The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
How Will Supreme Court's Decision To Lift The Ban On Firecrackers Affect India's Pollution Capital and the citizens of NCR? Manisha Natarajan Discusses The Issue With Haripriya Padmanabhan, SC Lawyer, Bhargav Krishna, Co-Founder, Care For Air, Polash Mukherjee, Research Associate, CSE, Tarun Sahni, Doctor Internal Medicine, Apollo Hospital.
Pollution levels in Delhi are already high and as we head into winter, it is going to get worse. On the show, we do a reality check on the promises made by governments on the steps that were meant to be taken. Are we ready? Or is there a lack …
Its fight for clean air and it is no longer limited to Delhi. There was a ban on sale of crackers but not on bursting them and the capital woke up to another haze filled morning today. Yes, it wasn't as bad as it was last year, in fact it …
Did the deadly PM2.5 pollutant kill half a million or 5 lakh Indians in 2015? That's the alarming finding of a major new report by the Lancet Countdown. The report estimates that the ultra-fine PM2.5 pollutant was responsible for 1.9 million deaths in Asia and one out of every four …
Air pollution in Delhi has reached critical levels due to heavy traffic jams as well as the recent fire in Ghaziabad landfill site. The condition is expected to worsen during Diwali due to the smoke emitted from firecrackers. \
NEW DELHI : In a move that will impact marketplaces, housing societies and the upcoming wedding season, diesel generator sets were banned in the capital from Tuesday as the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to improve Delhi's air quality during the high-pollution winter months kicked in.
Is it the time for a cracker ban all across India? Even though the pollution levels have risen during the past few days, the overall pollution levels were 32% less than those compared to last Diwali.
Lancet came out with a study that stated that Air Pollution was responsible for 9 million deaths worldwide in 2015, that is 16% of all deaths worldwide. This figure is also 3 time more than the deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. On the show, we also speak with …
India vs New Zealand first T20 in Delhi - Just how difficult and dangerous is it to play at a time when pollution levels are at their highest? A researcher, a cardiologist and a former tennis player's take on cricket and the pollution conundrum
Delhi became a gas chamber today with smog engulfing the India's capital and people forced to breath dangerously harmful air. DNA analyses this worsening situation.
The national capital and many parts of north India become a gas chamber as pollution literally chokes people. Is it time to declare a public health emergency?
Delhi and the National Capital Region is in a state of emergency. With the Air Quality Index at the `Severe’ level people are confronting that hard truth about toxic air - it’s hazardous to health and life. With the Delhi government and various central agencies scrambling to provide relief measures …
