Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
In another 10 years, Delhi will record the world's largest number of premature deaths due to air pollution among all mega cities in the world. However it will be another Indian city - Kolkata that will record the highest number of such deaths by 2050. Kolkata will see its number …
Seventy per cent of air pollution in Ha Noi is created by the endless streams of traffic, the Centre for Environmental Monitoring has reported. The content of PM10 (particles less than 10 micrometers in diameter) caused by traffic is four times higher than the alarm rate set by the World …
Evidence presented at the European Society for Cardiology Congress in London yesterday suggested that exposure to pollutants can push up the risk of heart attacks by up to five per cent - with the effects being felt within a day. Levels of air pollution have been illegally high in 16 …
Health concerns including for asthma, allergic pink eye and worsening lung disease worry residents in Nevada, Wyoming and even New Mexico A smoky haze filled Nevada’s Humboldt Valley on Friday, hundreds of miles away from dozens of wildfires raging across the western United States. In downtown Battle Mountain between the …
There can be no question that the epic story of our time is our struggle to endure against the threatening demons of our own creation. In that story, China must be the sleeping giant. As the story opens, the giant awakens, searching for a way to improve the livelihood of …
As part of the Administration's Climate Action Plan – Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued two proposals to further reduce emissions of methane-rich gas from municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. Under today’s proposals, new, modified and existing landfills would begin collecting and controlling landfill …
Air pollution is killing about 4,000 people in China a day, accounting for one in six premature deaths in the world’s most populous country, a new study finds. Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, calculated about 1.6 million people in China die each year from heart, lung and stroke …
According to Central Pollution Control Board trends, air quality in Vijayawada is worse than in Vizag and Hyderabad According to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the deaths due to lung diseases in India were on the rise accounting for 11 per cent of the total deaths. As …
NAGPUR: The World Health Assembly of World Health Organization that concluded a few days ago expressed concern about the increasing burden of diseases and deaths due to air pollution. Health experts are worried about professionals like traffic police who are exposed to outdoor air pollution all through the day, making …
As the city's air goes from bad to unbreathable, expats can talk about returning home, but for people heavily invested here—native-born Delhiites and others who have built up their careers and raised families in it—there's no escape. The falling air quality is taking a toll on the health of lakhs …
Gardiner Harris was the South Asia correspondent of the New York Times for the last three years. He writes a very grim account of pollution in Delhi. Many will feel Harris's account is exaggerated, but if this is how expats feel about the city's air, there is a clear risk …
MUMBAI: A politician and an environmental organization had petitioned Union and state government authorities over a decade ago against allowing coal handling on Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) land. TOI has reported on the extent to which toxic mountains of over one lakh tonnes of coal lying on port land has …
Bengaluru: Ten-year-old Tanisha K, a resident of Vijayanagar in West Bengaluru, ends up in hospital every few weeks with breathing difficulties. She developed the problem a couple of years ago after she started school. Doctors traced the ailment to the air she inhales while commuting to school every morning in …
Studies have shown that both air pollution and impaired lungs can cause cognitive deficits. A new study shows that air pollution directly affects cognition and is not mediated by lung function.
Recent studies have associated air pollution to rise in chronic disease such as heart attack, strokes, diabetes, hypertension, cancer to mention but a few. But scientists have found that extracts of the leaves, fruits, seeds and bark of avocado can protect the body from the damages of air pollution. Botanically …
Studies have shown that both air pollution and impaired lung function can cause cognitive deficits, but it was unclear whether air pollution diminishes cognition by reducing breathing ability first or whether air pollution represents an independent risk factor for cognitive deficit. Now a new study conducted by German and Swiss …
A new study from King's College London and the University of Nottingham has found an association between the amount of vitamin E in the body, exposure to particulate pollution and lung function. The paper adds to growing evidence from previous studies suggesting that some vitamins may play a role in …
NEW DELHI: More than a third of schoolchildren in four big cities of India suffer from reduced lung capacity, with Delhi showing the worst results, claims a new study whose results could be pointing to how air pollution is impacting the health of kids in urban India. In the survey, …
MUMBAI: One in four Mumbai schoolchildren possibly has poor lung function, according to a multi-city survey released on the eve of World Asthma Day on Monday. The outlook is grimmer if one considers the national average: 35% of the surveyed children had poor lung function. The survey, covering 2,000 children …
India's government launched a new air quality index on Monday, under intense pressure to act after the World Health Organization declared New Delhi the world's most polluted capital. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government would publish air quality data for 10 cities, amid growing public concern over the impact …
