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Supreme Court Criticizes Government for Slow Response As Delhi Battles Toxic Air
As Delhi's air quality plummeted to "severe plus" category on Monday, the Supreme Court of India pulled up the authorities for delayed responses. The Apex Court instructed authorities that the Stage IV measures of the Graded Response...
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Delhi: Odd-even Rule To Make Comeback? | Delhi Pollution Crisis
Residents Of The Indian Capital Continue To Reel Under The Pollution Crisis, As Central And State Authorities Scramble To Implement Course Correction Measures.. Delhi Government Has Announced A 'work From Home' For 50 Per Cent Of Government
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Pesticides: a health hazard for Europeans?
In Charente-Maritime, France, rising child cancer cases are suspected to be linked to pesticide exposure. Local residents are pushing for stricter national and EU regulations on pesticide use.
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New Delhi: Worst Air Quality Reading Of The Season
As the wedding season approaches in India, Delhi, it seems, is preparing for wedding feasts with a side of toxic smog. Delhi's toxic pollution has turned into a killer and turned the pollution crisis into a health crisis. This comes as...
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Delhi Pollution: GRAP III Curbs Amid ‘Severe’ AQI
Given the declining air quality index and the dense haze that has engulfed the city since Wednesday, the Delhi government stated on Thursday that the third phase of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), which aims to reduce air...
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India: Delhi Shrouded in Toxic Smog as Pollution Reading Breaks Record
India’s capital shuts schools and halts construction after air pollution shoots up to its worst level this season. Watch this report for more details!
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Pollution Levels In Delhi Turns 'severe' Breaches 400 Mark
As the wedding season approaches in India, Delhi, it seems, is preparing for wedding feasts with a side of toxic smog. Delhi's toxic pollution has turned into a killer and turned the pollution crisis into a health crisis. This comes as...
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Nasa Satellite Captures Toxic Smog Blanket Over Lahore, UN Says Worst Effects On Children
Pakistan's pollution crisis is worsening by the hour. So much so that toxic smog blanketing skies is now visible from space. Satellite imagery from NASA's worldview shows a vast, grey smog cloud stretching over Pakistan's Punjab...
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Dense Smog Chokes People In New Delhi & Lahore
India and Pakistan are fighting for fresh air as several cities in both countries are facing life-threatening pollution. The Hazardous air quality has become a major concern for public health and has even initiated a geopolitical spat...
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Pakistan: Lahore's Record Smog Triggers Anxiety and Anguish
In Pakistan, schools have been closed in the main cities of Punjab province, including the capital Lahore, until November 17 in a bid to lower children's exposure to pollution, especially during the morning commute when it is often at...
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New Delhi: Indian Capital Chokes Under Blanket Of Smog As AQI Drops To 'Severe' Category
The Indian capital is choking as air quality continues to worsen. Multiple areas in Delhi have reached ‘severe’ levels in the air quality index, nearing the 450 mark. As winter approaches, air pollution across the city is intensifying,...
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Soaring Carbon Pollution From Private Jets
Private jet travel plays a key role in polluting the environment, so much so that these aircraft used by the super-rich end up polluting hundreds of times more than an average person. According to a new study, carbon pollution from...
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Pak Air Pollution: Schools Shut, Barbecue Restaurants Curbed
Authorities in the Pakistani province of Punjab have ordered educational institutions in several areas to close until November 17, and they have further shifted to online teaching to protect children and curb pollution....
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Thousands meet with MPs in Westminster for mass lobby on climate action
Activists, schoolchildren, faith leaders, parents and grandparents are among those who have united in Westminster to lobby MPs on climate and nature action. Organisers said around 5,000 people from across the UK were planning to meet...
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Thames Water hit with biggest ever fine of £122.7m over pollution and dividends
Thames Water has been fined £122.7 million after two investigations into wastewater and dividend payments – the largest penalty Ofwat has ever issued, the regulator said. The utility giant will pay £104.5 million for breaches of rules...
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Talks to resume over Birmingham bin strike
Talks aimed at ending the long-running Birmingham bin strike will resume on Wednesday. Leaders of the Unite union will meet officials from the city council in a new bid to resolve the row. Union members have been on strike for more than...
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Sir Steve Redgrave delivers letter to Defra calling for action against pollution in UK rivers
Sir Steve Redgrave delivers a letter to the Environment Department (Defra) calling for urgent government action against pollution in the Thames. Speaking to reporters in central London, he called the quality of the water in the River...
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan addressed a round table at Walthamstow Wetlands
London Mayor Sadiq Khan addressed a round table at Walthamstow Wetlands after he announced a plan to clean up the city’s waterways. The Mayor, TfL, London Wildlife Trust and Thames Water announce injection of over £1.8 billion across the...
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Ulez expansion proves successful with reductions in a harmful air pollutant
Sadiq Khan visited a nursery in North London for a recent report that showed London boroughs that opposed Sir Sadiq Khan’s expansion of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) have seen the largest reductions in a harmful air pollutant....
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Thames Water reports 40% rise in pollution incidents as debts swell
Thames Water reported a 40% increase in pollution incidents in the first half as its debts continued to spiral.
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Designer Vivienne Tam Slams 'Too Much Waste' in Fashion
Fashion designer Vivienne Tam says designers have a responsibility to be more sustainable in a world dominated by fast fashion. She suggests many brands are touting sustainability credentials only as a "marketing concept." For her own...
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Mother of girl who died after air pollution asthma attack receives apology from the Government
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, the mother of a girl who died after an air pollution asthma attack, has called for a clean air act after she was given an official apology by the Government as they settled a legal case over the death. Ella...
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Further decline in the coal industry gives rise to a new phenomenon: Zombie mines
A Scripps News investigation has found as many as 1,300 coal mining facilities across Appalachia that have been sitting for more than a decade without being productive and still may not be fully cleaned up. (Scripps News)
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California sues ExxonMobil and says it lied about plastics recycling
California is suing ExxonMobil for allegedly deceiving the public for half a century by promising that recycling would address the global plastics pollution crisis. (Scripps News)