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Illegal farm fires fuel Indian capital's smog misery
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 19, 2024 The illegal burning of farm fields in northern India reached a record high this season, fuelling a toxic smog choking millions including in the capital New Delhi, government monitors said Tuesday. The northern state of Punjab - an agriculture hub often dubbed as "India's wheat bowl" - recorded 1,251 farm fires on Monday, according to the government-run Punjab Remote Sensing Centre. Tens of thousands of farmers around the capital in Punjab and Haryana states burn their crop residue at the start ... read more |
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India's capital shuts schools as 'death trap' smog chokes cityNew Delhi (AFP) Nov 18, 2024 India's capital New Delhi switched schools to online classes Monday until further notice as worsening toxic smog surged past 60 times the World Health Organization's recommended daily maximum. ... more
India's capital shuts schools because of smogNew Delhi (AFP) Nov 18, 2024 India's capital New Delhi switched schools to online classes Monday until further notice because of worsening toxic smog, the latest bid to ease the sprawling megacity's health crisis. ... more 
India's capital shuts schools as smog exceeds 60 times WHO limitNew Delhi (AFP) Nov 18, 2024 India's capital New Delhi switched schools to online classes Monday until further notice as worsening toxic smog surged past 60 times the World Health Organization's recommended daily maximum. ... more 
Smog drops from hazardous to unhealthy in Pakistan's LahoreIslamabad (AFP) Nov 17, 2024 The air quality in Pakistan's smog-choked city of Lahore on Sunday fell below the threshold considered "hazardous" for humans for the first time in two weeks. ... more |
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Pakistan's record smog triggers anguish and anxiety Lahore, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 13, 2024 On the streets of Pakistan's second biggest city, smog stings eyes and burns throats. Inside homes, few people can afford air purifiers to limit the damage of toxic particles that seep through doors and windows. ... more 
Toxic smog smothering India's capital smashes WHO limitNew Delhi (AFP) Nov 13, 2024 Residents of India's capital New Delhi choked in a blanketing toxic smog Wednesday as worsening air pollution surged past 50 times the World Health Organization's recommended daily maximum. ... more 
Trump picks ex-lawmaker Lee Zeldin to head EPAWashington (AFP) Nov 11, 2024 Donald Trump on Monday nominated Lee Zeldin, a former congressman and early loyalist of the Republican, to oversee US environmental policy, the latest in a series of swift cabinet choices by the president-elect. ... more
Pakistan's record smog triggers anguish and anxietyLahore, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 11, 2024 On the streets of Pakistan's second biggest city, smog stings eyes and burns throats. Inside homes, few people can afford air purifiers to limit the damage of toxic particles that seep through doors and windows. ... more 
Three Balkan capitals among world's most polluted cities; Toxic waste ship docks in AlbaniaBelgrade (AFP) Nov 8, 2024 Three Balkans region capitals - Belgrade, Pristina and Sarajevo - were on Friday among the 10 most polluted cities in the world, just behind Lahore, Delhi and Beijing. ... more |
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Daughter of missing Mexico environment defender pleads for global help
Washington (AFP) Nov 8, 2024 Brenda Diaz Valencia's life was upended nearly two years ago when the bullet-riddled truck driven by her father, Mexican environmental defender Antonio Diaz Valencia, and lawyer Ricardo Lagunes was found abandoned. 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 San Miguel de Aquila, in Mexico's central Michoacan state. Now, the 39-year-old Diaz Valencia said she is determined to rally ... read more 
Cafe in Libya champions recycling and sustainabilityTripoli (AFP) Nov 8, 2024 In Libya's capital, a cafe's sleek exterior gives little hint of the vibrant space inside, built entirely from recycled materials to promote sustainability in a country recovering from years of war. ... more |
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Heat, air pollution, disease: How climate change affects healthParis (AFP) Nov 9, 2024 Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious disease: climate change poses an already vast yet rising threat to the health of humans around the world, experts warn. ... more 
India's Hindus bathe in holy river defiled by pollutionNew Delhi (AFP) Nov 7, 2024 Sweeping aside thick toxic scum, thousands of Hindu devotees ignored court warnings Thursday against bathing in the sacred but sewage-filled Yamuna river, a grim display of environmental degradation in India's capital. ... more 
Europe wants ministers at plastic pollution treaty talksParis (AFP) Nov 7, 2024 Europe is pushing for ministers to take part in UN talks this month to ensure that the world's first treaty on plastic pollution will be "highly ambitious". ... more 
Pakistan's Punjab province shuts schools in smog-hit main citiesLahore, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 6, 2024 Pakistan's most populated province of Punjab on Wednesday ordered schools closed in smog-hit main cities, shifting them to online learning until November 17, as the country battles record air pollution. ... more
Pakistan's Punjab province shuts schools in smog hit main cities: ministerLahore, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 6, 2024 Pakistan's most populated province of Punjab on Wednesday ordered schools closed in smog hit main cities, shifting them to online learning until November 17, a minister said, as the country battled record air pollution. ... more |
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