Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
CSE warns Delhi: time to breathe easy over, air pollution reaching critical levels again in city. We need to act fast to recover our right to clean air. Delhi will wake up this winter to more smog and pollution; more wheeze and asthma. City is on the verge of losing …
Air quality data generated by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) for 2007 under the National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP) presents deadly facts about air pollution levels in Indian cities. Centre for Science and Environment has analysed the official data to assess the state of air quality and trend …
This study estimates the monetary benefits to individuals from health damages avoided as a result on reductions in air pollution in the urban industrial city of Kanpur in India. A notable feature of this study is that it uses data from weekly health-diaries collected for three seasons. For measuring monetary …
This report is the second in the series and is based on the visit of the EPCA members to Kanpur on June 11, 2004 to review the status of the action plan submitted to the Hon
This is a report on the status of the implementation of the Supreme Court orders on preventing truck traffic from entering Delhi that are not destined for loading or offloading in the city. The Hon
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that concentrations of six major pollutants have decreased, although almost one in four Americans continue to live in areas where at least one of them cause the air to be unhealthy.
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M.C. Mehta vs Union Of India & Others on 29 April, 1999 regarding rising vehicular pollution in the National Capital Region (NCR). Bhure Lal Committee in its Report submitted to Supreme Court on April 1, 1999 has indicated that …
The air pollution levels in Delhi are showing no signs of decreasing. High temperatures have doubled the ozone levels over permissible limits in some parts of the city in the last 10 days. Ozone causes inflammation in the lungs and reduces lung function. It also causes chest pain, coughing and …
India has the uncomfortable honour of being one of the most polluted countries in the world with 13 of its cities on that list, and the national capital prominently on it. An alarming number of school children have asthma or other respiratory disorders in spite of efforts to enforce guidelines …
This week's debate on The Big Fight focusses on questions raised by New York Times correspondent, Gardiner Harris on whether it is ethical for parents to raise their children in an environment that could be potentially hazardous to their children's health. Mr Harris raised the issue of air pollution as …
As pollution levels trigger alarm bells, the NGT and Supreme Court crack the whip to reign in pollution from Rothang pass to New Delhi. http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/clean-air-my-right/clean-air-my-right-pollution-endangering-tourism-in-rohtang-pass-and-delhi/371091
There's something in the air that has many of us worried. It's what called particulate matter that's leading to numerous health issues. How is it that we care about healthy food and safe drinking water but do nothing about clean air to breathe? It's time to get talking, understanding and …
वायु की गुणवत्ता के मामले में दुनिया के सबसे खराब 178 देशों में भारत का 174वां स्थान है। इसलिए एनडीटीवी ने वायु प्रदुषण के खिलाफ मुहिम ताकी सांस लेने के लिए मिलती रहे साफ हवा... http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/breathe-clean/ndtv-s-campaign-against-air-pollution/376653
Chennai does the unthinkable and crosses Delhi to become the most polluted city. With governments struggling to explain why we are breathing killer air, is pollution even a priority issue? We debate on Left, Right and Centre. http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/left-right-centre/pollution-in-our-cities-does-anyone-care/375200
