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 …
CSE had described the situation as alarming and the smog episode as the worst in 17 years The November-2016 smog episode in Delhi, when air pollution had hit perilous levels, might have temporarily triggered a "spike" in the rate of death in the national capital, according to experts. In the …
Ahmedabad: Persistent cold and cough and acute breathing problems occurring frequently? Act before it's too late and check whether you have asthma. Thanks to increasing levels of air pollution in addition to environmental changes and weather changes, the number of asthma cases are on the rise and medical experts have …
Nagpur: The spate of construction activities in the city, be it cement road works, metro or building construction, is proving detrimental to asthma patients. Their disease aggravates due to increased dust particles in the air. Pulmonologists are demanding the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) should enforce construction norms effectively to minimize …
As the World Asthma Day is marked tomorrow, medical experts have urged the Federal Government to subsidise medications on the ailment and create specialised centres to manage it. The international day is marked to improve asthma awareness and care around the world. The theme of this year’s event is “You …
In a first, a malaria therapy made from the dried leaves of an Asian plant has successfully cured 18 critically ill patients, scientists say . The findings may help fight the growing problem of drug-resistant malaria. A physician in the Democratic Republic of Congo opted for the therapy from the …
KOCHI: Data From Air Pollution Monitoring Stations Show High Suspended Particulate Matter . Quality of air in many parts of the state is getting worse every day resulting in severe health issues, but people are yet to make a connection between the two, health and environment experts said. Children remain …
Air pollution has increased significantly in the last 25 years, and that’s having health consequences especially in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in The Lancet medical journal. Researchers found that air pollution – specifically, the small particles measured as less …
The study highlights the increasing risk of heart disease as good cholesterol decreases. Hyderabad: Air pollution, especially from vehicular exhausts, reduces the good cholesterol in the body, according to a recent study published in the April edition of the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. The study highlights the increasing …
Kenya’s shift to renewable energy sources presents a lucrative and expanding market for solar equipment. This is according to Shenzhen Power Solution Limited Vice-President Susan Lee, who spoke to Xinhua news at an energy and power expo, held in Nairobi. "Our main focus [is] in household solar solutions that are …
In what appears to be an outcome of changing weather conditions, the pattern of allergies affecting people is showing a new trend in the city. Problems like allergic conjunctivitis, allergic rhinitis and eczema have started appearing in the months of February, March and April. Earlier, such allergies were generally reported …
A recent research studied the impact of B vitamins in lessening the impact of fine particle pollution on cardiovascular disease. The findings, conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. , are published online in the Nature Publishing Group journal, Scientific Reports. Healthy non-smokers who took vitamin B supplements …
The samples were collected on National Highway 2 to see how much traffic coming in from outside Delhi contributes to the formation of particulate matter. Significant traces of lead was found in ambient air samples near a kerbside monitoring site set up on Mathura Road by researchers from the IIT-Delhi. …
Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said Delhi had experienced 28 severely polluted days during this period in 2016 as compared to only eight in 2015. Delhi had more than three times as many “severely polluted” days in the eight-month period between May and December in 2016, as compared to the …
Every year, environmental risks – such as indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe water, lack of sanitation, and inadequate hygiene – take the lives of 1.7 million children under 5 years, say new WHO report More than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5 years of are …
Interdisciplinary research at the University of Leicester has explored the impact of black carbon on bacteria in the respiratory tract Researchers from the University of Leicester have for the first time discovered that bacteria that cause respiratory infections are directly affected by air pollution -- increasing the potential for infection …
The air Indians breathe is turning more toxic by the day and an average of two deaths take place daily due to air pollution, says a new study. According to medical journal The Lancet, over a million Indians die every year due to air pollution and some of the worst …
Taking extra vitamin D can protect against colds, flu and other respiratory infections, said a study on Thursday which reopened a debate on the usefulness of over-the-counter supplements. A review of 25 clinical trials in 14 countries yielded “the first defi 14 countries yielded “the first definitive evidence“ of a …
Buildings are seen in smog on a polluted day in Beijing India and China account for more than half of the world's premature deaths due to air pollution, a new report on Tuesday said. Noting that India's lives lost to the tiny particulate matter (PM) is "approaching" China's numbers, the …
Hyderabad: Two patients died while undergoing treatment for swine flu at Gandhi Hospital. One of them had been rushed to the hospital on January 11 evening and underwent treatment, but died of acute respiratory attack. Senior doctors at Gandhi explained, “Some patients are coming with a very heavy viral load …
