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 …
A walk in pre-sunrise hours may increase chances of asthma health enthusiasts living near freeways should minimize their outdoor exercise timings during the early morning hours; they should also keep their windows closed through the night. A team of environmental health scientists found the levels of air pollution to be …
Thick black smoke, emitted by nearly 1.5 lakh old and rickety vehicles, is posing a serious environmental threat to the city dwellers. Sources in Bangladesh Road Transport Authority admitted that nearly 50 per cent of the vehicles plying the city roads don
The ambient air we breathe is a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen with minor constituents, like CO2 and trace gases. Pollutants are substances which are not normally present, for example dust, smoke, industrial and automobile exhaust gaseous and particulate matter.
The brass metal workers are affected by the flakes of brass during making of brass made utensils that causes the decrement as well as impairments of pulmonary functions. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the pulmonary function status of the workers engaged in manufacturing of brass made …
Traffic pollution is known to cause chronic bronchitis and asthma, killing thousands every year. But that is not all. Simply living beside a busy road has its consequences. Particles in vehicular exhaust can stick to lungs for longer than was known, endanger the health of an unborn child, lead to …
Six years of worrying about bird flu did much to prepare the United States for the current swine flu outbreak, federal officials and an independent monitoring group said Thursday, but they cautioned that there were still gaps in planning. After the H5N1 avian flu emerged widely in Asia in 2003, …
Caused by a chilly oil extract unit VIRUDHUNAGAR: Residents of ward 6 of Virudhunagar municipality have complained of air and water pollution allegedly caused by a chilly oil extract unit in their locality. In a petition addressed to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, signed by 67 residents, they have …
Children more susceptible to respiratory, eye ailments Anil Jerath Polluted air here is causing respiratory and ophthalmic diseases, particularly among children. According to doctors almost every second child visiting a paediatrician or general practitioner, shows symptoms of respiratory or ophthalmic diseases and the incidence was increasing. Dr H S Narang, …
Fine particulate matter [aerodynamic diameter ? 2.5 ?m (PM2.5)] has been associated with autonomic dysregulation. The authors hypothesized that PM2.5 influences postural changes in systolic blood pressure (?SBP) and in diastolic blood pressure (?DBP) and that this effect is modified by genes thought to be related to chronic lung disease.
During the last week of June 2008, central and northern California experienced thousands of forest and brush fires, giving rise to a week of severe fire-related particulate air pollution throughout the region. California experienced PM10?2.5 (particulate matter with mass median aerodynamic diameter > 2.5 ?m to < 10 ?m; coarse …
The hookah, a waterpipe, originated in India and became popular for smoking tobacco. It spread elsewhere and acquired other names like nargile, shisha, goza and hubble-bubble, before its popularity declined in India. A resurgence of hookah smoking is occurring in India and around the world, and is being promoted as …
Speakers at a seminar yesterday stressed the need to promote respiratory hygiene among the people in the country in order to prevent the spread of swine flu. Although no cases of swine flu have been found in the country, increased international travel and high density of population pose potential risk …
After almost a fortnight of high alert and a five-day shutdown of ghostly calm, Mexico City this week began gingerly to return to its normal metropolitan bustle. Fears that swine flu might be a deadly epidemic have subsided: testing has shown that it was responsible for fewer than 50 of …
President Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to spend $63 billion over the next six years on a new, broader global health strategy that would reshape one of the signature foreign policy efforts of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Mr. Bush made combating global AIDS a centerpiece of his foreign agenda. …
Swine flu has become widespread in the United States, with 226 cases in 30 states and more expected to turn up in additional states in the next few days, federal health officials said Sunday.
The government has set up check posts at air, river and land ports as pre-cautionary measurers to prevent Swine Flu, a respiratory disease caused by H1N1 virus. This was stated at a meeting of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Health and Family Welfare held at Sangsad Bhaban yesterday with …
