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Kengo Kuma just unveiled a spiraling, air-purifying sculpture that can absorb the emissions produced by 90,000 cars in a year. Kuma’s “Breath/ng” is made from a cutting-edge fabric with a nano-molecule activated core...

Is China turning the tide on pollution? The country stands to benefit not just environmentally, but financially as well. A new MIT study found if China reduces carbon dioxide emissions by four percent a year, the nation could...

If you're tired of breathing less-than-clean city air, Milan has a temporary respite for you. “Transitions,” a giant, cloud-like pod, has landed in the heart of the Brera Design District for Milan Design Week 2018. As...

Are you breathing clean air? A new air pollution study suggests you might not be. It found that almost 95 percent of people in the world live in areas with higher fine particle levels than the World Health Organization's...

More than four decades after the first Earth Day, there are still many environmental concerns for communities around the world to address; perhaps none so pressing as man-made climate change...

This new condominium building in New York City will actually clean the air. 570 Broome, designed by Tahir Demircioglu of Builtd, will be wrapped with a new facade material that utilizes sunshine to turn contaminating agents...

China is notorious for having some of the worst air pollution on the planet. In 2014 the country declared war on smog, and the results are in: China is killing it. In just four years, pollution is down 32 percent on average....

Construction has kicked off on Lyon Part-Dieu, MVRDV’s competition-winning design for Europe’s largest downtown shopping center that promises much more than retail therapy...

Rome is jumping on the diesel-banning bandwagon - the city just announced plans to ban oil-burning cars within the city by 2024. That's huge news, because roughly two-thirds of new cars sold last year in Italy were diesel,...

Germany's Federal Administrative Court ruled this week that cities in the nation can legally ban diesel vehicles. German states sought to appeal local bans by Stuttgart and Duesseldorf, but the federal ruling paves the way...

Studio Roosegaarde's Smog Free Project continues to create bubbles of clean air throughout the world - the team recently opened a Smog Free Tower in Park Jordana in Kraków, Poland...

The Federal Administrative Court ruled this week that German cities can legally ban diesel vehicles. German states sought to appeal local bans by Stuttgart and Duesseldorf, but the federal ruling paves the way for cities...

That stuff you use to get ready in the morning? It could be as bad for your health and the planet as car pollution. A new study shows that half of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in our air come from products like shampoo,...

After touring in China, Studio Roosegaarde's Smog Free Project will offer a vision of clean air in a new location: Poland. Daan Roosegaarde's studio will install a Smog Free Tower - described by the studio as "the world's...

After touring in China, Studio Roosegaarde's Smog Free Project will offer a vision of clean air in a new location: Poland. Daan Roosegaarde's studio will install a Smog Free Tower - described by the studio as "the world's...