As rising temperatures are creating more extreme heat events in regions all over the world, the term 'urban heat island' is ...

Early one October afternoon in 2023, thick gray smoke drifted across Sheffield's western skyline. As much of the city became ...

Earlier in 2025, wildfires in southern California killed 30 people, destroyed more than 18,000 homes and burned more than ...

Trees have a remarkable range of traits that can help reduce urban air pollution, and cities around the world are looking to harness them. In January 2019, the mayor of London announced that 7,000 ...

May 7, 2025 — In a sweeping new study of more than 13,000 urban areas worldwide, researchers have mapped air pollution levels and carbon dioxide emissions, providing comprehensive global ...

Urban air pollution creates significant oxidative stress in your body—essentially causing cellular “rust” as reactive compounds damage cell membranes, proteins, and even DNA.

In a recent meeting chaired by CAQM's Rajesh Verma, Haryana unveiled a robust strategy to combat air pollution, focusing on ...

The findings are part of WHO's third Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, which examines outdoor air in 3,000 cities, towns and villages — but mostly cities — across 103 countries.

"The combination of CALIOPE-Urban predictions with all these urban data using artificial intelligence allows us to improve the model because where simulation cannot explain the spatial distribution of ...