The Latest Breaking News from Pollution

In November 2025, Lahore, the second-largest city in Pakistan, registered a “hazardous” air quality index of 509, according to IQAir, a global air quality monitoring organisation. The number speaks for itself. Eyes sting, throats burn and headlights blur into halos. In winter, the city feels as though it has slipped…

For this episode of Aaj Ka AQI, Newslaundry was outside Parliament to document the air quality index (AQI) at 11 am on Thursday. 

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 United Nations says the world needs a new way of thinking about environmental crises threatening the health of people and the planet

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…

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.

The growing popularity of hybrid and electric cars is helping to reduce Australia's transport emissions but big, old cars are slowing progress.

Coca-Cola introduces paper-based packaging in Europe as activists raise concerns over plastic pollution and accuse the company of ongoing greenwashing.

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.