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As global climate action threatens to stall, can Australia step up at COP30 in Brazil?

Ten years on from the landmark Paris Agreement, countries have taken big strides in limiting emissions and the clean energy transition is accelerating rapidly. But geopolitical headwinds are growing and the damage bill for climate pollution is rising. Climate action hangs in the balance.

The Conversation

Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’

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

The Guardian - UK

Delhi’s double whammy: Air getting toxic, AQI data under cloud

While Delhi’s air gets worse, questions have emerged around the credibility of the air quality index data in the national capital. Many feel unsure about which government app or website to rely on for accurate information about the air they breathe.

Newslaundry

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Thames Water among six water firms to have bonuses for top bosses blocked

More than £4 million of potential bonuses were banned under new rules on performance-related executive pay, regulator Ofwat said.

Evening Standard

Low-income areas in England and Wales face worst air pollution, analysis finds

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

The Guardian - UK

Air pollution in Amazon rainforest worse than big cities like London and Beijing, new data shows

The cause of the pollution is largely fires set by humans to clear forest for cattle and pasturelands, according to the peer-reviewed findings

The Independent UK

William Barr Discovers the Economics of Tort Law (and Misrepresents the Law Governing Interstate Pollution)

Another reply to the former attorney general on climate litigation that may end up in the Supreme Court.

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India’s capital to suffer ‘severe’ pollution this week

Delhi is world’s most polluted capital city

The Independent UK

Nov 3, 2025: There is no AQI data for the heart of the capital

Delhi is once again covered in smog. But in the city’s heart Connaught Place, the digital air quality display at Central Park faced glitches while the Central Pollution Control Board’s website showed no AQI data was available.

Newslaundry

Drinking Water Inspectorate ordered action over ‘forever chemicals’ risk

Analysis finds regulator for England and Wales raised issues with untreated water at facilities serving millions

The Guardian - UK

Watch: Delhi needs a permanent solution to pollution. Cloud seeding isn’t it

With three failed trials and lakhs of money spent, Delhi’s cloud seeding efforts have all been in vain – this despite the government working with IIT Kanpur in the experiment to tackle the national capital’s toxic air. IIT Kanpur’s director later said the cloud seeding didn’t yield results – or any…

Newslaundry

‘Complete waste of money’: IMD’s former Director General on Delhi’s cloud seeding plans

Ever since the Delhi government launched its ‘cloud seeding’ plan, everyone’s been asking the same question – does it even work? The answer to this question becomes even more urgent after three trials, zero rainfall and the spending of lakhs in the national capital.

Newslaundry

Researchers say this is what Americans fear the most

A hint: It’s not spiders

The Independent UK

Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn

California-based startup Reflect Orbital aims to build a swarm of 4,000 giant mirrors in low Earth orbit to "sell sunlight" to customers at night. Experts warn that the mirrors could mess with telescopes, blind stargazers and impact the environment.

LiveScience

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Euronews

EU countries split over polluting credits for European industry in Green Deal pusback

Negotiations for pollution credits in 2040 climate neutrality goal could further water down the EU’s Green Deal in favor of European industry. A formal decision by environment ministers is due November 4.

International Business Times UK

As India's Capital Chokes on Toxic Smog, Top Doctor Warns: Flee Delhi if You Can Afford It

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.

Newslaundry

As smog thickened, Haryana’s air quality network went dark

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.

The Guardian - UK

Tackle wood burning and road traffic to improve Europe’s air quality, study finds

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

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Newslaundry

Delhi AQI ‘fraud’: Water sprinklers cleaning the data, not the air?

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…

The Guardian - US

Ex-EPA head urges US to resist Trump attacks on climate action: ‘We won’t become numb’

Expanded climate action from cities and states could slash planet-heating pollution despite Trump working against it

Newslaundry

Oct 30, 2025: As haze envelops Delhi, Jahangirpuri shows action plan is only on paper

With Delhi blanketed by haze, Newslaundry visited Jahangipuri, among the 13 pollution hotspots identified by the Delhi government.

Evening Standard

Reed’s claims about Scottish water pollution could have misled public – watchdog

The SNP has now urged the former UK environment secretary to apologise.

Newslaundry

Govt denies air-death link, but Lancet report says over 17 lakh died in India in 2022

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.

The Guardian - US

All operational US liquefied natural gas terminals have violated pollution limits, says report

Analysis of public records comes as Trump administration aims to fast-track approval of new LNG export terminals

The Independent UK

Indian authorities begin controversial cloud-seeding experiment over New Delhi

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

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