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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 Guardian - UK

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 Conversation

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

The Independent UK

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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.

Newslaundry

Aussies' latest car choices are driving down pollution

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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.

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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 Conversation

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

The Independent UK

French tap water tainted by widespread forever chemicals, study finds

France's drinking water is contaminated with PFAS "forever chemicals" in 92 percent of samples, a nationwide study has found, revealing the scale of pollution from substances that do not break down in the environment.

Radio France Internationale

Dec 4, 2025: AQI in Vasant Kunj is significantly worse than official data

For today’s AQI, Newslaundry visited Vasant Kunj in South Delhi. The nearest air quality monitoring station at Sri Aurobindo Marg, operated by the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, showed an AQI reading of 283 at 9 am, which falls in the ‘Poor’ category. But when we deployed our portable air quality…

Newslaundry

Trump says he will repeal Biden-era fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks

Move marks president’s latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and support for cleaner-running vehicles

The Guardian - US

Could electric vehicle battery waste fix concrete’s carbon problem?

Imagine waking up in 2040 to unusually quiet streets. By then, an estimated 60% of vehicles worldwide could be electric, cutting air pollution and noise in cities. But the shift to cleaner transport comes with a lesser-known problem – a huge rise in mining waste.

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The Independent UK

Trump plans to weaken vehicle mileage rules that limit air pollution

President Donald Trump is expected to announce a proposal to weaken vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry

Newslaundry

‘We have to live with air pollution’: Delhi’s athletes, parents and coaches feel they have no choice

Sitting in his chair at a cricket ground in West Delhi’s Shakurpur, 73-year-old Shrawan Kumar watches around 50 school-going boys and girls rotate through their drills. The stern but good-humoured coach seems unbothered by the haze settling over the ground.

The Independent UK

Delhi police accuse anti-pollution protesters of having Maoist ties as smog crisis continues

Several people were arrested from a protest held at Delhi’s India Gate organised by student and climate groups

The Guardian - UK

Reuse and return schemes could help eliminate plastic pollution in 15 years, says report

Pew Charitable Trusts finds plastic pollution will more than double globally by 2040 unless action taken

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A Second Round with William Barr on Litigation Over Interstate Pollution

Whatever the merits of climate tort suits (or lack thereof), the argument they are preempted does not hold up.

The Independent UK

Renowned astronomers push to protect Chile's cherished night sky from an industrial project

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock from around the world to study the origins of the universe in this inhospitable desert along the Pacific coast

Texas Observer

Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds

Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial projects related to oil and gas in Texas, most of them involved in plastics production.

The Guardian - US

Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’

Polluting facilities in Monterrey, which has close ties to the US, are pumping toxic heavy metals into the city’s air and threatening residents’ health

The Guardian - UK

UK and Europe’s hidden landfills at risk of leaking toxic waste into water supplies

Exclusive: Rising flood risks driven by climate change could release toxic waste from ageing sites – posing threats to ecosystems

The Guardian - UK

People living along polluted Thames file legal complaint to force water firm to act

Residents claim raw sewage and poorly treated effluent as result of Thames Water’s failings are threat to health

The Independent UK

Wood-burning stoves face stricter rules under Labour plan to tackle air pollution

Defra officials say standards could be tightened for new stoves to lower emissions

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