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 …
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 …
ALIGARH: For villagers of Chhota Jawan, adjacent to the Harduaganj Thermal Power Plant, Qasimpur, about 18 km from Aligarh city, there is no escaping the ashes. They wait for a time when they can, like the mythical Phoenix, "rise from the ashes". So heavy is the air in this village …
COIMBATORE: The district administration has received many complaints against several industries located in Chettipalayam near Podanur and Mettupalayam for polluting the environment. Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) officials were asked to inspect the industries and take stringent action against them if they were found to be polluting the environment. …
About 76% of e-waste workers in India are suffering from respiratory ailments like breathing difficulties, irritation, coughing, and choking. Most of these persons are engaged in various e-waste (electronic waste) activities. All recyclers and dismantlers are suffering from breathing problems such as asthma and bronchitis and have a detrimental effect …
Gagandeep Singh Sapra and his wife Harpreet, both avid cyclists, used to cover 40km every day till about a year ago. Now they barely cycle 40km in a week—both have developed allergic asthma that makes it difficult to do any activity involving exposure to polluted air. When their passion takes …
Aim to set up real-time air quality monitoring stations defeated: Draft audit inspection report. Needless delays in executing projects have led to the worsening of air quality across several cities in the country and a new draft audit inspection report shows that the purpose of setting up continuous real time …
To our knowledge, a systematic comparison of predictors of mortality in middle-aged to elderly individuals has not yet been done. We investigated predictors of mortality in UK Biobank participants during a 5 year period. We aimed to investigate the associations between most of the available measurements and 5 year all-cause …
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 …
South Korea confirmed five more cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Wednesday, bringing to 30 the number of infected people since the outbreak began in the country two weeks ago. Two people have died. While there has been no sustained human-to-human transmission, the nightmare scenario is the virus …
Fears for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) reached a peak in South Korea as the first two deaths and tertiary infection were reported Tuesday. Two infectees, who have passed away on Monday and Tuesday, were initially excluded from the quarantine list of the health authorities, and the government is …
Nature threads the very fabric of human lives in remote forest areas of developing countries. Unfortunately, we do not fully understand how ecosystem services (such as human health benefits) could be secured by conserving natural capital. Thus, we analyze a rich dataset on disease, climate, demography, land uses, and conservation …
Ambient coarse, fine, and ultrafine particles have been associated with mortality and morbidity. Few studies have compared how various particle size fractions affect systemic biomarkers. The researchers examined changes of blood and urinary biomarkers following exposures to three particle sizes.
New Delhi: In some good news for those Delhi Traffic Police personnel braving the harsh sun and pollution while managing traffic, the department has decided to equip them with standard quality breathing masks and ultraviolet (UV) protected sunglasses. The first batch of about 200 personnel who man major traffic intersections …
RAJSHAHI: Around 70 lakh people are suffering from bronchial asthma in the country and the numbers of patients are gradually increasing due to various reasons, specialists said at a seminar on Saturday in Rajshahi city. They defined that existence of atopic diseases like allergic rhinitis, eczema and allergic conjunctivitis were …
Day temperatures dropped marginally on Thursday but there was hardly any relief for weather-beaten Delhiites as toxins in the air rose alarmingly due to a cloud cover trapping pollutants. The capital's air quality index (AQI) breached the 'severe' level, going from 219 (poor) on Wednesday to 410 in one of …
- Suspended air particles impact liver People living near oil drilling sites are likely to suffer from liver ailments because of the air pollutants in the area, a study conducted by a group of researchers belonging to the North East Institute of Science and Technology has found. The two-year study, …
When the AAP government came to power in February, Delhi's air pollution had touched the danger level with PM 2.5 (fine, respirable particles) remaining 10 times higher than the limit prescribed by WHO. In fact, just ahead of AAP's victory, WHO's urban air quality database had ranked Delhi to be …
Carmakers’ claims about their vehicles’ exhaust emissions — long criticised as wildly optimistic — are set to come under fresh scrutiny after the EU agreed to implement “real-world” testing for diesel cars. In a radical shift, Brussels said it would make the EU the world’s first region to adopt on-the-road …
AIIMS begins first ever study to ascertain the threat Pollution is known to give you respiratory disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder and lung cancer. The horror, however, doesn’t stop at that. Exposure to air pollution has now been conclusively linked to stroke-related deaths according to a research, findings of which …
Deaths due to air pollution have increased fourfold across the globe over the past decade, the latest assessment by the World Health Organization shows. The database on which the report is based shows that China and India are by far the worst affected countries. "Air pollution is one of the …
