Pollution
- Asia Pacific, Biomass and bioenergy, Environment, Fossil fuels, Gas, India, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Philippines, Pollution, South and Central Asia, US-Israel war on Iran
Public health at risk across Asia as price of gas for cooking soars
Families turn to dirty fuels such as firewood, bringing fears over air pollution and fragility of energy trans…
- Air pollution, Asia Pacific, Cancer, Environment, Health, Pollution, Society, Stroke, Thailand, World news
Chiang Mai’s New Year revelry hit by smog and war-related price spikes
Air pollution caused by wildfires is another blow to northern Thailand’s tourism industry as businesses suffer…
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The bird people of Lake Manchar: surviving in a vanishing oasis
The Mohana of Pakistan’s Sindh province once thrived on the lake but pollution and drought have caused the fra…
- Air pollution, Artificial intelligence (AI), Computing, Environment, India, Mumbai, Pollution, South and Central Asia, Technology, World news
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbour…
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‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest
The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But a…
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Life and death on India’s toxic trash mountains – video
Towering above Delhi’s skyline, emitting an inescapable stench of rotting flesh, are giant mountains of rubbis…
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Delhi awakes to a toxic haze after Diwali as pollution season begins
Air breathed by people in the city categorised as ‘severe’ in quality after fireworks contribute to thick smog…
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Delhi cloaked in smog the day after Diwali – video
Delhi awoke to a thick haze the morning after the Diwali festival, when people across the country let off fire…
- Climate crisis, Coal, Cop30, Energy, Environment, Fossil fuels, India, Pollution, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Huge energy challenges’: how can India make the leap to become a green, clean country?
As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generati…
- Animals, Coastlines, Environment, Fishing, India, International law, Law, Marine life, Plastics, Pollution, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, United Nations, Water, Wildlife, World news
Buoyant, the size of a lentil and almost impossible to recover: how nurdles are polluting the oceans
Millions of the tiny plastic pellets are being washed up on the coast of Kerala in India in the latest in a se…
- Air pollution, Delhi, Environment, Farming, Health, India, Pollution, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
How farm fires intensify Delhi’s post-monsoon smog problem
Extreme air pollution from farming fires meets high population density, causing substantial harm to healthThe …
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Living with ‘the stench’: the smelly New Zealand city with an air of despair
The odour from a wastewater plant comes and goes, but locals say it’s worsened after an equipment breakdown th…
- Air pollution, Cities, Delhi, Environment, Farming, Health, India, Pollution, South and Central Asia, World news
‘The air is killing us’: why Delhi’s pollution problem runs deeper than smog season
Leaders of Indian capital must tackle transport and heavy industry rather than seek quick fixes, say campaigne…
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Drone footage shows Delhi cloaked in thick haze of toxic smog – video
Pollution levels in the Indian capital have soared to their highest levels this year, forcing schools and offi…
- Air pollution, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fossil fuels, India, Pollution, South and Central Asia, World news
Targeting India’s most harmful power plants could slash mortality
Study finds about a quarter of health burden comes from power stations that generate just 3% of country’s elec…