Mongolian herder Purev Batmunkh sighs as he picks through waste strewn across a field -- the refuse of an unsightly and deadly waste pollution problem affecting swathes of the steppe.
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Acrid clouds have engulfed India's capital as air pollution fuelled by fireworks and farm stubble burning was ranked "hazardous" by monitors for the first time this winter.

New Delhi is home to more than 30 million people and is regularly ranked as one of…

A final round of talks on a treaty to curb plastic pollution has opened, with deep differences between nations emerging almost immediately.

Plastic pollution is so ubiquitous that it has been found in clouds, the deepest ocean trenches and even human breastmilk.…

Bangkok authorities are using planes to drop water and ice on smog in an attempt to control dangerous air pollution. The level of cancer-causing microparticl...

The toxic smog that settles over the Mongolian capital every winter has been a suffocating problem for more than a decade that successive governments have failed to dispel. Respiratory illness cases have risen steadily, with pneumonia the second leading cause…

Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution have fallen apart as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle ...