On the 29th September the government submitted its official report to the European Commission on levels of air pollution in the UK for 2010. It makes for pretty grim reading. The report confirms that 40 of the 43 air quality zones in the UK breached the annual limits for nitrogen dioxide. No other EU country has a higher proportion of non-compliant zones. [...]

According to a recent Gallup Poll, an increasing number of Americans believe that the threat of global warming is exaggerated. In the 2009 poll, Gallup surveyed 1012 adults by fixed and mobile phone. The results found that forty-one percent of Americans doubted the severity of global warming as reported by the mainstream media. In addition, [...]

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was launched by the Indian government in 2005 to fund urban renewal projects in Indian cities. As part of this initiative, the EPCA (Environment Pollution (Control and Prevention) Authority), the Supreme Court’s pollution monitoring body, met representatives from eight major (and ‘critically polluted’) cities to discuss the [...]