air pollution

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environment
Environment and Climate
Live Story

How South Asia’s toxic skies have become a silent killer

South Asia’s skies are choked with smog, posing a severe threat to public health and daily life. Urgent, coordinated action is essential to combat this crisis

Nilosree Biswas
20 December, 2024
Commuters ride along a street engulfed in smog in Lahore on 18 November 2024
Pakistan
Environment
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Smog drops from hazardous to unhealthy in Pakistan's Lahore

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 November, 2024
Thick smoke billows over buildings following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs on October 19 [Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images]
Lebanon
MENA
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Israeli airstrikes are causing a dangerous 'smog soup' in Beirut

Rosabel Crean
01 November, 2024
Mosul- Sulfur
Iraq
Environment
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Iraqi govt takes emergency measures against sulphur pollution

Dana Taib Menmy
13 October, 2024
COP28
Environment
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COP28 host UAE choking from its own 'toxic' air pollution: HRW

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
04 December, 2023
COP28
MENA
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As Dubai hosts climate talks, its air pollution soars

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 December, 2023
UAE
Environment
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Oil pollution from UAE 'putting health of millions at risk'

The New Arab Staff
29 November, 2023
Air pollution
Israel
Perspectives

Israel's environmental violations feed its apartheid regime

Hala Yacoub

Hala Yacoub

13 July, 2023
India smog
India
Environment and Climate
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How North India's air pollution crisis is affecting health

Anisha Mansuri

Anisha Mansuri

17 January, 2023
Lahore
World
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Smog-hit Pakistan city cuts school days to protect pupils

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 December, 2022
Air pollution Iran
Iran
Environment
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Iranian schoolchildren stay home due to air pollution spike

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
23 November, 2022
Europe
World
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Air pollution surges as heatwave sweeps across Europe

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 July, 2022
air pollution
World
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Pollution cuts life expectancy by 8 years in India: report

The New Arab Staff
14 June, 2022
Lebanon
MENA
Live Story

Smog smothers Beirut at the start of Spring

William Christou
07 April, 2022
World Health Organization
Environment
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Poorer countries most exposed to air pollution, WHO finds

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
04 April, 2022
Egypt
MENA
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Egypt, UN agree to develop eco-friendly industrial zones

Thaer Mansour
20 January, 2022
Water scarcity, desertification, pollution, and rising sea levels threaten the GCC's environmental security [Getty Images]
GCC
Environment and Climate
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Tip of the iceberg: GCC's environmental worries pile high

The New Arab Staff

Sabena Siddiqui

01 July, 2021
iran pollution
Iran
MENA
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Iran, pressured by blackouts and pollution, targets Bitcoin

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
22 January, 2021
tehran pollution
US sanctions
Environment
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Air pollution in Iranian cities reaches 'hazardous' levels

The New Arab Staff
16 January, 2021
kabul air pollution
Kabul
MENA
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Kabul chokes on dirty air as temperatures plunge

The New Arab & agencies
21 January, 2019