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European Court Rules Italy Violated Right To Life

European Court of Human Rights rules Italy violated residents' right to life due to toxic waste pollution in Naples. Camorra mafia's illegal waste disposal...

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Stars align for Heathrow third runway but Supreme Court may put the fast-warming planet first

Commentary: The battleground on expansion of the west London airport will be climate change not air pollution or noise blighting the lives of local residents

Evening Standard

In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why

Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on

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Bangkok to step up haze fight

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will ask the government to declare Bangkok as an air pollution control area as PM2.5 levels are expected to surge again over the next seven days.

Bangkok Post

Things to know about the Trump administration order on car and pickup fuel economy

Hours after being sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy took aim at the main way the federal government regulates miles per gallon for cars and pickup trucks — also a principal way that it regulates air pollution and addresses climate change

The Independent UK

What would Heathrow third runway mean for pollution, emissions and noise?

As UK chancellor backs expansion at London’s biggest airport, we assess the possible environmental impacts

The Guardian - UK

Winter health tips: Protect yourself from viruses, air pollution

Winters are peculiarly adverse in northern India due to western disturbances and the snow fall in the Himalayas. Delhi-NCR region is particularly affected due to heavy air pollution with AQI(Air quality Index) often staying above 300 coupled with biomass fuel and crop burning creating an environment conducive to the spread…

The Times of India

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Water companies to invest £22bn in wide-ranging programme to protect environment

A programme of 24,000 actions will tackle pollution, clean up rivers and improve bathing spots, the Environment Agency has said.

Evening Standard

Produce in home gardens near PFAS plant in US contain dangerous levels of chemicals

Research provides more evidence that food is a potentially overlooked exposure route to toxic ‘forever chemicals’

The Guardian - US

Spanish fishers in Galicia report ‘catastrophic’ collapse in shellfish stocks

Climate crisis and pollution reported as possible reasons for dramatic fall in numbers of cockles, clams and mussels

The Guardian - UK

£400m for innovative water schemes to tackle pollution, leaks and climate change

Regulator Ofwat announced the doubling of funding for its Innovation Fund which has already funded concrete printing, pipebots and nature schemes.

The Independent UK

Study projects millions of European heat deaths as world warms

A new study finds that extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions

The Independent UK

Notorious US chemical plant polluting water with toxic PFAS, lawsuit claims

Complaint says Chemours factory dramatized in Hollywood movie Dark Waters continues to pollute West Virginia river

The Guardian - US

Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at sewage plants that weren’t carried out

Analysis by campaign group finds utility company had highest rate of ‘no-flow’ samples of any water and sewerage firm in 2024

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Asian capital makes public transport completely free to combat smog

Rising smog in Bangkok linked to car emissions, with authorities aiming to reduce private car use to curb pollution

Radio France Internationale

Nice to ban cruise ships in fight against overtourism and pollution

The mayor of Nice is moving to ban large cruise ships from docking in its port, aiming to tackle pollution and overtourism. The decision mirrors Venice's 2021 ban, introduced to protect its fragile environment and infrastructure.

Newslaundry

Delhi CM Atishi on unkept jobs promise, AAP’s ‘soft Hindutva’, Kejriwal’s future

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi Singh is confident that the Aam Aadmi Party will return to power in the national capital. In an exclusive conversation with Sreenivasan Jain, she talks about her government’s efforts to tackle pollution, the jobs it had promised, her party’s “soft Hindutva”, its politics around Rohingya immigrants,…

Newslaundry

‘Pollution in Noida as bad as Delhi’: Saurabh Bhardwaj questions timing of NL air campaign

“This campaign should be run during the UP elections too. Pollution in Noida and Greater Noida is as bad as Delhi’s. You should have this agenda during the Haryana polls too because Haryana’s air is equally bad.”

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The Independent UK

Thai authorities seek to ease air pollution in capital by offering free public transport

Thai authorities have made travel by public transport in Bangkok free for a week, the latest tactic to try to tackle soaring levels of air pollution that have already seen hundreds of schools closed and employees working from home

Bangkok Post

PM orders week of free public transport to combat PM2.5

Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has ordered free public transport in Bangkok for one week, starting today, in response to worsening air pollution as dust levels have surged across all districts of the capital.

InsideEVs

'You're Going To Be In Rough Shape': Rivian CEO To Rivals Backing Off EVs

On his first day in office on Monday, President Donald Trump declared war on the electric car. In an executive order, Trump signaled his intention to roll back the $7,500 subsidy for clean-car purchases, loosen tailpipe pollution regulations and, broadly speaking, take a hatchet to Biden-era policies that are helping…

The Conversation

Wood-burning stoves are a serious problem for your health – and the environment

There is something cosy and appealing about settling down next to a roaring fire in winter but, every year, nearly 61,000 premature deaths in Europe are caused by air pollution as a result of people burning wood or coal to heat their homes.

The Guardian - UK

How dementia could be linked to air pollution in early life

Scottish researchers find childhood pollution a likely factor, but association with mid-life air quality less clear

Al Jazeera

Air pollution in Thailand’s Bangkok forces more than 350 schools to close

Thai capital ranked as eighth-most polluted city worldwide as microparticles levels soar.

International Business Times

Bangkok Air Pollution Forces 352 Schools To Close

Air pollution in the Thai capital forced the closure of more than 350 schools on Friday, city authorities said, as Bangkok was ranked the world's seventh-most polluted major city by air quality monitor IQAir.

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