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The article reports on the MEGAPOLI project, a program designed to build regional air-pollution models for every city in the world with a population of more than five million. The project encompasses 23 research organizations from 11 European countries in which its scientists hope that it will lead to better maps of potential exposure to harmful aerosols and particles. According to project leader Alexander Baklanov, MEGAPOLI is aimed to understand the bigger picture of the impact of megacities and the feedbacks between pollution and climate.

Reports on developments in environmental management and policies around the world as of April 1, 1999. Includes the expenditures of the World Bank on climate-changing fossil fuel projects; Program expenditures of the United States that harm the environment; Risk of breathing polluted air to urban children; Year 1999 as the last chance for Europe to pass significant ecological tax reform measures.