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Never before had 63,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil washed up on Iberian coasts, creating a 2,000 kilometres-long polluted area stretching from Portugal to Spain and all the way to France.

New rules on air quality are set to bring the EU closer to the latest WHO recommendations.

To combat air pollution, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) will enforce restrictive measures under Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP). Stage I of the plan is already being implemented in Delhi. Find out what it means:

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A month-long anti-dust campaign to check compliance of pollution norms at construction sites was launched in Delhi on Thursday.

From Berlin to Munich, people are breathing air containing five times the amount of toxic pollution that scientists know is dangerous.

World Car-Free Day is an annual reminder of the folly of creating car-based transport systems, and of the many advantages that would accrue if we lessened our dependence on fuel, cars and motorbikes, and instead created vastly better conditions for walking, cycling, and public transport in our cities.

“The modern addiction to fossil fuels is not just an act of environmental vandalism. From the health perspective, it is an act of self-sabotage,” said the World Health Organization’s chief.

Chattogram city produces 249 tonnes of plastic waste every single day -- 56 percent of which remains uncollected and littered in the environment, according to a new study.

The ship stored 215 tons of heavy fuel oil, 250 tons of diesel and 27 tons of lubricating oil, say Spanish media