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More than 1,200 residents from oil communities in the Niger Delta have filed a $323 million lawsuit against UK-based Royal Dutch Shell to halt their planned exit from the region. In Jan. 2024, Shell ...

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Delhi-NCR's pollution during October-November is largely of local origin, with stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana contributing 14 per cent to the overall PM2.5 levels in 2022, a study has ...

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But Hawley is keeping things fresh by rolling back the clock so that "Alien: Earth" is set two years before the first movie. The first teaser for the series confirmed the year that it takes place ...

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With an air quality index (AQI) score of 273 at 8:30am, Dhaka ranked first in the list of cities with the most polluted air. An AQI between 151 ... third and fourth places with AQI of 257, 199 and 191 ...

The biggest livestock farms would be prohibited from building or expanding in some of Oregon’s most polluted groundwater regions, under a proposed bill backed by environmental groups.

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