air pollution
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Heavy-duty trucks, which traditionally run on diesel, are an outsize source of air pollution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
In Luton - where some smaller scale measures were put in place to tackle air pollution - the figures were 9% to 7%.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The method, already used in around 50 countries to combat drought, hail and air pollution, is new for Central Asia -- a region warming twice as fast as the global average.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
As fires have declined, the rate of annual deaths from landscape-fire air pollution has fallen substantially since 2000, according to a 2024 Lancet study.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Ironically, the real source turned out to be air pollution from cars and factories.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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