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‘What I would do in the morning is actually make it illegal for anybody to drive their kids to school’ a Dublin City Council official has said. Photograph: iStock
Dublin council official calls for ban on parents driving children to school

Parents should be legally prohibited from driving their children to school, a senior Dublin City Council official has told a clean air conference. Th(...)

“Any world leaders who thought they could hit the snooze button have been given a final wake-up call.” Photograph: Sascha Steinbach/EPA
Increasing fossil fuel use push carbon emissions to record high

Increasing coal, oil and gas use are pushing global carbon emissions to an all-time high, climate scientists have told the UN climate talks in Katowic(...)

Pedestrians in Kathmandu, Nepal: A new report from the WHO says 300 million children live in areas with extreme air pollution, where toxic fumes are more than six times above the health guidelines. Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA
Pollution responsible for a quarter of deaths of children, says WHO
  • World
  • March 6, 2017, 15:51

Pollution is responsible for one in four deaths among all children under five, according to new World Health Organisation reports, with toxic air, uns(...)

Towns and cities across Ireland have been named and shamed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for breaching safety levels for air pollution. File photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
Irish cities breach air pollution safety levels

Towns and cities across Ireland and Britain have been named and shamed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for breaching safety levels for air poll(...)