Agriculture is multi-functional, producing economic goods including food, feed, fibre, and fuel, as well as providing several intangible or non-tradable services to society free of cost. Non-tradable services, unlike economic goods, remain unpriced; as a result, farmers are not compensated monetarily for the benefits of the several non-tradable services they …
A two-year old study released in 2015 by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), (a well-respected non-profit public interest research and advocacy organization in New Delhi) concluded that NTPC, India's largest power producing Coal Company was way below the prevailing standards across various parameters. The study, which analyzed 47 …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued a notice of violation against Volkswagen (VW) for installing a defective device in certain models of diesel cars to circumvent emission tests for nitrogen oxides (NOx). We quantified the health and economic impacts of extra NOx emissions attributable to non-compliant vehicles in …
MPs warn that the uptake of ultra-low emission vehicles is too low to meet national climate change targets The government is falling behind on its commitments to switch a proportion of Britain’s car fleet to electric vehicles, an influential committee of MPs said on Thursday. Take-up of electric vehicles has …
The ability of seven state-of-the-art chemistry–aerosol models to reproduce distributions of tropospheric ozone and its precursors, as well as aerosols over eastern Asia in summer 2008, is evaluated. The study focuses on the performance of models used to assess impacts of pollutants on climate and air quality as part of …
Continuous measurements of airborne particles and their chemical compositions were conducted in May, June, October, and November 2014 at an urban site in Wuhan, central China. The results indicate that particle concentrations remained at a relatively high level in Wuhan, with averages of 135.1 ± 4.4 (mean ± 95 % …
Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained arrhythmia and associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The few studies conducted on short-term effects of air pollution on episodes of atrial fibrillation indicates a positive association, though not consistently. Original Source
A government research indicates that agriculture contributed to 18 per cent of the total emissions of India in 2010, Lok Sabha was informed today. Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said in a written reply that human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), including those from the agriculture sector, are considered to …
A large number of policy initiatives are being taken at the European level, across the United Kingdom and in London to improve air quality and reduce population exposure to harmful pollutants from traffic emissions. Trends in roadside increments of nitrogen oxides (NOX), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter (PM), black carbon …
If you look at the carbon footprint that India has made ambitious reduction commitments for, these are based on fuel efficiency of vehicles – the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFÉ) norms) – where diesel is obviously superior to petrol. Apart from the obvious hardship that Delhi’s citizens will face with …
Less than one per cent of India’s population lives in areas that meet World Health Organisation air quality guidelines. But if stringent air pollution regulations are in place, this could increase to almost 10 per cent by 2040, says a study by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The “Energy and …
Technology treatments that allow certain big cars to be cleaner than their smaller compatriots aren’t available here. Do big cars really cause less pollution than small ones, as Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has claimed in the Supreme Court? Fact is there is no way to ascertain that, simply because car …
Emissions from solid fuels used for cooking cause ~4 million premature deaths per year. Advanced solid-fuel cookstoves are a potential solution, but they should be assessed by appropriate performance indicators, including biological effects. The researchers evaluated two categories of solid-fuel cookstoves for eight pollutant and four mutagenicity emission factors, correlated …
Air pollution is the main cause of premature deaths across the world. A survey done by International Energy Agency revealed that around 6.5 million people die globally due to air pollution, and this figure will increase significantly by 2040. Due to such high death tolls, air pollution is now world's …
A new report by UCL’s Institute for Sustainable Resources for Green Budget Europe outlines options for fiscal reform to tackle air pollution from diesel cars. The report ‘Tackling air pollution from diesel cars through tax: options for the UK' by UCL ISR’s Paul Drummond and Paul Ekins considers higher registration …
An estimated 6.5 million pre mature deaths in the world are linked to air pollution every year with more than half of them being reported from China and India together. India alone contributes 1.59 million deaths to this dismal statistic. The global number will increase significantly, touching 7.5 million in …
BEIJING -- Beijing has rolled out a new policy to give subsidies to encourage renovation of boilers to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides and improve the city's air quality, the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau announced on Tuesday. Renovated boilers with nitrogen oxides emission reduced by at least 50 percent …
An environmental status report of the Kochi Corporation which would feature air, water and sound quality levels is on the cards. The Centre for Heritage Environment and Development and the SCMS Water Institute, Karukutty, will jointly draw up the report which will be an indicator on the environment health of …
The maximum benefits of a fleet modernization program can be achieved by conducting a subsidized scrappage program along with early adoption of BS VI standards starting as soon as 2019. Despite the fact that there are far fewer heavy-duty trucks and buses than motorcycles and cars plying the roads in …
TMC pollution officer Manisha Pradhan shows Teen Hath Naka air quality data on the monitoring system Teen Hath Naka in Thane has earned for itself the notoriety of being the most congested and the most polluted traffic junction in the city after a recent study by the Thane Municipal Corporation …
‘The Dirty Thirty’ report says regulators have yet to take action against carmakers Many of the most polluting diesel cars in Europe have yet to be fully investigated by regulators over their emissions levels, according to a report ahead of a meeting of EU transport ministers on the Volkswagen emissions …
