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 …
The Environment Ministry has announced that it will recommend the public do not venture outside unless necessary on days on which fine particulate air pollution is high. Particulate air pollution is believed to be coming from China to Japan. The smog has been dubbed PM2.5 in Japan. These particles, which …
Hundreds of heavy trucks, entering and leaving the industrial area everyday, are causing air and noise pollution in the federal capital and disturbance among the sector's residents. Resident of the industrial areas told APP that the number of noise, dust and smoke complaints from the area were steadily increasing with …
Ministry report says 'green' cars contribute significantly to air pollution and lung diseases Diesel fumes are significantly more damaging to health than those from petrol engines, according to research which shows that related air pollution contributes to lung disease, heart attacks, asthma and other respiratory problems. The findings, published by …
Days after choking smog blanketed China's capital, the country's premier-designate added his voice to appeals to curb the toxic haze, but he offered few specifics and said there was no quick fix. The comments from Vice Premier Li Keqiang, who is expected to take over as premier at a national …
WHO has developed a global monitoring framework to enable global tracking of progress in preventing and controlling major noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) - cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lung diseases and diabetes - and their key risk factors. The framework comprises nine global targets and 25 indicators and will be up for …
Microscopic pollutant particles in the air have killed some 8,600 people prematurely this year and cost $1 billion in economic losses in four Chinese cities, according to a study by Beijing University and Greenpeace. The study of pollutant levels of PM2.5, or particles smaller than 2.5 micrometres in diameter, in …
Even as one in four deaths worldwide in 2010 was caused by heart disease or stroke — the top two killers that have remained constant for the past 40 years — human mortality caused by climate change has shown the most dangerous spurt over the last four decades. The Global …
High blood pressure (BP) has become the world’s deadliest diseasecausing risk factor. But for Indians, IAP (indoor air pollution) — emanating from chulhas burning wood, coal and animal dung as fuel — has been found to be a bigger health hazard for Indians. The first-ever estimate of the contribution of …
New Delhi: For the last couple of days, Greater Kailash resident, Esha Verma, has been staying indoors during the evenings. It’s not the nip in the air she’s worried about. Verma, an asthma patient, prefers not to step out because she fears the smog will aggravate her breathing problem. The …
PEOPLE who have never smoked, but who live in areas with higher air pollution levels, are roughly 20 percent more likely to die from lung cancer than people who live with cleaner air, researchers conclude in a new study. “It’s another argument for why the regulatory levels (for air pollutants) …
An Improved Stove with Carbon Emission Programme is being launched to raise the livelihood of the communities of nine districts in the Far- Western Development Region through improved stoves. The five-year programme is being brought by the Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT-N) with the economic and technical cooperation of …
Epidemiological studies have established a close relationship between exposure to ambient air pollution and morbidity and mortality from cardio-pulmonary diseases. Air pollution is a complex mixture of various gases, particulates, hydrocarbons, and transition metals. Of all these pollutants, the association between air pollution and adverse health conditions was the strongest …
New Delhi: It is often viewed as a healthier alternative to a ‘real’ smoke. But electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have now been found to be as harmful for your lungs. A new study, presented at the European Respiratory Society’s annual Congress on Sunday, showed that the e-cigarette that claims to offer …
South Africa's leading gold miners are facing a potential lawsuit on behalf of thousands of workers who claim they contracted silicosis, a lung disease, through the companies' negligence. A South African lawyer filed the first papers on Tuesday against AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields and Harmony, in a preliminary step to …
The Centre has banned the manufacture and sale of serodiagnostic kits for tuberculosis. A notification issued by the Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Arun Panda on June 7 states that serodiagnostic test kits have led to imprecise results and inconsistent diagnosis of TB, leading to risk to …
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new national air quality standards that would significantly reduce levels of fine-particle soot. The rule, to be announced on Friday, would reduce the range of fine particulates allowed in the atmosphere by roughly 17 percent, according to an agency official who spoke on condition …
Among 65 traffic police constables deployed at eight key points in the city, 19 suffered from lung problems for being exposed to prolonged vehicular emissions, said a study of Peshawar traffic police. The study was conducted with the help of Khyber Teaching Hospital experts, to know effects of air pollution …
The Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), in its quarterly report, has revealed that arsenic was present in seven brands of bottled water, which could cause cancer (of lungs, bladder, skin, prostrate, kidney, nose and liver), diabetes, kidney diseases, hypertension, heart diseases, birth defects and black-foot disease. Besides …
A 10-year-study in Bhopal has found that every second person who was exposed to the gas leak 28 years ago has abnormal lung function. The study carried out by researchers at Bhopal Memorial Hospital & Research Centre and published in the February issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Research …
Hong Kong has decided to come clean with data on a dangerous form of air pollution, a month and a half after Beijing, a city with smoggier skies and a murkier approach to statistics, did the same. After years of withholding the data, Hong Kong’s environmental protection department on Thursday …
