[New] While big cities offer vast employment and social opportunities, megacities are struggling with several challenges; poverty, crime, pollution, transport, and waste management are just some of the issues faced by the largest cities in the world.
Statista
[New] The Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly planning to delay enforcement of 2027-2032 vehicle pollution rules.
National Law Review
[New] The rising pollution in regions like Delhi (India), Dhaka (Bangladesh), and others is anticipated to attract more investments in sustainable transportation.
Precedence Research
[New] Air quality and emissions monitoring systems will be strengthened across Haryana to improve pollution source assessment and impact evaluation.
Guidely
[New] A scientist might use data from EPA pollution monitors to train a machine-learning model that can predict health outcomes in a rural area where there are no monitors.
MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[New] The integration of eVTOLs into the UK aviation sector is expected to ease congestion, reduce pollution and offer a new mode of transport that is efficient, affordable and sustainable.
Travel And Tour World
[New] Earlier in 2025, China approved a plan to build roughly 100 low-carbon industrial parks by 2030, where its firms will develop new ways to capture carbon, make steel, and refine chemicals without carbon pollution.
Heatmap News
[New] Context: A new assessment shows that air pollution is now India's largest health threat, cutting life expectancy, worsening disease burdens, and affecting vulnerable groups nationwide.
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[New] The air pollution produced by power plants and backup diesel generators being used to power artificial intelligence is expected to result in 1,300 premature deaths by 2030 in the United States, with public health costs resulting in roughly $20 billion a year.
Office of Sustainability - Student Blog
[New] Vitamin C may offer meaningful protection against one of the world's invisible but pervasive health threats - fine-particle air pollution.
New Atlas
[New] Breaking the Plastic Wave 2025: An Assessment of the Global System and Strategies for Transformative Change projects that plastic pollution could jump from 130 million to 280 million metric tonnes by 2040, driven by production growth that far outstrips improvements in waste management.
SYSTEMIQ
[New] The Chinese government has announced plans to ban all gasoline-powered vehicles from the capital city of Beijing by 2030 to reduce pollution and promote clean energy, resulting in a significant surge in demand for electric vehicles.
UnivDatos
Investing in a stable climate, healthy land and nature, and a pollution-free planet could deliver annual gains of US$ 20 trillion, avoid millions of deaths, and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and hunger.
Circular Online
A five-year delay in starting that effort would increase cumulative environmental pollution by 540 Mt by 2040 versus System Transformation as modelled.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Particulate and NOx pollution from traffic leads to more than 1,800 earlier than expected deaths a year.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Humanity has not cut planet-warming pollution quickly enough, and the planet will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, likely in the next decade.
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