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On 9 December 1921 at a General Motors laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, chemists poured a teaspoonful of a compound called tetraethyl lead into a spasming motor.

Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – A global review of policies and programmes to improve air quality shows that over the past five years more countries have adopted policies on all major polluting sectors.

The Shurmann family’s expedition, Voice of the Oceans, departed from Balneário Camboriú, Brazil, on 29 August. The expedition, supported by UNEP, will focus on documenting and finding solutions to the invasion of plastics chocking ma

Around the world, more than 90 per cent of people breathe in air that the World Health Organization (WHO) considers potentially harmful.

Official end of use of leaded petrol will prevent more than 1.2 million premature deaths and save USD 2.45 trillion a year The end of leaded petrol follows a 19-year campaign led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners

On 9 December 1921 at a General Motors laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, chemists poured a teaspoonful of a compound called tetraethyl lead into a spasming motor.

Nairobi, 02 September 2021 – One-third of the world’s countries have no legally-mandated outdoor (ambient) air quality standards.

Nairobi, 3 September 2021 - WHO, UNDP, UNEP and UNICEF have partnered to create a new compendium of 500 actions aimed at reducing death and diseases driven by environmental risk factors, the first such resource to unite this expert

Most emissions have fallen in Western, Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since 2010 Hotspots remain in the Balkans and Central Asia, and air quality levels remain dangerous throughout region, but low-cost solutions are at han

This year, Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, will begin deploying the first of 1,485 electric buses to replace the diesel vehicles that now dominate its public transit system.

Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – Digital billboards around the Kenyan capital today started to live stream Nairobi’s real-time air pollution in an effort to increase air quality awarenes

Since the Green Revolution of the 1950s, agricultural innovations, like synthetic fertilizers, chemical pesticides and high-yield cereal crops, have created an abundance of low-cost food.

Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – The world today marked the second International Day of Clean Air for blue skies under the theme Healthy Air, Healthy Planet, which highlights the link between air quality and planetary and human

One of the most terrifying things about the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic was the realization that the air we breathe could also make us sick.

Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company, has developed the first r

People around the world are bracing for what has become known as the season of smog.

In August 2017, one of the world’s most recent environmental accords came into force: The Minamata Convention on Mercury.

A recent assessment from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the

Colombo/Bangkok, 20 August 2021 – With new research showing the major role that rivers play in bringing plastic pollution to the oc