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 …
MUMBAI: The most common complaint for which a Mumbaikar visits the BMC’s 175 dispensaries is acute respiratory illness (ARI). The civic morbidity survey shows that respiratory illnesses, including cold, cough or viral/bacterial infection, account for 20% of the patient load at the dispensaries. The BMC’s executive health officer, Dr Padmaja …
Nearly 60% of U.S. children live in counties with PM2.5 concentrations above air quality standards. Understanding the relationship between ambient air pollution exposure and health outcomes informs actions to reduce exposure and disease risk.
Household air pollution (HAP) is the eighth leading risk factor for global disease burden, contributing to 2.9 million yearly premature deaths. Nearly 80% of the sub-Saharan population and about 90 million households in Nigeria use biomass as their primary fuel for cooking and energy needs, which can adversely impact their …
BENGALURU: A seven-year-old boy from C V Raman Nagar, suffering from cough, running nose and sneezing for months on end was advised by his physician to undergo an allergy test. The parents, who had been thinking that exposure to air pollution and increasing viral infections could be the reasons for …
Air pollution protesters say they are prepared to go to prison as they step up their campaign against the poisonous air that kills tens of thousands of people in the UK each year. A group of campaigners including pensioners and young parents, were arrested on Monday after targeting the offices …
India, according to a report, incurred over USD 55 billion losses in terms of labour output caused by air pollution in 2013, which is about 0.84 per cent of its GDP, the government today said. India, according to a report, incurred over USD 55 billion losses in terms of labour …
Sunalini Mathew Even if you don’t know the numbers, you simply need to walk into the medical room of a school to know that a nebuliser is standard equipment. With rising outdoor and indoor pollution, high stress, and poor eating habits, asthma is one more ‘lifestyle disease’ so many people …
Researchers have found strong evidence that environmental exposures, including air pollution, affect gene expressions associated with respiratory diseases much more than genetic ancestry. The study, published today in Nature Communications, analyzed more than 1.6 million data points from biological specimens, health questionnaires and environmental datasets, making this study one of …
Of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB), <50% complete treatment. Most treatment failures for patients with MDR TB are due to death during TB treatment. We sought to determine the proportion of deaths during MDR TB treatment attributable to TB itself. We used a structured verbal autopsy tool to interview …
If you have a low-cost air quality monitor at home, you can now be part of a large pollution study to understand its dynamics in the capital. Participants can place the monitor outside their house and send data regularly to a team of scientists at the Evidence for Policy Design. …
NEW DELHI: There were no conclusive data to establish direct correlation of death or disease exclusively due to air pollution, the government said today, but asserted it could be one of the "triggering" factors for respiratory ailments and associated diseases. The government also said it has formulated National Clean Air …
Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015—16% of all deaths worldwide— three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than …
At least 47 million children under the age of five live in areas facing severe air pollution with dangerous effluent density, a report said on Monday. The report by Greenpeace-India, based on data from state and central pollution control boards, asserted that as many as 47 million children live in …
KOLKATA: The persistent early morning fog — innocuous though it may seem — has left a trail of illnesses in Kolkata, including a drug-resistant cough that has been affecting children. Ever since pockets of the city started getting shrouded in a haze from last week, cases of severe respiratory distress, …
As Rwandans usher into the new year of 2018, the ministry of environment through Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) has devised new measures while strengthen the existing ones to ensure Rwandans breath clean air. REMA commissioned a new baseline air quality study that was carried out between August and December …
KOLKATA: The city's air qual-ity index (AQI) finishing ab-ove 450 at 10am, when most of Kolkata's working popula-tion and students are out on the street, has prompted environmentalists and health experts to flag the dangers of the AQI's quirky behaviour. The AQI generally spikes after midnight till daybreak, with the …
KOLKATA: Air pollution levels shot off the charts in Kolkata early on Tuesday, earning for the city the unenviable distinction of having the most foul air in the world. According to the US Embassy & Consulate that monitors particulate matter emission around the globe, Kolkata's PM 2.5 count shot up …
The poor, those with outdoor jobs, cardiovascular and respiratory conditions are likely to be the most vulnerable Prolonged heat-wave conditions–in other words, a summer lasting up to eight months–could be the new norm by the 2070s for the Gangetic plains, if greenhouse-gas emissions are not cut to limit the global …
A new study released on Thursday titled "Burden of Disease Attributable to Major Air Pollution Sources in India" has found that residential biomass burning or use of solid fuels inside homes followed by coal combustion contributes to highest PM 2.5 exposure in both cities and villages. The study by IIT …
Delhi registered an alarming increase in deaths due to respiratory ailments in 2016, the year the national Capital witnessed its worst pollution crisis in at least two decades, according to data released by the state government on Saturday. Deaths linked to breathing disorders shot up by 40% in 2016 from …
