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Winter brings weaker winds, more stable atmospheric conditions and, in many places, temperature inversions that restrict the dispersion of pollutants; the World Resources Institute India study also attributes increased waste burning partly to its use for warmth, alongside seasonal waste disposal practices
Schools in the capital of Indonesia’s South Sumatra province switched to remote learning on Wednesday as worsening haze from forest and peatland fires pushed air pollution to unhealthy levels, adding to disruptions that had already affected more than 1.4 million students across the country, officials said. Indonesia has been plagued by forest and land fires for decades but an intensifying El Nino pattern and a prolonged dry season made the impact of the fires especially dire this year. Toxic...
Assessment done by International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation on the vessel’s containers that fell into the sea in June 2025 incident
Indore, which topped the list with a score of 200 out of 200 in the 2025 survey, fell just one point short of Lucknow and failed to retain its position
The petitioner’s counsel argued that the timeline for complying with the mandate to install flue gas desulphurisation systems in thermal power plants has been extended from time to time, and people are facing health hazards due to pollution
Carbon credit financing is making clean cooking affordable and accessible to households across Africa, boosting efforts to reduce pollution.
Official statistics confirm that half of the pollution in Rajamahendravaram city comes from the APL, he says in a post on X, while referring to the alleged evasion of ₹21.34 crore tax by the company to the local bodies since 2016
Malaysia declared an emergency on Friday in a town in Sarawak state on Borneo Island after air pollution breached the country’s emergency-level threshold linked to fires in neighbouring Indonesia. The Air Pollutant Index in Serian, a small agricultural town of just under 90,000 near the border of Indonesia’s Kalimantan province, surged to 521 on Friday, according to Malaysia’s environment department. Sarawak’s much larger capital, Kuching, also showed a hazardous reading of 311. Malaysia’s King...
Foreign minister demands top three polluting nations compensate Nepal for recent disaster.
The notice issued based on earlier inferences of suspected discharge of a white gel-like foam into the river, say PCB officials