#airpollution — Public Fediverse posts

Pine-cone grenades and planet-baking carbon: the French fires 170 years in the making – a visual guide
By Ajit Niranjan with graphics by Lucy Swan, Harvey Symons and Paul Scruton

An 1857 decree to drain swamps and plant a monoculture, detritus from the trees and global heating combined to produce the conditions for the Gironde inferno

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/23/french-fires-150-years-in-the-making-visual-guide

#Wildfires #France #Extremeheat #Extremeweather #Airpollution #Pollution #Europe #Environment #Worldnews #TheGuardian #AjitNiranjanwithgraphicsbyLucySwan #HarveySymons #PaulScruton

Pine-cone grenades and planet-baking carbon: the French fires 170 years in the making – a visual guide https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/23/french-fires-150-years-in-the-making-visual-guide #Wildfires #France #ExtremeHeat #ExtremeWeather #AirPollution #Pollution #Europe #Environment #WorldNews

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
By Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against them

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emission-zone-working-other-cities-cautious-clean-air

#Lowemissionzones #Airpollution #London #Health #Pollution #Roadtransport #Environment #UKnews #Worldnews #Society #TheGuardian #FionaHarveyEnvironmenteditor

London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emission-zone-working-other-cities-cautious-clean-air #LowEmissionZones #AirPollution #London #Health #Pollution #RoadTransport #Environment #UkNews #WorldNews #Society

@luckytran Gary, Indiana (apart from featuring in the famous song), also features in Matthew A. Crenson's book, "The Un-Politics of Air Pollution: A Study of Non-Decisionmaking in the Cities". The reason Gary had no #Regulation of #airpollution for a very long time was because no one in the place wanted to upset #US #Steel, which was crucial to the local #economy. The book is a illustration of Bachrach & Baratz's 2nd Face of (political) Power.

Cleaner city air linked to better cognitive development in children https://www.earth.com/environment/cleaner-city-air-linked-to-better-cognitive-development-in-children/

#city #cities #environment #AirQuality #AirPollution #health #cognition #children

Delhi's electric tuktuk boom gets a hacking shock
By Angus Mackintosh, Rachel Clayton, and Som Patidar

Rickshaw drivers are pushing back on plans to ban all new non-electric versions of the vehicle from next January.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-22/delhi-electric-rickshaws-ev-policy-india/107055812

#ElectricVehicles #AirPollution #SharedTransport #HumanInterest #AngusMackintosh #RachelClayton #SomPatidar

#Airpollution and brain damage: what the science says | @Nature.com
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00053-y

#Epidemiologicalstudies have linked dirty air to #dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine how pollutants do their damage, and how much harm they cause.
By Liam Drew

Research around the world has linked polluted air to increased risks of dementia, depression, anxiety and psychosis. Credit: Damir Sagolj/Reuters

Huh, forest fires everywhere.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #forestfire #forestfires #wildfire #wildfires #forest #forest #fire #fires #environment #environmental #enviroment #enviromental #indonesia #kalimantan #borneo #indonesian #indonesians #sad #imsad #iamsad #savenature #saveearth #pollution #airpollution #ecology #ecosystem #elnino #elniño #drought #climate #southeastasia #asia #everywhere

What happens to people’s health when air pollution is reduced?
By Gary Fuller

Growing evidence that cutting coal use and bans on high-polluting vehicles are leading directly to health benefits

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/21/what-happens-peoples-health-when-air-pollution-reduced

#Airpollution #Environment #Health #Lowemissionzones #Healthpolicy #Society #Cities #Greece #UKnews #Worldnews #Europe #Coal #TheGuardian #GaryFuller

Study finds London’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone, introduced in 2019, has already had beneficial effacts on children’s lung development

#ulez #london #airpollution

https://theconversation.com/ulez-linked-with-better-lung-growth-in-children-research-finds-289997

19-Aug-2026
Choice of tree species affects urban #airQuality

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1140356

#science #environment #cities #airPollution #trees

I remember Gammon losers taking the cameras down, not because they were spying on women seeking abortions or anything like that, because they wanted to pollute our lungs with their old cars.

Well 'Fuck you' lads, wrong side of History again!

https://news.sky.com/story/londons-ulez-linked-to-improved-lung-growth-in-children-says-study-13574518

#ULEZ #London #AirPollution #UKPol #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/18/ulez-hardest-decision-mayor-london-impact-sadiq-khan. Why the Hell should it have been "hard" for #SadiqKhan to do the right thing on #airpollution & for #publichealth, particularly when it came to the #health of #children, the #elderly & the #disabled? Why should the #selfish #interests of #motorists & #motor #manufacturers take priority over them? Why are #politicians, of #Left & #Right, so wilfully myopic?

Scientists stunned by children’s lung recovery in ultra low emission zone https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l1r1zne1ro

#ulez #airpollution #london

Three days of Ontario wildfire smoke brought unhealthy air to 106 million person-days https://phys.org/news/2026-08-days-ontario-wildfire-brought-unhealthy.html

#Ontario #environment #Air #AirPollution #AirQuality #wildfire #wildfires #health #PublicHealth

Introducing Ulez was my hardest decision as mayor of London – but now we know its astonishing impact | Sadiq Khan
By Sadiq Khan

Critics said I was attacking motorists. It’s more important for me that the city’s children are no longer breathing dangerous levels of pollution

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/18/ulez-hardest-decision-mayor-london-impact-sadiq-khan

#Airpollution #Pollution #Environment #Health #Society #UKnews #Transport #London #TheGuardian #SadiqKhan

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
By Damien Gayle Environment correspondent

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution was restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/18/ulez-better-lung-size-function-london-children

#Lowemissionzones #Airpollution #Pollution #London #Children #Childrenshealth #Environment #Society #UKnews #England #TheGuardian #DamienGayleEnvironmentcorrespondent

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/18/ulez-better-lung-size-function-london-children #LowEmissionZones #AirPollution #Pollution #London #Children #ChildrensHealth #Environment #Society #UkNews #England

@jeremycorbyn Earth's greatest enemy is the #extraction & #burning of #fossilfuels, Jeremy, which has resulted in there being more #CO2 in the #atmosphere now than at any time in the past 3.25 million years - not since the Pliocene Epoch. The only reason we don't have the climatic conditions that prevailed at that time is because of #airpollution, & that is being reduced. You need to take #globalwarming more seriously!

City & State NY: Talks underway to settle 9/11 World Trade Center air quality records fight. “Both sides in the long-running legal dispute over the public release of thousands of 9/11 World Trade Center documents generated by New York City during the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations confirm they are in settlement talks with just a month to go before the 25th anniversary of the attacks.”

Preparing for the 41st Bridger Ridge Run

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. …
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #Airpollution #airqualityindex #atmosphere #bridgerrange #climatechange #climatevariabilityandchange #environmentalissues #humanimpactontheenvironment #impactsofhumanactivities #naturalenvironment #physicalgeography #Ridge #Science #smoke #weather #Wildfire
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/812901/

From Paul #Krugman on #measles and #autism and #vaccines
"You know what does have a strong, well-documented correlation with Autism ?
Air pollution. Childhood exposure to #airpollution is clearly associated with higher rates of autism. Moreover, scientists have found a found a strong association between autism and pre-natal maternal exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel pollution."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-measles-industrial?publication_id=277517&post_id=210804068&isFreemail=true&r=280pdx&triedRedirect=true

“Childhood exposure to #airpollution is clearly associated with higher rates of #autism. Moreover, scientists have found a found a strong association between autism and pre-natal maternal exposure to #particulatematter from #fossilfuel #pollution” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

Bring back pollution?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/europe-worlds-fastest-warming-continent-climate-crisis-explainer

#ClimateChange #AirPollution #Heatwave #Heat

#AI #DataCenters Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of #AirPollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-generators-worse

Even ‘safe’ #airpollution levels may affect heart health
Artery blocks may start developing even in people breathing what regulators call clean #air
Exposure to #air #pollution from cars, industrial activity and #fossilfuels linked to advanced coronary artery disease, even at levels near or below safety limits. Adjusting for high blood pressure and cholesterol weakened association, suggesting pollution may partly work by worsening risk factors.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/safe-air-pollution-heart-health
https://archive.ph/SuLPL