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

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Exclusive: Use of toxic plastic beads in treatment works is unnecessary and outdated, say conservationists

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 Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to fossil fuels from its online page about climate change causes

The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods

Study of 11,000 births in New Hampshire shows residents’ reproductive outcomes near contaminated sites

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.

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Dan Turner, founder of Blue Whale Technologies and a veteran environmental engineer with over 40 years in advanced wastewater treatment, stresses that, without real change, the rapid accumulation of plastic waste is not expected to change any time soon.

Urgent repairs are underway on a leaking pipe running under Sydney Harbour with crews battling to secure the 100-year-old infrastructure.