Steve Easterbrook – The Conversation

Delhi’s skyline is seen enveloped in smog and dust in New Delhi, India, in November 2019. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

January 27, 2026

Air pollution crosses borders, and so must the policies aimed at tackling it

Harshit Gujral, University of Toronto; Meredith Franklin, University of Toronto; Sagnik Dey, The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto

A new study highlights why airshed-aware systems thinking is crucial to break India’s air-quality governance deadlock.

Cars release exhaust fumes as children head to school in Frankfurt, Germany, in February 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

April 3, 2025

Harshit Gujral, University of Toronto; Meredith Franklin, University of Toronto, and Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto

Electric vehicles sold in the last decade are already having a measurable impact on childhood asthma rates in the U.S.