2020-04-29 Stay-at-home Order Does Not Bring Down Mexico City’s Pollution
Government orders for people to stay home to halt the spread of the coronavirus have resulted in a sharp decrease of vehicle traffic around the world. Cities such as Delhi,…
2020-02-29 Study: New Delhi Is Again World’s Most Polluted Capital
New Delhi was the most polluted capital city last year, just like it was in 2018. That finding comes IQ AirVisual, a Swiss-based group that studies air-quality measurements from around…
2019-11-16 Pollution in Afghanistan: More Dangerous Than War?
Yousuf and his family left their home in eastern Afghanistan eight years ago. They went to the city of Kabul to escape war, but they could not escape sadness. Five…
2016-03-13 China Cut Pollution By Using Less Coal
Air pollution decreased in China in 2015 after it used less coal. Coal use fell almost 4 percent last year. By burning less coal, the Chinese cut carbon dioxide in…
2015-01-06 Pollution Turning India’s Taj Mahal Yellow
For years, people living near the Taj Mahal have burned fuel and garbage. Slowly, tiny pieces of those fires are changing the marble on the Taj Mahal from bright white…
2013-05-22 Pollution Forces Residents from California Town
Hello. I’m Jim Tedder in Washington. Welcome to a special edition of “As It Is.” Seventeen years ago, an American energy company paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle…
2001-12-14 Pollution Threatens Water Cycle
This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. A new report says pollution caused by people may be seriously threatening the Earth’s water supply. Scientists say small particles of soot…