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 …
Just 14 percent of New York City adults said they were smokers in 2010, the lowest level since the city began tracking the smoking rate nearly two decades ago, according to a survey released on Thursday. The drop was particularly steep among young adults, which suggested, experts said, that a …
Health experts lamented a move by U.S. President Barack Obama to halt rules on limiting smog pollution, saying the decision could endanger many people already susceptible to respiratory problems. Under pressure from businesses and Republican lawmakers, the Environmental Protection Agency had delayed issuing a rule on ozone limits several times. …
President Obama abandoned a contentious new air pollution rule on Friday, buoying business interests that had lobbied heavily against it, angering environmentalists who called the move a betrayal and unnerving his own top environmental regulators. The president rejected a proposed rule from the Environmental Protection Agency that would have significantly …
Mr. Obama left open the possibility the rule could be tightened in 2013. President Barack Obama, citing the struggling economy, asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday to withdraw an air-quality rule that Republicans and business groups said would cost millions of jobs. The surprise move—coming on the same day …
- Cross-continental survey raises deeper air pollution fears than suspected Indians have the poorest lungs among 17 populations across four continents, according to new research that has stirred speculation that the health effects of air pollution in India may be worse than hitherto suspected. An international study that investigated the …
Ten years after the city’s public transport switched to CNG, air pollution has again become a major threat to public health in Delhi, say environmentalists. With 69 lakh vehicles plying on city roads, a growth of about 60 lakh in 20 years, experts say oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate …
In this new report WHO maps the trends in noncommunicable diseases in 193 countries including India and suggests where each government needs to focus to prevent and treat 4 major killers - cancer, heart disease, lung disease and diabetes. In April 2011 the World Health Organization (WHO) released the first …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) called on Wednesday for an immediate halt to the use of blood tests to detect active tuberculosis, saying they were faulty and leave millions of people at risk. Production of the test kits, WHO officials said, was largely by Western companies which export them to …
Widely used blood tests to detect tuberculosis are "dangerous" to patients because they are unreliable and can produce wrong results, the World Health Organisation warned Sunday. The UN health agency said it will issue an unprecedented recommendation against using such tests for the infectious lung disease that affects some 14 …
Legislation that would ban logos from appearing on cigarette packages in Australia is drawing the ire of business lobbying groups and even members of the United States Congress, who warn that the Australian government could be in breach of its international trade obligations. The legislation would require that tobacco products …
Day-to-day spikes in air pollution seem to be followed by an uptick in hospital admissions for heart attack, a new study in Italy finds. The findings, reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology, add to evidence that high-pollution days may trigger heart attacks in some people. And, like other studies, …
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and District Collector P. Umanath have urged the people to refrain from setting fire to old materials on Bhogi (Friday). Setting ablaze discarded materials lead to thick smoke that causes environmental pollution, which is an offence. In a press release that was issued …
India must substantially increase the rate of effective prevention and control of chronic diseases, according to the third article of the Lancet series on
Federal Minister for Environment Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi has said that the continues process of global warming and climate change can bring major abnormalities in weather conditions which could cause further damages in different areas of the country. He expressed these views during his media chat here on Friday. The …
Chandigarh: The adverse impact of air pollution on health are well known but the fact that about 200 people die prematurely every year in a city like Ludhiana - Punjab
Exhaust from cars and trucks exacerbates asthma in children. It may also cause other respiratory illnesses and heart problems resulting in deaths, a fresh study has found. The report, to be issued by the non-profit Health Effects Institute, analysed 700 peer-reviewed studies conducted around the world on varying aspects of …
Early Detection, Better Drugs, Customized Therapy Ahead London: Scientists have identified all the changes in cells of two cancers to produce the first entire cancer gene maps, calling the findings a
In case we do have another major industrial accident, Bhopal serves as an example of what not to do by way of legal, political, administrative and medical remediation, says Praveen S Thampi IN SANER societies, the 82-acre compound at Kali Parade, Berasia Road, in Bhopal would have been a public …
