From disease to cognitive impairments and millions of deaths a year: European air pollution is a huge problem. Luckily, open data journalism is empowering citizens to take action.

In the era of growing information transparency, it has become easier and more prevalent for China's environmental reporters, civil society and citizen journalists to document public outrage about environmental injustices via microblogs even against a backdrop of at-time strong resistance from the government.

Rethink India takes a look at community and alternative journalism in India to investigate how people are using new media to tell their stories.