Air pollution

Bulgaria usually does not appear at the top of ranking lists, but rather at the very bottom. But when it is about air pollution, the opposite is the case. The bad air in Sofia, the capital, kills.

The air quality in the German capital improved to a certain extent in 2019. Both the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter (PM10) levels decreased.

The Berlin Senate is waging war against pollution. It approved its 'air pollution control plan' today, which contains partially drastic steps against traffic in…

Even more bad news for Germany can be found in the study. The latter evaluated 100 major urban areas. As it turns out three of the six cities with the highest mortality attributed to exhaust emissions are located in Germany.

In the 1970-s, pollution control and environmentalism in general was something parts of the German left fought for. The movement rallied against nuclear power…