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Desmond D’Sa was one of seven South African winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, a global award to inspire grassroots activists to take action to protect the planet. Hundreds of fellow activists and colleagues paid tribute to his life and legacy at a series of memorial services in Durban last week.

Delhi was ranked as the world's most polluted major city on the eve of Diwali. Delhi's air pollution is expected to get worse in the coming days. DW has more.

India’s top court decreed that only more environmentally friendly fireworks could be set off this weekend, citing air quality concerns. But environmental activists call it a “green wash.”

<p>LAHORE is choking again, and the government’s answer is to send more machines onto its streets. On Wednesday, its air quality index reached <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2040419">296</a>, putting children, outdoor workers, and the elderly at particular risk.</p> <p>Yet Punjab plans to acquire 30 more truck-mounted fog cannons. These can suppress road

<p>LAHORE: Lahore was ranked the world’s most polluted major city on Thursday, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 419, as air pollution levels remained high across Punjab ahead of the peak <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1950531">smog season</a>.</p> <p>According to IQAir’s live global ranking for 10am to 11am on Oct 29, Lahore topped the list, followed b

<p>LAHORE: Lahore was ranked the world’s most polluted major city on Thursday, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 419, as air pollution levels remained high across Punjab ahead of the peak <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1950531">smog season</a>.</p> <p>According to IQAir’s live global ranking for 10am to 11am on Oct 29, Lahore topped the list, followed b

<p>LAHORE: Lahore was ranked the world’s most polluted major city on Wednesday morning as smog thickened over the city with the onset of colder weather.</p> <p>In the past few years, air pollution has become one of the most pressing public health and environmental crises facing Pakistan. Various <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1871112/government-advises-p

The group working to clean up the largest and most polluted lake in Northland says it is now optimistic about the lake's recovery from an ecological collapse in the 1980s which wiped out most of its aquatic life.

As air quality plummeted in India’s largest city, the government said it would act to curtail the haze that blankets the capital every winter.