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Smog-ridden New Delhi extends schools shutdown

November 5, 2023 - 4:36pm

Authorities in the smog-ridden Indian capital New Delhi on Sunday extended an emergency schools closure by a week, with no...

Climate and Environment

Schools shut as toxic smog engulfs India's capital

By Aishwarya Kumar | November 5, 2023 - 10:18am

Schools were shut across India's capital on Friday as a noxious grey smog engulfed the megacity and made life a misery for...

Climate and Environment

US haze from Canada fires rare and extreme event — expert

June 8, 2023 - 7:57am

"In the last 20 or 25 years, the only event that comes even close to what we're seeing in the past few days was a very similar...

World

Clean air advocate pushes for policy-oriented methods to reduce carbon emission

March 20, 2023 - 3:47pm

Non-governmental organization and climate advocate Clean Air Asia is urging the implementation of policy-oriented methods...

Climate and Environment

DENR notes unhealthy air in Pateros, Northern Caloocan

By Franco Luna | January 16, 2020 - 12:34pm

The latest air quality update from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) shows a marked deterioration...

Nation

DENR: Hangin sa Mandaluyong, Taguig at Las Piñas 'unhealthy' dahil sa ashfall

By James Relativo | January 13, 2020 - 7:27pm

Kahit na sa Talisay, Batangas pa nanggaling, umabot kasi ng Metro Manila ang abo na ibinuga ng pagsabog ng Taal.

Bansa

Giant air purifier installed in central Bangkok to improve air quality

October 20, 2019 - 9:42am

Local authorities in Bangkok have installed a giant air purifier in front of a shopping mall in the city center in a bid to...

News Videos

Indoor air worse than outside

January 1, 2019 - 12:00am

After the Dec. 31 midnight revelry we are very much aware of how bad the air quality is, what with all the firecracker smoke produced.

Letters to the Editor

EDITORIAL - Killer air

May 6, 2018 - 12:00am

There’s comfort in the thought that we are not alone. But being among the 90 percent of people around the planet breathing heavily polluted air does not diminish the urgency of doing more to improve air q...

Opinion

DENR air pollution monitoring useless

By Federico D. Pascual Jr. | October 12, 2015 - 10:00am

WHAT is the point of installing devices measuring air pollution in Metro Manila when the information collected, assuming it is correct and in real time, remains mere dead data locked in a server of the Environmental...

Opinion