India’s Urban Air Pollution Crisis: Need of Urgent and Innovative Actions
According to the six-monthly report of Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air, Delhi was the third most polluted city in India, where the amount of PM 2.5 was…
Air Pollution
Air Pollution Is Killing Millions and Rising Exponentially—A Shift in Agriculture Can Solve It
In 1958, geochemist Charles David Keeling set up the Mauna Loa Global Monitoring Laboratory in Hawaii, which measured carbon dioxide (CO2). Keeling believed that CO2 levels were rising and wanted to prove…
New Delhi Most Polluted City in The World, India Third Most Polluted Country
New Delhi, 19 March 2024: The 6th Annual World Air Quality Report finds New Delhi to be the most polluted capital city in the world, while India ranks as the…
Informal Sector Workers Suffer on Both Sides of the Pollution Debate
Many informal sector workers are more exposed to pollution because they work outdoors or else work indoors in polluting conditions. Hence the health risks they face when air pollution levels…
Better Protection from Pollution Needed for Outdoor Workers
Air pollution levels are high in most cities of India and in many of these cities the situation becomes more difficult in winter months. While this has been widely discussed…
Bursting firecrackers: A nation-building exercise to defeat the forces of evil
Air pollution can have huge negative effects on cognitive intelligence and thus positive effects on national commitment. There is a place where people are not good. They protest, they raise…
Need to Recognize Wider Dimensions of Stubble Burning
Crop stubble burning has so far attracted concern mainly in the context of Punjab and nearby areas. Its most widely discussed impact has related to increase in air pollution in…
India Struggling To Have Clean Air For Blue Skies
As we mark the United Nations International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies on September 7 and raise demands for better air pollution management, we also stare at the crop residue…
Air Pollutants Cause 7 Million Premature Deaths a Year Worldwide, says WHO
Air pollutants are responsible for 7 million premature deaths a year worldwide, says the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO has called it “one of the greatest environmental risks to…
World Lung Day | Air is deadlier than we thought it is!
While we observe World Lung Day, let us also pay heed to the latest policy guidelines on one of the major preventable risk factors of deadliest of lung diseases: air…
The Right to Clean Air in Jakarta
It seems utterly beyond debate but acknowledging legal rights to clean hair has assumed the makings of a slow march over the years. The 1956 Clean Air Act in Britain…
Will the government hold Big Polluters liable for air pollution, preventable diseases, and untimely deaths?
Written by Sandeep Pandey, Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant 16.7 lakh people died in India in 2019 because of air pollution accounting for 17·8% of the total deaths in the…
‘70% of India’s coal-fired power stations may not meet environmental norms by 2022’
The sector must meet the environmental norms to ensure ‘our right to breathe in clean air,’ says CSE report New Delhi: With barely two years to go before the deadline…
Bangalore has it’s own variant of air pollution
A lot of residents who make Bangalore their home from another country or state tend to suffer from acute breathing allergies from September to April, which is the high allergy…
Air Pollution In Delhi And Our Right to Breathe
I) Current situation According to the World Health Organizations WHO (2013) air pollution is the fifth largest killer in India. 13 out of the 20 most polluted cities in the…
A Comprehensive Study of Air Pollution in India
Abstract The review article discusses the condition of Air Quality and Pollution in India with relevant references from prominent sources like The Environment Performance Index 2016, The Global Green Economy…
Australian ABC Ignores & Censors Horrendous, Australia-Complicit Air Pollution Deaths
Australia threatens the world as a major greenhouse gas (GHG) polluter but also kills 75,000 people globally each year via toxic pollutants from the burning of its world-leading coal…
We Breathe Polluted Air Beyond Permissible Standards Across India
Every single day, we in India who walk the streets of our country, India, breathe polluted air way beyond permissible standards for our health. Several reports had been published over…
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