Air pollution has been called the most pressing environmental health crisis of our time. Now, Iran's capital chokes under poor air quality and schools have been forced to shut over it.

WION Climate Tracker | Iran's capital chokes under poor air quality

US air travel to be highest in three years after the pandemic as Americans are now more eager to travel. Watch this report for all the details.

World Business Watch: US air travel to be highest in three years

There has been a surge in air traffic in Hong Kong. Passer throughput is up 10% at 525,000. Passenger traffic jumped 140% in the first nine months.

Hong Kong air traffic surges: Passer throughput up 10% at 525,000

The 39th annual New Jersey hot air balloon festival is here. Around 175,00 people are expected to be a part of the festival. Watch this report.

39th annual New Jersey hot air balloon festival: 175,00 people expected to be part of the festival

With time, throwing of money in air during marriage celebrations seems to have become a notorious trend in India. People generally toss the cash in small denominations.

Man tosses Rs 500 notes in air during ‘marriage celebration’ in India’s Hyderabad, catches attention

A recent study, which was published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, states that people are most likely to contract COVID-19 from air particles.

COVID-19 virus 1000 times likely to spread through air than surfaces, study finds

A think tank has warned that to meet global climate targets, removing carbon dioxide from the air will now be essential. As per the energy transitions commission, there is a need to tidy up carbon offset markets.

To meet global climate targets, carbon dioxide will have to be removed from air

It is late afternoon in Manhattan and you have a flight to catch at Kennedy International Airport. Instead of sitting in rush-hour traffic for two hours, you take a short ride to a nearby parking garage where you board an electric aircraft that takes off vertically from the roof and deposits you at Kennedy 20 minutes later for roughly the same cost as a fancy ride-share.

Taxi! To the airport — by air, please.

An ampoule of Antarctic air from the year 1765 has formed the centrepiece of a new exhibition. It reveals the hidden histories contained in polar ice for the visitors attending the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow.

Capsule from 1765 containing air reveal facts about Antarctic ice

France ended its evacuations from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan late Friday, officials said, one day after a suicide bombing left scenes of carnage outside Kabul airport.

France ends evacuations from Afghanistan

Syria's air defence system engaged "hostile targets" over the capital Damascus late Thursday, state news agency SANA reported, with a military source claiming they were Israeli missiles.

Syria says air defence shot down Israeli missiles

Intense smoke due to wildfires in the US West Coast caused hazy skies in New York, with the air quality index worsening to 157 in Manhattan. New York City air quality was among the worst in the world.

Wildfire aftermath: New York air quality is now among the worst in world

There have been reports of empty oxygen cylinders piling up in the city of Khulna, which has now become Bangladesh's coronavirus hotspot amid a surge. The government has ordered a strict week-long nationwide lockdown in a bid to halt the spread of Covid-19, but Khulna's hospitals cannot cope.

Bangladesh's virus hotspot gasps for air as cases surge

The densely-populated Gaza Strip has long lacked sufficient drinking water, but a new project helps ease the shortage with a solar-powered process to extract potable water straight from the air.

Extracting potable water from air | This Israeli firm in Gaza is turning air into drinking water

As the world is facing the worst coronavirus outbreak—India has emerged strongly in responding to the crisis so far. Till now, the government of India has rescued 1,497 people, which includes 55 foreign nationals as well.

Coronavirus outbreak: India emerges as a proactive nation in fighting global health emergency

One of the biggest industries to be hit by the long-term repercussions of the coronavirus is aviation. Thousands of flights have been cancelled globally, with stringent travel bans in place to contain the outbreak.

Coronavirus helps set a new record: World's longest scheduled commercial flight ever!

Air Chief RKS Bhadauria on Tuesday formally inducted the Flight Information system (FIS) Dornier aircraft into No 41 Squadron at a ceremony at Air Force Station Palam.

Air Chief inducts FIS Dornier aircraft into number 41 squadron

Extinction Rebellion climate activists were arrested after gluing themselves to a roadblock they had erected in central London on Monday (December 9).

Activists glue hands to roadblock to highlight air pollution in London

The air quality is likely to be in the 'bad' to 'very bad' category on Wednesday and may worsen even further in the coming two days in the Delhi and NCR region, according to Skymet Weather.

Delhi: Air quality to be bad today, may worsen in upcoming days

One cold night in October, Gerel Ganbaatar decided to stay with her parents in one of Mongolia's traditional ger communities on the outskirts of the capital -- a decision which would prove fatal.

Mongolia's new 'cleaner' fuel linked to deaths, illness

Raising concerns over the depleting air quality in Uttar Pradesh, artificial lungs installed near Nagar Nigam office in Lalbagh area turned black within 24 hours.

UP air quality: Artificial lungs turn black within 24 hours

Private FM channels will be allowed to broadcast All India Radio news in English and Hindi after the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Tuesday launched the facility.

Private FM channels to be permitted to broadcast AIR news

Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has decided to close down All India Radio's national channel and its regional training academies in five cities as part of "cost-cutting measures" and to "rationalise" services.

AIR to shut down national channel, regional training academies in 5 cities to cut costs

The air quality of Delhi nosedived on Tuesday just a few days after scores of effigies were burned across the region on the occasion of Dussehra. According to the latest System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) data, the air quality in capital`s Lodhi Road area showed levels of prominent pollutants PM (particulate matter) 10 and PM 2.

Delhi gasps for breath as air quality dips further

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