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Environment

No mountain high enough: Study finds plastic in 'clean' air

There they tested 10,000 cubic metres of air per week between June and October of 2017 and found all samples contained microplastics

Members of Delhi government anti-pollution squad report the status of the fire as smoke billows from burning garbage at the Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi, India, November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
World+Biz

Air pollution in Delhi: Indoor air more dangerous than outdoors

Travellers check a departures list at the ticketing level of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport before the Thanksgiving holiday in Seattle, Washington, US November 24, 2021. Photo :Reuters
USA

Air travelers to US set to face tougher Covid-19 testing

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Bangladesh

Dhaka’s air continues to be ‘unhealthy’ as winter approaches

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Bangladesh

Sky is open but little freedom of flying

US Marine Corps General Kenneth McKenzie, commander of US Central Command, speaks during a news conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan July 25, 2021. Photo:Reuters
World+Biz

US offers further air support to Afghan troops amid Taliban offensive

Newsreader Shaun Ley’s shorts and deck shoes get-up tickled viewers. Screenshot taken off a video/BBC
Offbeat

BBC newsreader caught wearing shorts under desk on-air on hottest day of 2021 so far

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Environment

Dhaka’s air quality still ‘unhealthy’ despite rain

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a joint statement with India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh (not pictured) following their meeting in New Delhi, India, March 20, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
World+Biz

US defense secretary urges India to avoid buying Russian equipment

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Environment

Dhaka’s air quality ‘hazardous’

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask walks past an illustration of a virus outside a regional science centre, as the city and surrounding areas face local restrictions in an effort to avoid a local lockdown being forced upon the region, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Oldham, Britain August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Phil Noble
Coronavirus chronicle

CDC revises guidance, says Covid-19 can spread through virus lingering in air

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Crime

4 arrested at Manikganj for killing a man pumping air into rectum

An undated scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round gold objects), also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes Covid-19, emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab and isolated from a patient in the US NIAID-RML/Handout via Reuters
Explainer

Can the coronavirus spread through the air?