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All but one of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities last year were in Asia, a new study shows. The majority of these ...

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The program had used sensors at more than 80 U.S. embassies and consulates to track air quality, mostly in places where such ...

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The United States on Tuesday ended pollution tracking by its embassies that had been a vital source of data especially in ...

The U.S. government will stop sharing air quality data gathered from its embassies and consulates, worrying local scientists ...

The U.S. State Department said it would stop publishing global air pollution data as part of attempts to shrink federal spending. The program set a worldwide standard for measuring air quality.