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 …
Chulhas - cook stoves of poor women who collect sticks, twigs, leaves and every other biomass material they can find to cook meals - are today at the centre of failing international action. The concern is that women are breathing toxic emissions from the stove and that these same emissions …
Gujarat high court on Wednesday asked the state government and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to inspect five units of zero discharge machines installed with gasifiers to reduce pollution in the ceramic industrial units in Morbi. The government has been asked to get these machines inspected through a nine-member …
A comparison among firewood, charcoal and LPG shows that each energy source has its own specific advantages, inconveniences and limitations. They should be considered jointly within a comprehensive, inter-sectoral energy strategy that provides an effective framework for governments. Fossil fuels are required in areas where the ecological limits of woodfuel …
This paper explores energy access, energy poverty, and energy development as energy security concerns confronting Asia and the Pacific. Improved access to energy services is arguably the key defining characteristic of economic development. Lack of access and energy poverty contribute to hunger with women and children spending long hours gathering …
It, along with Nigeria, continues to have low coverage levels for prevention and treatment interventions India continues to have the highest pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease burden in the world, losing 4,00,000 children to these preventable diseases before they turn five, the latest report has revealed. Many more suffer from severe …
Emissions from motor vehicles, industrial processes, power generation, the household combustion of solid fuel, and other sources pollute the ambient air across the globe. The precise chemical and physical features of ambient air pollution, which comprises a myriad of individual chemical constituents, vary around the world due to differences in …
More than half of the people in the world rely on coal, wood, crop wastes or dung for their energy needs, according to the World Health Organization. Three billion people in developing nations depend on biomass in the form of wood, charcoal, dung, and crop residue, as their domestic cooking …
Household air pollution (HAP) is a major contributor to lower respiratory tract infections in children and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults, and remains a neglected issue, according to World Health Organisation. “Reduction in HAP will be added as the tenth target in the global action plan for prevention and …
Environmental degradation costs India about Rs 8 crore, equivalent to 5.7 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), on an annual basis according to a World Bank report released on Wednesday. The report, Diagnostic Assessment of Select Environmental Challenges in India, focuses on particle pollution from the burning …
Environmental degradation is a cause for worry financially too. The World Bank has found that India, which enjoys higher economic growth than many other countries, loses at least Rs 3.75 lakh crore each year due to environmental degradation and pollution. Lost farm produce due to land degradation, productive lives cut …
Maternal undernutrition contributes to 800 000 neonatal deaths annually through small for gestational age births; stunting, wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies are estimated to underlie nearly 3·1 million child deaths annually. Progress has been made with many interventions implemented at scale and the evidence for effectiveness of nutrition interventions and delivery …
The annual cost of environmental degradation in India amounts to about Rs. 3.75 trillion equivalent to 5.7% of GDP says this new World Bank report. But there are low-cost options to significantly bring down the environmental damage without compromising long-term growth objectives. This report provides estimates of social and financial …
Globally, solid fuels are used by about 3 billion people for cooking. These fuels have been associated with many health effects, including acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) in young children. Nepal has a high prevalence of use of biomass for cooking and heating. This case–control study was conducted among a …
Businesses that allow indoor smoking have 19 times higher levels of polluted air compared to that of places where inside smoking is banned, a study report said. The study was carried out recently under the joint initiatives of the National Heart Foundation (NHF), Dhaka Ahsania Mission and Young Power in …
Current policies on containing air pollution, particularly in cities, are regressive Our health is not on anybody's agenda. Or we just don't seem to make the connections between the growing burden of disease and the deteriorating condition of our environment. We don't really believe science, which tells us each passing …
Acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI) account for nearly one fifth of mortality in young children worldwide and have been associated with exposures to indoor and outdoor sources of combustion-derived air pollution. A systematic review was conducted to identify relevant articles on air pollution and ALRI in children. Using a Bayesian …
Air pollution is now the fifth largest killer in India, says the Global Burden of Disease report released by the scientists behind this study at a dialogue workshop organised by CSE, Indian Council of Medical Research and US-based Health Effects Institute. Outdoor air pollution has become the fifth largest killer …
This article focuses on air and water pollution in India's cities, provides empirical evidence to demonstrate the seriousness of the challenges, discusses the relevant policies of national and local governments that are used to address the challenges, and presents relevant political economy issues related to introducing pollution taxes or other …
The report indicates that two-thirds of Indian families, or 166 million households, still use solid fuel traditional stoves and will continue to do so over the next decade, leading to 875,000 premature and avoidable deaths annually from indoor air pollution. It also notes that more widespread uptake of clean cookstoves …
While the government is organising various programmes to mark the renewable energy week, local authorities in Dolakha have declared a plan to make the district free of indoor smoke by 2016. Addressing a programme in Charikot on Wednesday, Local Development Officer Tub Raj Pokharel declared that the district will be …
