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Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated

Officials say an explosion at a hydrogen and nitrogen product manufacturer in Mississippi has caused an ammonia leak and forced nearby residents to evacuate

Researchers measure toxicity of air samples across continent to advise on ‘efficient’ policies to reduce harm

Newslaundry had earlier reported how several of Delhi’s air quality monitoring stations were themselves in violation of basic norms, placed behind trees, beside walls, or hemmed in by buildings that obstruct airflow within the mandatory 20-metre radius. But it seems even that wasn’t enough. As the city’s air turned poisonous…

Exclusive: More than 98% of fish and mussels tested in English waters contain mercury above EU safety limits

While the Narendra Modi government denies any direct correlation between air pollution and mortality, a Lancet report has said that more than 17 lakh people died in India during 2022 from exposure to PM 2.5. Fossil fuels reportedly played a key role.

Several students and a math instructor at Ozarks Technical Community College also reported feeling sick from strong chemical fumes during campus construction, according to the lawsuit

It is hoped that cloud-seeding over New Delhi will clear the city’s toxic air

A week after The Times of India flagged the absence of pollution data during peak hours on Diwali night, the paper followed it up with a scathing editorial asking a simple and searing question: How serious is India about its air?