This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Air pollution kills seven million people a year. Two of the chief contributors are lax vehicle emissions standards and ...

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As wildfires scorched record swaths of California, Oregon, and Washington State, massive plumes of smoke caused air pollution there to soar to unprecedented levels—rivaling that of the world’s ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. More than a million people in China died from the effects of ambient air pollution in 2016, according to the World Health ...

This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... to keep lights on when the sun is down and the air is still. But the world remains more than 85 percent reliant ...

Involve local community in local government. Reduce air pollution by upgrading energy use and alternative transport systems. Create private-public partnerships to provide services such as waste ...