Tag: Air pollution

• Friday, December 8th 2017 - 01:26 UTC

  UN Environment Assembly pledges to stop plastics seeping into the oceans

  

  The world's environment ministers have pledged to stop plastics seeping into the planet's oceans in a step “towards a pollution-free planet”. Delegates at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, have called for a radical change in how goods are consumed and produced to tackle the world's rubbish problem.

• Wednesday, March 26th 2014 - 06:09 UTC

  Air pollution exposure responsible for 7 million deaths in 2012, says WHO

  

  In new estimates the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died - one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than doubles previous estimates and confirms that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk. Reducing air pollution could save millions of lives.