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Smog drops from hazardous to unhealthy in Pakistan's Lahore
Nov 17, 2024 (AFP)
The AQI index reached a daily average of 243, still "very unhealthy" but below the highest level of 300 considered "hazardous". The level of PM2.5 particles was...
S.Africa president orders inspections, clean up after child raticide deaths
Nov 15, 2024 (AFP)
In a televised evening address to the nation, Ramaphosa said shops implicated in deaths of the children would be closed immediately and local authorities had to...
Nature pays price for war in Israel's north
Nov 15, 2024 (AFP)
In the Hula Valley, home to a unique migration sanctuary for birds, a flock of common cranes and their cacophony of calls fill the air -- but smoke billows in t...
Pakistan extends school closures in Punjab's smog-hit cities
Nov 15, 2024 (AFP)
The province, home to more than half of Pakistan's 240 million people, last week closed all schools until November 17 in major cities enveloped by smog. Air qua...
Pakistan's policies hazy as it fights smog
Nov 15, 2024 (AFP)
But environmental activists and experts warn that the efforts hardly begin to fix a problem that leaves the country choking every winter, with Punjab, a region ...
India's capital shuts all primary schools due to smog
Nov 14, 2024 (AFP)
New Delhi and the surrounding metropolitan area, home to more than 30 million people, consistently tops world rankings for air pollution in winter. The smog is ...
Toxic smog smothering India's capital smashes WHO limit
Nov 13, 2024 (AFP)
Cooler temperatures and slow-moving winds trap deadly pollutants. At dawn on Wednesday, "hazardous" pollutant levels in parts of the sprawling urban area of mor...
Pakistan's record smog triggers anguish and anxiety
Nov 13, 2024 (AFP)
Lahore -- a city of 14 million people stuffed with factories on the border with India -- regularly ranks among the world's most polluted cities, but it has hit ...
Trump picks ex-lawmaker Lee Zeldin to head EPA
Nov 11, 2024 (AFP)
If confirmed by the US Senate as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Trump said Zeldin would be charged with making "swift deregulatory ...
Heat, air pollution, disease: How climate change affects health
Nov 09, 2024 (AFP)
The latest round of UN climate talks begin next week during what is expected to be the hottest year in recorded history -- and in the shadow of climate sceptic ...
Daughter of missing Mexico environment defender pleads for global help
Nov 08, 2024 (AFP)
Both men had spent years denouncing what they saw as the catastrophic environmental impacts and inadequate community benefits of a giant open-pit iron mine in S...
Three Balkan capitals among world's most polluted cities; Toxic waste ship docks in Albania
Nov 08, 2024 (AFP)
In the three cities, the air quality index (AQI), which measures a range of pollutants, spiked above the level of 150 which is considered unhealthy. In Paris an...
Cafe in Libya champions recycling and sustainability
Nov 08, 2024 (AFP)
Lamma, which means "gathering" or "hangout" in Arabic, has become a cultural hub for locals and other visitors, featuring an art gallery that showcases Libyan a...
India's Hindus bathe in holy river defiled by pollution
Nov 07, 2024 (AFP)
Thousands celebrated the festival of Chhath Puja for the Hindu sun god Surya, entering the stinking waters to pray as the evening rays set in the sky. A parliam...
Europe wants ministers at plastic pollution treaty talks
Nov 07, 2024 (AFP)
Observers say progress on substance has been painfully slow in the run-up to the talks in Busan, South Korea -- and at times actively stymied by countries keen ...
Pakistan's Punjab province shuts schools in smog hit main cities: minister
Nov 06, 2024 (AFP)
"Looking at the predicted air wind and air quality index we are closing all higher secondary schools," said Marriyum Aurangzeb, a senior minister in Punjab duri...
Pakistan's Punjab province shuts schools in smog-hit main cities
Nov 06, 2024 (AFP)
The province, home to more than half of Pakistan's 240 million people, had earlier closed primary schools, curbed tuk-tuks and shuttered some barbeque restauran...
Smog sickness: India's capital struggles as pollution surges
Nov 05, 2024 (AFP)
New Delhi regularly ranks among the world's most polluted capitals, with a melange of factory and vehicle emissions exacerbated by agricultural fires blanketing...
Ship with suspected toxic waste stranded outside Albania port
Nov 04, 2024 (AFP)
The Turkish-flagged Moliva container ship -- believed to be carrying around a hundred containers filled with suspicious waste -- arrived in the waters near Durr...
Microplastics increasing in freshwater, directly related to plastic production
Nov 04, 2024 (SPX)
The work is available online now and will be published in the December issue of Science of the Total Environment. "Few studies examine how microplastics change ...
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