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Work-from-home order issued as Thai city chokes on pollution

Smoke from forest fires and farmers burning crop stubble has blanketed the popular tourist destination in recent weeks

Health warnings as Bangkok chokes on pollution

The Thai capital has been blanketed for days by a yellow-grey mix of vehicle fumes, industrial emissions and smoke from agricultural burning

Countries meet to halt wide-ranging threats against oceans

Some 600 leaders of government, the business sector, green groups and academics will discuss expanding marine protected areas

China’s rare earth mining in Myanmar fuels rights abuses, pollution, says...

Global Witness found that China had outsourced much of its industry across the border to a remote corner of Kachin state

After Lao rivers run red, authorities order iron mine to stop...

The water turns red when the mines wash iron and release waste into the river, a resident said

Air pollution dims India’s solar energy potential

Between 2001 and 2018 India lost 29 percent of its solar energy potential as a result of atmospheric pollution

Delhi’s choked roads worsen India’s toxic smog crisis

The sprawling megacity of 20 million people is regularly ranked the world's most polluted capital

Toxic smog chokes Indian capital during Diwali celebrations

People across the sprawling city woke to find themselves enveloped in a grey-yellow blanket of haze

Climate ‘reality check’: 2021 global CO2 emissions near record levels

Emissions from gas and highly polluting coal will rise this year by more than they dropped in 2020 due to the pandemic

In Pakistan, green scheme for polluting bus owners inches along

Peshawar hopes to lower its carbon emissions by paying bus owners to give up their exhaust-spewing vehicles

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