A study spanning 31 European countries has found that short-term exposure to air pollution is linked to an estimated 146,500 premature deaths per year, according to research published in Nature Health.

With three people dead and eleven cases linked to a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, an international group of leading public health scientists has called on the World Health Organization to fundamentally change how it responds to emerging respiratory viruses

One of the biggest obstacles to decarbonising road freight is the lack of clarity around where and when electric heavy goods vehicles will need to draw power from the grid. A new initiative led by UK Power Networks is aiming to change that.

The Healthy Air Coalition is calling on the government to introduce a new Clean Air Act, aligned with WHO guidelines and with legally binding targets robust enough to match the scale of the public health challenge.

Researchers at Arizona State University have discovered that fog is far more alive than it appears, finding that bacteria living inside tiny fog droplets are not only surviving, they are actively growing and helping remove harmful pollutants from the air.

London has set an ambition to replace 17% of van miles with cargo bikes by 2030. That would require roughly 12,000 cargo bikes moving goods across the capital’s streets. Today, there are fewer than 1,000.