Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
This new report published by the the UNICEF Office of Research details both the accelerating global threats to children, as well as the urgent need to incorporate a comprehensive child rights approach, including directly involving children, in adaptation and mitigation efforts. It estimates that over the next decade, in South …
Seventy-five per cent of the houses in the country still use the traditional fuels like firewood and sun-baked cow dung for cooking food. The traditional bio-fuels are also used at hotels, schools, army barracks and religious organisations as primary fuel for cooking purposes, according to a statistics. This information was …
Traffic noise has been associated with prevalence of hypertension, but reports are inconsistent for blood pressure (BP). People’s noise exposure indoors might be essential to ascertain effects and disentangle them from those suspected for traffic-related air pollution.
Likuwapokhari VDC in Khotang district has been declared the Indoor Smoke-Free VDC. The announcement was made after Improved Cooking Stoves (ICS) were installed in all 452 households of the VDC. With this, number of Indoor Smoke-Free VDC reaches four, according to the Bal Sewa Samaj, Khotang. The VDC was declared …
The present analysis included 381 women enrolled in the Study of Women and Babies (SOWB) during 2010–2011, from eight South African villages in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. Indoor residual spraying (IRS) occurred in half of the villages. Questionnaires regarding various demographic and medical factors were administered and blood samples …
The number of measurements in indoor atmospheric environment is increasing due to growing number of complaints about the indoor air quality (IAQ). In the past, many such measurements are performed by researchers to test the postulated hypothesis about the effects between the complaints and the sources. The respective buildings generally …
Vehicular pollution is the major reason for increase in asthma cases, say city doctors on World Asthma Day which falls on the first Tuesday of May every year (May 6). A majority of respiratory physicians in the city say that out of the total number of out-patients, around 50 per …
Despite an improvement in the overall TB cure rate from 40–74% between 1995 and 2011, TB incidence in South Africa continues to increase. The epidemic is notably disquieting in schools because the vulnerable population is compelled to be present. Older learners (age 15–19) are at particular risk given a smear-positive …
More people die in road crashes in India than anywhere else in the world. Every year, road accidents in India claim 1,42,485 lives. But there's something else that kills 6 times as many. Air pollution has become the 5th largest cause of death in India, with over 6,20,000 premature deaths. …
University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering has found that crib mattresses expose sleeping infants to high levels of chemical emissions. Specifically, the team analyzed the foam padding from crib mattresses and found that the mattresses release significant amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which are potentially harmful …
From taxi tailpipes in Paris to dung-fired stoves in New Delhi, air pollution claimed seven million lives around the world in 2012, according to figures released Tuesday by the World Health Organization. More than one-third of those deaths, the organization said, occurred in fast-developing nations of Asia, where rates of …
One in eight deaths from pollution are attributed to fuel burned indoors for cooking—a common practice in the developing world. Seven million people die each year because of exposure to air pollution. That's one in eight deaths across the globe, making air pollution the single greatest environmental health risk on …
LONDON: Air pollution has emerged as the world's single largest environmental health risk, having caused seven million deaths in 2012 — 80% of which were from heart attacks and stroke. The WHO announced on Tuesday that 1 in 8 global deaths were linked with air pollution. It recently categorized outdoor …
वायु प्रदूषण से 2012 में 70 लाख लोग मरे: WHOजिनेवा: संयुक्त राष्ट्र की स्वास्थ्य एजेंसी ने बताया कि वायु प्रदूषण के कारण 2012 में विश्वभर में 70 लाख लोगों की मौत हुई है। विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन में सार्वजनिक एवं पर्यावरणीय स्वास्थ्य की प्रमुख मारिया नीरा ने कहा, ‘ घर के …
Air pollution killed about 7 million people in 2012, making it the world's single biggest environmental health risk, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. The toll, a doubling of previous estimates, means one in eight of all global deaths in 2012 was linked to polluted air and shows …
Air pollution killed an estimated 7 million people around the world in 2012, making it the biggest environmental health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. “The risks from air pollution are now far greater than previously thought or understood, particularly for heart disease and strokes,” said WHO …
LONDON: Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a new report from the World Health Organization published on Tuesday. The agency said air pollution is the cause of about one in eight …
WHO estimates that around 7 million people died in 2012 - 1 in 8 of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. The estimates confirm that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk. The new data reveal a stronger link between both …
In new estimates released today, WHO reports that in 2012 around 7 million people died - one in eight of total global deaths – as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than doubles previous estimates and confirms that air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental …
Cooking on open fires and kerosene lighting causes indoor air pollution, which is considered as one of the largest global public health issues More than 30million people would die from diseases caused by indoor smoke by 2030 in Bangladesh, said Veena Khaleque, country director of Practical Action, Bangladesh. Cooking on …
