"We woke up one morning" to "a big black thick pillar of smoke, no one can breathe."
The report provides evidence that tiny particles originating from air pollution, especially from human-related sources, adhere to the sensory organs of insects.
"If we don't deal with [climate change], Israel will be a very unpleasant place to live in the next decade or two," Prof. Colin Price, head of Tel Aviv University's PlanNet Zero
The researchers estimated that about 2.8% of heart attack deaths could be attributed to the combination of extreme temperatures and high levels of fine particulate pollution.
ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS: Hashiloni is the leader of a team of activists trying to ensure that the wind turbines are not erected close to his home further south.
The Nature and Parks Authority stressed that tar pollution causes damage to protected natural assets, including animals and flora.
A sea of plastic, the Mediterranean is the area of the world most at risk for endangered seabirds.
Some of the most popular European cities have surprisingly poor air quality.
Reducing exposure to pollution was between 40% and 80% as effective at reducing patients’ length of hospitalization as some of the best available treatments.
Tonnes of dead fish were found last summer in the river that runs along part of Germany's border with Poland, prompting Warsaw to embark on a crisis response that many scientists said came too late.
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