Clean Air Report Ghana

Air pollution is now the world’s second leading cause of early death — right behind high blood pressure. In 2023 alone, it claimed 7.9 million lives globally, including more than 32,000 in Ghana, where the average person is losing nearly nine months of life expectancy to dirty air. In this episode of Clean Air Report Ghana on Joy 99.7 FM, host Michael Asharley speaks with Dr. Pallavi Pant, Head of...

Award-winning journalist Albert Oppong Ansah joins host Michael Asharley to share how powerful storytelling can help Ghana breathe cleaner air. In this episode of Clean Air Report Ghana , Albert — a reporter with the Ghana News Agency and a New Narratives Clean Air Fellow — reflects on his recent win as Best in News Reporting (Online) at the 29th Ghana Journalists Association Awards. It was the se...

Michael Asharley explores a stunning global paradox: while air pollution kills nearly 8 million people a year, funding for cleaner air is rapidly disappearing. Between 2022 and 2023 alone, support for outdoor air quality in sub-Saharan Africa dropped by a staggering 91%. Michael speaks with Jacob Johnson Attakpah from the Green Africa Youth Organization about how these funding cuts are hitting gra...

Air pollution kills an estimated 28,000 Ghanaians every year — and costs the country up to $2.8 billion in lost productivity. Yet, as the crisis deepens, global funding for clean air is falling. In this episode of Clean Air Report Ghana on Joy 99.7 FM, host Michael Asharley asks a critical question: why is the world investing less in saving the air we breathe? He breaks down the latest State of Gl...

In Ghana’s gold towns, the danger isn’t always underground — it’s in the air. Michael Asharley investigates a new report by the FCDO, Pure Earth, and the EPA, revealing alarming levels of mercury in the air across artisanal and small-scale mining communities. When mercury is burned to extract gold, it releases invisible, toxic vapour that threatens not just miners, but entire families and nearby t...

What’s taking more years off our lives than smoking, unsafe water, or even HIV/AIDS? The answer might surprise you. In this episode of Clean Air Report Ghana , host Michael Asharley speaks with Tanushree Ganguly, Director of the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) at the University of Chicago, to unpack the latest AQLI 2025 findings. The data reveals that air pollution is now the single greatest externa...

Who’s responsible for cleaning Ghana’s air — the Ministry of Transport, the Energy Commission, the EPA, or your local assembly? Trick question. It’s all of them — and that’s exactly the problem. In this episode of Clean Air Report Ghana , host Michael Asharley explores why Ghana’s air pollution crisis remains unresolved despite decades of monitoring and dozens of overlapping mandates. With more th...

This week on Clean Air Report Ghana , host Michael Asharley connects the dots between the air we breathe and the diseases we fear most. It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month — but beyond lifestyle and genetics, could Ghana’s polluted air be a silent trigger? In this episode, Jennifer Ambolley of The Chronicle Newspaper shares the stories of market women battling breast cancer while working in smoke-f...

Welcome to the first episode of this second season of the program, hosted by Joy News.  This first show introduces listeners to a new cohort of clean air reporting fellows embarking on a groundbreaking journey to inform audiences of the dangers of air pollution. We will also meet some of the experts working to bring changes that can save lives and improve our health. And we'll learn what we c...

Welcome to “Clean Air Report Ghana,”. In this episode:   ·      As air pollution in Ghana increases so do tuberculosis infections. Nearly twenty thousand Ghanaians died from TB in in 2023 alone as experts warn the two are linked. ·      Residents in industrial zones are battling polluted air. We look closely at Weija in Accra. ·      Women are the backbone of Ghana’s globally successful shea butte...

Tens of thousands of Ghanaians die prematurely each year as a result of air pollution and many more are sickened. As Ghana’s population soars air pollution has become a major health challenge that experts say needs an urgent response.  So welcome to another edition of “Clean Air Report Ghana”, the programme the highlights the severe impacts of air pollution and potential solutions.  Coming up, · ...

Hello and welcome to another edition of “Clean Air Report Ghana”. In this episode, ·      Experts warn a growing number of children in slum areas exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution has worrying implications for Ghana’s future. ·      A young advocate embarks on a cross-country trip on a bicycle to bring attention to alarming levels of air pollution.  ·      We look at how poor enforcemen...

Coming up in this episode:  Silence descends over one of the country’s biggest industrial zones as workers say they are afraid to report air pollution. Residents and workers grapple with the effects of air pollution from roadworks across the country. Clean cookstoves protect fishmongers resist from blindness and other diseases. Why are they rejecting them? And... Clean Air Report goes to Johannesb...

Welcome to another episode of Clean Air Report Ghana. Coming up in this edition:  We look at the high price women across the country pay for smoking fish.  As air pollution in Ghana worsens some MPs are on an ambitious charge to address the problem before it gets out of hand AND with vehicle emissions identified as the leading cause of air pollution in Ghana, we find out how we can all help to red...

Picture this: you’re driving down a busy street, surrounded by cars, buses, and trucks. Have you ever stopped to think what’s in the air you’re breathing ?   The World Health Organization says more than seven million people around the world die each year from air pollution. In Ghana seventy percent of air pollutants come from vehicle emissions. In this episode we look more closely at what’s drivin...

Hello and welcome to Clean Air Report Ghana.  Coming up in this edition we meet woodworkers in Kumasi who are risking lives and limb to produce the main component in most of the furniture we use.  Why fishmongers in James Town in Accra prefer traditional ovens over modern clean stoves and the impact of air pollution on their health and we will also hear from an expert on how and why we need to con...

In our very first episode, we’ll explore the multifaceted aspects of air pollution – from its sources and impacts to the innovative solutions and inspiring stories that give us hope for a cleaner future. We’ll hear from reporters who are working with the collaborative newsroom New Narratives, to explore the impacts of air pollution in Ghana and the world. We’ll also hear from experts, government o...