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UK health bodies call for end to coal power

Healthcare services are also “unprepared” for the potential impacts of climate change on air pollution, ...

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Air pollution linked to 40,000 early deaths, UK doctors warn

Report by Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health ...

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WHO urges global measures to cut black carbon

Report by World Health Organisation suggests measures to reduce air pollutants affecting both human health ...

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London LEZ ‘fails to improve’ respiratory health

Researchers have produced a paper which reasons that the London LEZ has had limited impacts ...

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Incinerators ‘contribute little’ to particle emissions

Results from part of a Public Health England-funded study into the impacts of municipal waste ...

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Glasgow cancer patients moved over air quality concerns

Eighteen leukaemia patients have been temporarily moved from a newly-opened £842 million hospital in Glasgow ...

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New Defra minister sets out stall on air quality

The government’s new minister with responsibility for air quality, Rory Stewart, responded to a number ...

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WHO adopts ‘landmark’ resolution on air pollution

UN agency the World Health Organisation agrees its ‘first ever’ resolution to address the health ...