IQAir World Air Quality Report: some progress being made
The 2024 IQAir World Air Quality Report published this morning contains some positive news tempered, as one might expect, by sobering reminders that global air quality still has a lot of scope for improvement.
India’s crops being blighted by power station emissions
New research has quantified the damage caused by pollution from coal power stations on wheat and rice crops in India, finding that these essential crops are yielding up to 10% less when impacted by power stations as far away as 100km.