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Nature Is Not Healing: Pollution Remained A Problem In 2020

Dolphins did not return to cleaner canals in Venice, Italy this year. Nor was the critically endangered Malabar civet spotted…

3 years ago
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Pollution Deaths In India Rose To 1.67 Mn in 2019

Toxic air killed more people in India in 2019 than in 2017, The Lancet said in a report shared by…

3 years ago
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Delhi’s Poisonous Air A Perennial Crisis Of Its Own Making

Thousands of families who live near a smouldering waste landfill in a northern corner of India’s capital have boarded up…

3 years ago
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Hundreds Sign Up For Delhi Race Amid Virus Surge, Pollution

Some of the world’s leading long-distance runners and hundreds of others will take part in a half-marathon and shorter races…

3 years ago
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Red Light? Turn Engine Off, Delhi Urges Motorists

Choking back exhaust fumes, 22-year-old Rihana Saif stands at a traffic signal in New Delhi, holding a sign mounted on…

4 years ago
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Delhi Records Its Highest Covid-19 Deaths, Hospitals Swamped

Delhi’s COVID-19 deaths rose by a record high on Thursday and it also reported the most number of infections in…

4 years ago
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ICU Beds Full As Covid Surges In Delhi

After his 92-year-old grandmother started coughing and her blood oxygen levels plummeted, Varunn Kaushik took her to two top private…

4 years ago
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Delhi’s Air Quality Falls To Worst Levels This Year

Air quality in India’s capital deteriorated to its worst this year on Tuesday, prompting a social media barrage of residents…

4 years ago
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Heavy Smog In Delhi Raises Fears For COVID Patients

Residents of the Indian capital are enduring one of the worst spells of air pollution in years, data released on…

4 years ago
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Delhi Sees Most Toxic Air In A Year, Raising Covid-19 Worries

New Delhi, the capital city with the worst air quality worldwide, suffered its most toxic day in a year on…

4 years ago
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Pollution Hangs Over Delhi As Farm Stubble Fires Rage

New Delhi’s air quality was at its worst this season on Thursday, as winds heavy with toxic smoke from polluting…

4 years ago
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Trump Calling India Filthy Sets Off Calls For Cleaner Air

U.S. President Donald Trump’s description of India as a filthy place with polluted air has unleashed calls on social media…

4 years ago
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Delhi Residents Worry About Toxic Mix Of Covid-19, Pollution

Families in Delhi with pre-existing health conditions such as asthma are stocking up on oxygen cylinders and pulse oximeters, fearing…

4 years ago
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Scientists Sent Out To Tackle Winter Air Pollution Woes

Authorities have sent teams of scientists out to various parts of the national capital, New Delhi, and surrounding districts on…

4 years ago
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As Wind Drops & Stubble Smoulders, Smog Returns To Delhi

Air quality in New Delhi deteriorated sharply on Tuesday as wind died down just as the burning of crop waste…

4 years ago
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Delhi Loses Cleaner Lockdown Air As Farmers Burn Crop Waste

India’s longest spell of clean air on record came to an end in September when New Delhi, the world’s most…

4 years ago
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Delhi’s Air Quality Turns ‘Severe’ As Toxic Haze Lingers

India’s capital New Delhi was shrouded in a toxic haze for the second straight day on Thursday, and visibility dropped…

4 years ago
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Over Half Of India’s Coal-Fired Power Plants Set To Miss Emission Norm Deadline

More than half of India’s coal-fired power plants ordered to retrofit equipment to curb air pollution are set to miss…

5 years ago
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Delhi’s Schools To Reopen Next Week, Parents Wary Of Hazardous Air

Schools in India’s capital New Delhi will reopen on Monday after closing for two days due to a spike in…

5 years ago
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Schools In New Delhi Reopen, Air Quality Still Unhealthy

Schools in India’s capital New Delhi reopened on Wednesday after closing for two days due to a spike in air…

5 years ago
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Indian Capital Banishes Some Cars In Hope Of Clearing The Air

Authorities in the Indian capital on Monday banished from the roads cars with number plates ending in an odd number…

5 years ago
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  • Politics & Society

As Pollution Plagues Delhi, Calls Grow To Shut Schools And Axe Sport Events

Some doctors and residents urged New Delhi authorities to shut schools and cancel outdoor sporting events in the Indian capital…

5 years ago
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Diwali Fireworks Haze Pushes Delhi’s Air Quality To Severe

Air pollution in some parts of Delhi deteriorated early on Monday to the worst recorded level, officials said, a day…

5 years ago
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Trading Tires: How The West Fuels A Waste Crisis In Asia

When night falls in the Indian village of Nabipur, the backyard furnaces come to life, burning waste tires from the…

5 years ago

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