Air pollution
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What are the most polluted cities in the world?
By Meg Duff published
Cities like Lahore, Pakistan, Hotan China and Delhi, India have consistently poor air quality, but it's impossible to accurately identify the city with the world's worst air pollution.

Pollution facts and types of pollution
By Alina Bradford last updated
The different ways that the environment gets contaminated.

Even brief exposure to diesel fumes alters activity in key brain network, study finds
By Rebecca Sohn published
An experimental study suggests that diesel fumes might disrupt the brain's typical pattern of activity.

Monet and Turner's atmospheric landscapes actually depicted air pollution, new study finds
By Jennifer Nalewicki published
Impressionist painters like Monet depicted their smog-filled surroundings in their artworks.

Placentas Are Caked in Soot from Car Exhaust. Could It Reach the Fetus?
By Nicoletta Lanese last updated
Tissue samples probed with laser light reveal thousands of particles of black carbon in the fetal placenta.

Kids' Mental Health Risks Rise with Poor Air Quality
By Agata Blaszczak-Boxe last updated
Higher levels of air pollution may be linked with worse mental health in children, a new study suggests.

Orange veil of dust chokes Beijing in record-breaking sandstorm
By Harry Baker published
Beijing and northern China have been hit with one of the worst sandstorms in decades which has increased air pollution concentrations to dangerous levels.

Italy's coronavirus response dramatically reduces air pollution emissions, satellites show
By Meghan Bartels published
As the world scrambles to confront the disease caused by a novel coronavirus, Italy has been forced to take such dramatic measures that the country's emissions have changed, as seen from space.
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