The World Health Organization( WHO) has tightened its guidelines for recommended air pollution limits, after it found evidence of damage to human health at lower levels than previously thought. This leaves the EU legal limit for air pollution way out of step with the WHO’s recommendations, with the bloc allowing certain types of pollution to be four or five times higher. Since 2005, when the WHO last updated its global recommendations, there has been “ a marked increase in evidence that shows ho

GLASGOW, Scotland--Governments and big investors announced fresh steps Wednesday to pour trillions of dollars into curbing global warming, reflecting the financial world's growing embrace of efforts to fight climate change as both a business necessity and opportunity. But some social justice activists called for scrutiny of investors' motives, warning that the same financial institutions that profited from funding fossil fuel firms were now being presented as green champions. There is a growing

This summer, the rains in Beijing felt like they would never stop.... In August, Ellery Lee, an energy and climate change consultant in the capital, was drenched walking through a downpour.... Once home, he was shocked to see news that two people had drowned after getting trapped under a bridge in the city’s outskirts. Support our journalism....