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Using tort law for environmental protection has a deeper historical pedigree than does resort to administrative regulation.

As toxic air continued to blanket Delhi-NCR, activists gathered at Jantar Mantar to protest the governments’ continued failure to confront the crisis.

Exclusive: Experts say impact on people of colour and those who do not drive is ‘grave environmental injustice’

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Delhi's air turns toxic as a top pulmonologist urges residents to leave the city if they can. Rising smog, lung damage and health risks spark urgent warnings.

As air quality levels dipped across north India this week, Haryana’s pollution monitoring system faltered, leaving many parts of the state without real-time data.

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