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Beijing will next year ban high-polluting old cars from being driven whenever air quality alerts are issued in the city or neighbouring regions, the city's environmental protection bureau says.
Topics: pollution, air-pollution, government-and-politics, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, environmental-health, road-transport, china, asia
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| UpdatedAt least two people are treated for smoke inhalation as "significant" fire sent massive plumes of smoke across Melbourne's CBD.
Topics: fires, accidents, asbestos, air-pollution, docklands-3008
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As India's capital deals with the crippling effects of air pollution, the people who live there are reaching out to the world on social media by posting smog selfies.
Topics: air-pollution, social-media, environmental-health, world-politics, india, asia
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| UpdatedCrippling air pollution has forced New Delhi authorities to temporarily take cars off roads, halt construction and close schools to reduce smog.
Topics: air-pollution, environmental-health, world-politics, india, asia
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Almost one in seven children worldwide live with high levels of outdoor air pollution damaging to their growing bodies, the UN children's agency UNICEF says.
Topics: air-pollution, climate-change, asia
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A US federal judge approves Volkswagen AG's record $US14.7 billion settlement with regulators and owners of 475,000 polluting diesel vehicles, with the German automaker saying it would begin buying back the cars mid-November.
Topics: automotive, air-pollution, law-crime-and-justice, united-states
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Nine out of 10 people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organisation warns, calling for dramatic action against pollution.
Topics: air-pollution, health, asia
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An international meeting looks set to approve a mandatory system of carbon offsetting for international flights, a big step forward but one that might be hard to integrate with the Paris Agreement.
Topics: air-transport, industry, business-economics-and-finance, air-pollution, pollution, environment, emissions-trading, canada, australia
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| UpdatedA lead campaigner against the airport at Badgerys Creek says the Blue Mountains are still under threat despite environmental concessions, labelling the final Environmental Impact Statement a "con job".
Topics: air-pollution, pollution, environment, federal-parliament, federal-government, government-and-politics, badgerys-creek-2171, katoomba-2780, blaxland-2774, blacktown-2148, nsw
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Air pollution in Singapore rises to the "unhealthy" level as acrid smoke drifts over the island from fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island, the city-state's National Environment Agency says, in a repeat of an annual crisis.
Topics: air-pollution, world-politics, environment, singapore, asia
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The ozone hole over Antarctica is finally "healing" almost 30 years after the world agreed to ban the chemicals responsible for its creation, researchers say.
Topics: science-and-technology, air-pollution, ozone
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Volkswagen will pay more than $13.3 billion to settle claims by nearly 500,000 owners stemming from its US diesel emissions cheating scandal, three sources briefed on the agreement say.
Topics: air-pollution, automotive, united-states
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Victoria's mining regulator says elevated levels of arsenic have been detected in dust samples that blew offsite from the Stawell Gold Mine.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, environmental-management, air-pollution, stawell-3380, douglas-3401, horsham-3400
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The State Government says a central Queensland coal mine which breached allowable dust limits is now compliant.
Topics: air-pollution, environmental-management, mining-environmental-issues, coal, work, states-and-territories, unions, qld, rockhampton-4700, mackay-4740
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| UpdatedAn air quality alert is issued for a smoke-covered Sydney as the Rural Fire Service conducts hazard reduction burns.
Topics: air-pollution, fires, environmental-management, sydney-2000
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Mitsubishi Motors says its president will resign over a fuel economy cheating scandal that has left the Japanese automaker's reputation in tatters.
Topics: automotive, air-pollution, japan, asia
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Nissan is given 10 days to respond to the South Korean Government's threat of a fine for manipulating emissions data on a popular diesel sports utility vehicle.
Topics: automotive, air-pollution, climate-change, korea-republic-of, asia
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Hundreds of taxi drivers protest in New Delhi against a ban on diesel cabs, the latest initiative aimed at improving air quality in the world's most polluted capital.
Topics: air-pollution, road-transport, india
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The Indonesian government is pushing to ban new palm oil operations after last year's haze-belching forest fires were partly blamed on the industry's expansion.
Topics: environmental-impact, disasters-and-accidents, air-pollution, indonesia, asia
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| UpdatedA major study investigating air pollution in the NSW Lower Hunter finds chemical giant Orica is contributing to ammonium nitrate levels.
Topics: air-pollution, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health, kooragang-2304, stockton-2295, newcastle-2300
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Twenty of the world's largest airlines have not significantly reduced their greenhouse gas emissions over the past seven years, new research shows.
Topics: air-pollution, air-transport, environmental-impact, research, united-kingdom
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The most famous boulevard in Paris, the Champs-Elysees, will be off-limits to cars on the first Sunday of every month starting in May.
Topics: air-pollution, road-transport, lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, france
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A global tracker shows air quality from fuel reduction burns is at unhealthy levels in Tasmania's Derwent Valley and higher than any other city in Australia.
Topics: air-pollution, tas
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Smoke from forestry regeneration burns in north-west Tasmania could deter tourists from visiting Cradle Mountain, environmentalists warn.
Topics: forestry, air-pollution, rural-tourism, tourism, cradle-mountain-7306
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| UpdatedStawell residents have expressed concern about large plumes of dust thought to be coming from the Stawell Gold Mine's tailings storage facility in western Victoria.
Topics: air-pollution, states-and-territories, environmental-management, environment, stawell-3380, horsham-3400