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 …
New research from Berkeley Earth has found that air pollution in China is directly implicated in the deaths of roughly 1.6 million people a year. In other words, roughly 17% of annual deaths in China are related to the country’s air pollution problems. To be more exact here, the findings …
PUNE: This year, automobiles in the city are expected to release an estimated 12.6 thousand tonne of particulate matter, which is less than 10 microns in size (PM10), marking a 35.71% increase from the levels in 2010. The drastic rise in vehicular pollution is far more than the increase in …
A WHO report says Amritsar is the ninth most polluted city in the country | PPCB to install monitoring device soon Burgeoning population, increasing vehicular traffic, mushrooming hotels and industrial pollution continue to pose a serious threat to the Golden Temple which was earlier too robbed off its sheen due …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on National Ambient Air Quality Standards, 28/07/2015. The National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) notified by the Government are at Annexure-I. The ambient air quality is monitored at 593 locations in 249 cities, towns and industrial areas across 28 States and 5 Union Territories by …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Vehicular Pollution, 28/07/2015. Increasing number of vehicles, both petrol and diesel contribute to air pollution levels in the country. The analysis of air quality data of different stations in 28 States/ Union Territories collected during 2013 reveals that the values of SO2 in all …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on particulate matter in the air, 28/07/2015. The air quality problem is prevailing in many cities across the World. Some world’s cities are non-compliant in respect of particulate matter while other cities are non-compliant for benzene, nitrogen oxides, ozone etc. The study published by Energy …
Developments in new technologies, concerns over long term fossil fuel security and the need to reduce greenhouse emissions from the transport sector have all contributed to discussion about the potential role of electric vehicles (EVs) and natural gas vehicles (NGVs) in Australia. The Energy Supply Association of Australia (esaa) commissioned …
China saw levels of two common air pollutants improve modestly in the first half of 2015, environmental group Greenpeace East Asia said on Wednesday. Average levels of PM2.5 - particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers that can penetrate deep into the lungs - fell 16 percent in the …
CHINA saw a modest improvement in the levels of two common air pollutants in the first half of the year, environmental group Greenpeace East Asia said yesterday. Average levels of PM2.5 — the tiny particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs and are particularly hazardous to human health — …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on polluted cities in country, 23/07/2015. The ambient air quality is monitored by Central Pollution Control Board and NEERI in Delhi and by Jharkhand Pollution Control Board in Dhanbad under National Air Monitoring programme (NAMP) for three pollutants namely, Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on air pollution from particulate matter, 23/07/2015. An international study released recently has claimed that ‘Foul air killing up to 80 Delhites a day in Delhi. The numbers of premature deaths given in the study are based on the constructive estimates and extrapolations of data. …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on pollution due to suspended particles, 21/07/2015. The National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) were revisited and notified in November, 2009. In line with international senerio, the earlier listed pollutant ‘Suspended Particulate Matter’ (SPM) has been withdrawn from the list of notified pollutants. Instead PM10 …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on pollution in Metro cities, 21/07/2015. World Health Organisation (WHO) released Ambient Air Pollution Database-update 2014 considering only two pollutants, namely PM10 (particulate matter having size equal to or less than 10 micron) and PM2.5 (particulate matter having size equal to or less than 2.5 …
Air-pollution levels in downtown Yangon exceed international standards, city authorities have revealed. Monitoring equipment has recorded 102 parts per million (ppm) of airborne particles, 2ppm above the World Health Organisation’s guideline of 100ppm. Trucks and trains emit exhaust fumes along Strand Road in downtown Yangon. (Naing Wynn Htoon/The Myanmar Times)Trucks …
AHMEDABAD: Amdavadis have developed high sensitivity to variations in climatic conditions and particulate matter of less than 10 micrometers in size (PM10) present in the city air. A new survey has found that 41.7% people suffer from some kind of allergy due to climate change and nitrates, sulfates, organic chemicals …
Retorting to the Centre's claims that old diesel vehicles contribute a minuscule amount to air pollution and that the transport sector is not a major contributor, petitioner Vardhaman Kaushik on Monday told the NGT that the ministry has been using “false data and publications“ which were published after the bench …
Official estimates suggest that over 3,000 deaths each year in London are attributable to air pollution, namely because of man-made toxic airborne particles. London’s pollution levels are also illegal. In April 2015 the Supreme Court ordered the Government to take immediate action to tackle the dangerously high levels of nitrogen …
Congenital heart defects are the most prevalent type of birth defects. The association of air pollution with congenital heart defects is not well understood. We investigated a cohort of 8969 singleton live births in Lanzhou, China during 2010–2012. Using inverse distance weighting, maternal exposures to particulate matter with diameters ≤10 …
All but two of London’s boroughs are exceeding EU limits for a toxic gas linked to respiratory problems, ministers have admitted. Bromley and Sutton were the only two boroughs to meet the annual mean limit for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in 2013, the latest year for which data is available. NO2 …
In the first six months of 2015, Beijing's air quality improved significantly, registering fewer air pollutants and more clear days, according to the municipal environment protection bureau on Thursday. Concentration of PM2.5, airborne particles measuring less than 2.5 microns, which are small enough to enter the bloodstream, dropped to 77.7 …
