Nearly 40% of people in the U.S. are living in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution and the country is backsliding on clean air progress as the effects of climate change intensify, according ...

New Delhi continues to be the most polluted capital on Earth, but it's not the world's most polluted city. That title goes to Byrnihat, an industrial town in India's northeast. DW explores why.

Congress has voted to undo a Clean Air Act regulation that strictly controls the amount of toxic air pollutants emitted by many industrial facilities like oil refineries, chemical plants, and steel ...

At 12 a.m. on the first day and first hour of 2026, the city experienced a spike in pollution levels evidenced through an ...

Lahore [Pakistan]: Lahore has ranked as the world's most polluted city for the past three days, with air quality plummeting to hazardous levels as smog blanketed the city and the overall Air Quality ...

A new study reveals that premature deaths and illnesses from air pollution related to gas and oil operations disproportionately affect Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latino communities. California ...

When the Trump administration took down websites over the past three months that track pollution and climate impacts on low-income communities, it removed key sources of government data about the ...