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Air pollution

October 2025

  • Wood smoke emerging from a house's chimney

    Pollutionwatch
    Tackle wood burning and road traffic to improve Europe’s air quality, study finds

  • liquefied natural gas export terminal

    All operational US liquefied natural gas terminals have violated pollution limits, says report

  • Firefighters look on at large flames

    Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals

  • Silhouettes of people and monkeys walk past India Gate amid smoggy conditions in Delhi this week.

    India trials Delhi cloud seeding to clean air in world’s most polluted city

  • Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds

  • No prosecutions made after 15,195 wood-burning complaints in a year in England

  • Delhi awakes to a toxic haze after Diwali as pollution season begins

  • Mississippi residents sue UK-owned biomass firm granted permit for more emissions

  • Carmakers chose to cheat to sell cars rather than comply with emissions law, ‘dieselgate’ trial told

  • High youth death rates are an ‘emerging crisis’, global health study warns

  • ‘Little lungs are paying’: 1.6m claimants head to high court as carmakers finally face punishment for Dieselgate

  • As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

  • Pollutionwatch
    Frailty in ageing populations worsened by air pollution, global review finds

  • Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable

  • The alternatives
    Lifting the ‘constant black cloud’: how a smog-bound city cut dangerous levels of air pollution

September 2025

  • Indoor portrait of a middle-aged woman with short hair. Air quality sensors outside. Portrait of a younger woman outside.

    The Guardian picture essay
    US Latinos mobilize to monitor – and improve – local air quality: ‘We have to fix it’

    As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump’s EPA moves to weaken pollution regulations
  • Buildings seen through thick haze in Guangzhou, China

    Fossil fuel burning poses threat to health of 1.6bn people, data shows

    New interactive map tracking PM2.5 air pollution reveals 900m people in path of ‘super-emitting’ industrial facilities

    • Brief letters
      The tragedy of a second runway at Gatwick

    • Pollutionwatch
      Air pollution can affect how well we sleep, scientists discover

    • TfL says persistent offenders owe more than £700m in Ulez fines

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