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Delhi schools shut indefinitely as smog worsens
Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)
One of the world's most polluted cities and home to some 20 million people, Delhi is cloaked every winter in a thick blanket of smog. On Saturday, the Delhi gov...
Delhi, Lahore smog forces school, plant closures as residents choke
Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)
Air quality has worsened across northern India and adjacent parts of Pakistan in recent years, as industrial pollutants, smoke from seasonal crop burn-off, and ...
India welcomes back tourists but smog shrouds Taj Mahal
Nov 16, 2021 (AFP)
Around the palatial gardens of the Taj Mahal, air quality deteriorates each winter, enveloping the white marble mausoleum in a thick coat of hazardous smog. The...
'The water is poison': Chinese activist spends life protecting polluted lake
Nov 16, 2021 (AFP)
The 74-year-old strident campaigner has spent his life trying to protect the sprawling Lake Dian in southwestern China, challenging businesses to clean up their...
Delhi government resists call for 'pollution lockdown'
Nov 15, 2021 (AFP)
Air quality in Delhi -- among the world's most polluted cities -- regularly plummets to the "severe" category in winter with levels of harmful particulates at d...
Air pollution in Europe still killing 300,000 a year: report
Nov 14, 2021 (AFP)
If the latest air quality guidelines from the World Health Organisation were followed by EU members, the latest number of fatalities recorded in 2019 could be c...
Delhi shuts schools as government considers 'pollution lockdown'
Nov 13, 2021 (AFP)
"Schools will be shut so that children don't have to breathe polluted air," Delhi's chief minister Arvind Kejriwal told reporters. Delhi is ranked one of the wo...
Indian trash-tackling brothers win children's prize
Nov 13, 2021 (AFP)
The impact of human wastewater in coastal ecosystems
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
However, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have turned their attention and considerable computational power to the subject and its impacts on global coastal ecosy...
In divided Cyprus, UN sees environment as unifier
Nov 12, 2021 (AFP)
The initiative on Friday, which included young Greek Cypriots who have demonstrated a commitment to working with counterparts in the Turkish Cypriot community, ...
Clashes flare again over Tunisia landfill site
Nov 11, 2021 (AFP)
Demonstrations in Agareb earlier in the week, sparked by authorities reversing a decision to close the dump, escalated after the death on Monday night of a prot...
Tunisia city on strike after landfill protest death
Nov 10, 2021 (AFP)
Abderrazek Lacheheb, 35, died early Tuesday in Agareb, in the Sfax region on the central coast, after security forces used tear gas to disperse protesters. A me...
Emission reductions from pandemic had unexpected effects on atmosphere
Nov 10, 2021 (JPL)
A comprehensive new survey of the effects of the pandemic on the atmosphere, using satellite data from NASA and other international space agencies, reveals some...
Israel start-up offers virtual 'Clean Coins' for garbage
Nov 10, 2021 (AFP)
For each bag she fills in the valley near her home, she receives around 10 "Clean Coins", a virtual currency that can be redeemed for goods from participating b...
Tunisian dies after inhaling tear gas at landfill protest
Nov 09, 2021 (AFP)
Abderrazek Lacheheb, 35, died overnight, a medic and a relative said, in the town of Aguereb in the coastal region of Sfax after weeks of demonstrations over a ...
Chile's desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers
Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)
The social impact of rampant consumerism in the clothing industry -- such as child labor in factories or derisory wages -- is well-known, but the disastrous eff...
Pandemic has led to 8.4M tons of excess plastic waste, researchers estimate
Nov 08, 2021 (UPI)
Just over 87% of this waste has been generated by hospitals, though discarded personal protective equipment, or PPE, such as face masks and gloves accounts for ...
Toxic foam covers India's sacred Yamuna river
Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)
The Yamuna is already one of the most polluted waterways in the country but parts of the river, which courses through the centre of Delhi, were coated in mounds...
Residents, activists cry foul over stinking garbage in Tunisia's Sfax
Nov 06, 2021 (AFP)
"The situation is catastrophic," Mohamed Boujalabane, a resident of Sfax, Tunisia's second city with a population of over one million, told AFP. "We can't have ...
Delhi wakes to post-Diwali smog
Nov 05, 2021 (AFP)
At various hotspots, levels of harmful PM 2.5 particles topped 400 on average on the air quality index. The figure is more than 15 times higher than the safe da...
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