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At least 13 killed in massive pile-up on Indian highway amid dense smog near Delhi

Thick fog and severe air pollution across northern India has sharply reduced visibility

The Independent UK

U.S. And Mexico Sign Deal To Address Tijuana River Sewage Crisis After Trump Calls It a 'Threat'

The U.S. and Mexico have signed an agreement to address the pollution caused by sewage flowing into the Tijuana river.

Latin Times

A Glimpse Of Mumbai: 29 Powerful Street Photographs By Shanth Kumar

Some photographers have a way of making ordinary moments feel special, and Shanth Kumar is one of them.

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Toxic smog overshadows Messi tour as pollution crisis threatens to embarrass India on world stage

Smog grounds and delays hundreds of flights, including those of Narendra Modi and Lionel Messi

The Independent UK

Toxic smog blankets New Delhi plunging air quality to hazardous levels

Dense toxic smog blanketed India’s national capital Monday, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks.

Euronews

Flights disrupted and construction work banned after Delhi air pollution suddenly worsens

Indian capital’s air quality remains ‘severe’ for third straight day

The Independent UK

Toxic smog blankets New Delhi, disrupting travel and plunging air quality to hazardous levels

Dense toxic smog has blanketed New Delhi, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks and disrupting travel

The Independent UK

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Elon Musk Accused Of 'Environmental Racism' After Building AI Supercomputer In A Now 'Noxious' Black Neighborhood

Elon Musk's xAI faces backlash and legal action as a supercomputer facility in predominantly Black South Memphis operates unpermitted gas turbines, drawing accusations of environmental racism and pollution

International Business Times UK

Govt declares Delhi has had the lowest AQI in 8 years. Rahul Gandhi urges for a debate on pollution

Responding to the Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose's questions about the action that the Union government has taken to address the worsening air quality in the national capital, they claimed that "Delhi has observed the lowest average AQI in the past 8 years, i.e., from 2018 to 2025 (barring 2020…

Newslaundry

Air passengers exposed to extremely high levels of ultrafine particle pollution, study finds

Levels during boarding and taxiing were far above those defined as high by the World Health Organization

The Guardian - UK

Lahore’s toxic winters: how smog is reshaping daily life in urban Pakistan

In November 2025, Lahore, the second-largest city in Pakistan, registered a “hazardous” air quality index of 509, according to IQAir, a global air quality monitoring organisation. The number speaks for itself. Eyes sting, throats burn and headlights blur into halos. In winter, the city feels as though it has slipped…

The Conversation

Dec 11, 2025: ‘Very poor’ AQI outside Parliament, but govt data says otherwise

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry was outside Parliament to document the air quality index (AQI) at 11 am on Thursday.

Newslaundry

These Researchers Are Turning Plastic Waste Into Fuel

Recent innovations could help address plastic pollution.

Reason

From Nike to H&M: How the fashion industry’s ‘big green plan’ is worsening microplastic pollution

An investigation into recycled polyester found microplastic pollution is being worsened by ‘green’ materials.

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Top Dirtiest Countries In The World, According To Pollution Rankings

Explore the most polluted countries in the world based on air quality (AQI) and PM2.5 levels. See which countries pollute the most, plus the least polluted countries.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on waste: the festive season is a good time to think about rubbish

Editorial: Weak regulation is to blame for disastrous failures in relation to pollution. But there are solutions if people get behind them

The Conversation

Toxic air in the home is a global health emergency

After joining the GBD 2021 Household Air Pollution team, an international effort to quantify the global health burden of household air pollution from 1990 to 2021, I expected familiar work: analysing how indoor smoke harms the body. Instead, what first looked like household data revealed a far deeper picture of…

The Independent UK

UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss

The United Nations says the world needs a new way of thinking about environmental crises threatening the health of people and the planet

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Newslaundry

You can rebook an Indigo flight. You can’t rebook your lungs

A reiteration of the obvious is never wasted on the oblivious – Percival Everett, Erasure.I'm a man of contradictions, I'm a man of many moodsI contain multitudes– Bob Dylan, I contain multitudes. On December 6, I wrote a piece for Newslaundry explaining why India has been held hostage by a single airline: IndiGo. It went viral…

Newslaundry

Delhi CM rewrites pollution science at media summit. The follow-ups? Missing like the data

At the HT Leadership Summit, NDTV’s Padmaja Joshi sat down with Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, and then spent the next several minutes watching Gupta bench-press the limits of logic. What followed was a live demonstration of how confidently stated nonsense can still aspire to be policy.

AAP

Aussies' latest car choices are driving down pollution

International Business Times UK

Coca-Cola's Quiet Packaging Shift Abroad Raises Fresh Questions Over 'Greenwashing'

Coca-Cola introduces paper-based packaging in Europe as activists raise concerns over plastic pollution and accuse the company of ongoing greenwashing.

The Conversation

Australia wants to be a critical minerals superpower – but processing is messy and dangerous

In October, Australia signed an A$13 billion rare earths and critical minerals agreement with the United States. This is designed to boost supply of minerals vital to everything from military technology to clean energy.

The Conversation

Iran’s record drought and cheap fuel have sparked an air pollution crisis – but the real causes run much deeper

Air pollution is the latest environmental crisis causing havoc across Iran. Large parts of the country are already suffering from a drought, one of the worst in decades. Its wetlands are dry, and its land is subsiding at alarming rates.

The Independent UK

India’s opposition lawmakers demand Delhi air crisis be declared ‘national emergency’

Millions of people in Delhi alone face severe respiratory risks as pollution levels skyrocket in October and November

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