of a report published in the journal Science, say the massive releases of volatile organic compounds, separate from the industry's climate-change-causing emissions, raise concerns about what those hundreds of complex, highly reactive chemicals are doing in the environment.
As part of an environmental group’s settlement with Volkswagen over air pollution, the federal government is putting some of the money into projects that promote active transportation in Quebec.