Black carbon harms health, and traps heat, melts snow and disturbs rain patterns for as long as it is airborne. While long-lived carbon dioxide (CO2 ) needs fast-tracked action to stabilize global temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees Celsius, black carbon needs elimination to contain short-term warming spikes and to …
Madrid's city government announced plans on Monday to ban the oldest and most polluting vehicles from the city centre by 2025 in a bid to crackdown on air pollution. The local government will prohibit the use within the city's limits of gasoline cars registered before 2000 and diesel-powered cars registered …
'City on brink of danger; timely action need of the hour' According to an independent study of air quality in Mangaluru, the air in the city is high in lead content and bears borderline indications of approaching danger on other parameters. The study was conducted by APD Foundation under its …
MANGALURU: We all knew that Mangaluru's ambient air quality was not in the pink of health — if not at all places, but at some major stress points in the city. This has been proved right by the study done by Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation 'Shudda Gaali' in their #StopSmokyVehicles …
Although many time-series studies have established associations of daily pollution variations with daily deaths, there are fewer at low concentrations, or focused on locally generated pollution, which is becoming more important as regulations reduce regional transport. Causal modeling approaches are also lacking. Researchers used causal modeling to estimate the impact …
Scientists said on Wednesday that they have solved the mystery of how a major smog component, known as sulfate, forms during heavy pollution. The study, published in the US journal Science Advances, identified reactive nitrogen chemistry and water particles in the air as the two key elements, suggesting that reducing …
Only four of the 12 largest companies — Peugeot Citroën, Toyota, Renault-Nissan and Volvo — are on track to hit incoming EU targets, according to PA Consulting group, which advises many of the companies on manufacturing and technology. Volkswagen, BMW and Fiat Chrysler are furthest behind in electric car development …
Chennai: The TN State Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will set up continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations in 20 districts across the state. TNPCB sources told TOI that chief minister J Jayalalithaa had made the announcement in the assembly in the last session. The board had floated tenders for the …
70.37 lakh trees planted in state this year, says government The J&K; Government’s Forest and Environment Department has undertaken a “mission afforestation” to recover the lost forest cover, which is thought to have triggered the 2014 deluge. To reverse the climate change effects, Forest and Environment Minister Chaudhary Lal Singh …
Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) will conduct Sources Apportionment Study of five cities to find out source of air pollution. The study will cover pollution from vehicles, construction work, industrial, housing and other activities. The cities to be studied are Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Dewas and Sagar. MPPCB officials said …
BENGALURU: With anti-cracker campaigns stepping up and cracker sales seen to have lost their sparkle, officials had expected a less polluted Diwali this year. However, data shows that pollution levels actually increased, despite even traffic volumes reducing by almost half in the city. Data collected from two Continuous Ambient Air …
This study deals with the effects of fireworks on the air quality over the major cities of India during the festival of light known as “Diwali”. The effects of firecrackers during the festival was assessed from the ambient concentrations of various air pollutants such as sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide …
AGRA: In a letter to Union environment ministry's secretary, Agra entrepreneurs wrote that the industries are wrongly being blamed for causing pollution in the city, while the factors like road dust, lack of greenery, vehicular pollution and dry Yamuna among other reasons have been overlooked. They said such a decision …
Car industry successfully lobbied for loopholes to dilute EU laws limiting toxic particulates emissions for new cars, the Guardian has learned New European cars with petrol engines will be allowed to overshoot a limit on toxic particulates emissions by 50% under a draft EU regulation backed by the UK and …
THANE: Bidding goodbye to the monsoon season equates bidding goodbye to clean and breathable air in the lake-city revealed the air quality index recorded on a daily basis by the municipal corporation. While the abundant rain showers had cleared the air pollution levels by over 70 per cent this year, …
BENGALURU: The quality of air in the city has taken a severe beating over the past five years. From a satisfactory level in 2011, the quality has been downgraded to a moderate level in 2015. What this literally translates to is breathing discomfort to children and older adults as well …
Air pollution may be responsible for hundreds of car accidents a year, as toxic air may impair driver fitness, a new UK study has found. Researchers from the London School of Economics divided the UK into a grid of 32 areas each covering about 7,700 square kilometres and mapped accidents …
This paper estimates the causal eff ect of increased ambient air pollution on the frequency of road traffic accidents in the United Kingdom between 2009 and 2014. An instrumental variable approach is applied, exploiting atmospheric temperature inversions as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in daily air pollution levels. The …
France may seek compensation from carmakers whose vehicles far exceed carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions targets in normal driving, budget minister Christian Eckert said on Wednesday. Addressing lawmakers at the National Assembly, Eckert said government legal services were preparing action to recover "lost tax receipts" from carmakers whose vehicles should have …
BEIJING - The density of PM2.5, fine particulate matter causing smog, decreased in Beijing by 12.5 percent year on year in January to August, the local environment watchdog said Monday. The average PM2.5 reading in the first eight months was 63 micrograms per cubic meter, the city's environmental protection bureau …
Insulin resistance (IR) is present long before the onset of type 2 diabetes and results not only from inherited and lifestyle factors but likely also from environmental conditions. We investigated the association between modelled long-term exposure to air pollution at residence and biomarkers related to IR, subclinical inflammation and adipokines. …
