Pollution accounts for seven million premature deaths a year. It's a problem we can solve.

Nowhere on Earth is the cost of pollution more palpable than in Ulaanbataar, where in winter the smoke of burnt coal chokes the air. It is a global problem – and in the shadow of COVID-19, at a time when what we breathe in has never been more prescient, we must tackle it. 

Also in the April edition of National Geographic:

Wildfire smoke following years of catastrophic fires, experts analyse what's in the smoke – and what it's done to health
Florida panthers an endangered cat is making a comeback – but development threatens its survival.
Amazon insects A new experiment reveals new insects far above the forest floor  
Aretha Franklin the origins, trajectory and genius of one of soul's greatest voices

Plus:

The art of chalkboards
Farming inequality
Rethinking the Everest selfie

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