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Choking New Delhi smog shutters schools and shrouds Cricket World Cup
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Choking New Delhi smog shutters schools and shrouds Cricket World Cup

CNN  —  A throat-searing blanket of smog has enveloped New Delhi, forcing schools to shut and disrupting the Cricket World…
New York is choking on smog. But for these cities, it’s just another day
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New York is choking on smog. But for these cities, it’s just another day

Hong Kong CNN  —  For days, images of New York choking in smoke have stunned the United States, as residents…
Schools, plants close as Indian capital is smothered by smog
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Schools, plants close as Indian capital is smothered by smog

NEW DELHI (AP) — Schools were closed indefinitely and some coal-based power plants shut down as the smog-shrouded Indian capital…
Beijing smog casts gloom over China’s Lunar New Year holiday
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Beijing smog casts gloom over China’s Lunar New Year holiday

BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing was once again shrouded in smog on Saturday after several days of heavy pollution which have…
Micro-pollution ravaging China and South Asia: study
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Micro-pollution ravaging China and South Asia: study

Nearly 90 percent of the 200 cities beset by the world’s highest levels of deadly micro-pollution are in China and…
Smoke haze blankets Sydney as bushfire threat rises
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Smoke haze blankets Sydney as bushfire threat rises

Sydney was shrouded in dangerous haze Tuesday as smoke from bushfires blazing along Australia’s eastern seaboard sent pollution levels soaring…
Mothers-to-be fear for their unborn in smog-choked Delhi
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Mothers-to-be fear for their unborn in smog-choked Delhi

Heavily pregnant Rachel Gokavi spends most days shut away in her New Delhi home, desperate to shield her unborn child…
India’s top court orders halt to stubble burning as Delhi chokes
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India’s top court orders halt to stubble burning as Delhi chokes

India’s top court has ordered a complete halt to stubble burning around Delhi, a major contributor to lethal smog that…
Taj Mahal gets air purifier as Indian capital chokes
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Taj Mahal gets air purifier as Indian capital chokes

New Delhi banned half the Indian capital’s private cars from its roads on Monday as the megacity’s 20 million people…
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