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 …
MUMBAI: Eleven resident doctors of Sion Hospital are currently suffering from tuberculosis. And two of them are suffering from the multi-drug resistant strain of the disease. Doctors and paramedical staff are worried as new cases of TB among the caregivers have been coming to light in the last few months. …
Indian boys sit around a small fire as the morning sun is enveloped by a blanket of smog, caused by a mixture of pollution and fog in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 Winter smogs are common in Delhi, but this year's haze has been severe Farmers who burn …
Gains Of Switch To Cleaner Fuel Frittered Away New Delhi: Delhi’s air pollution has reached alarming levels. For proof, just look out of the window. The grey-white ‘haze’ that has been covering the city since October 28, say experts, is actually smog that is linked to the rapid rise in …
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 …
The heavy smog that has set in earlier than usual and enveloped the Capital like a huge cloak for over a week has triggered a rash of respiratory tract infections and other health problems. The sometimes blinding smog - the result of a noxious cocktail of winter chill and traffic …
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has just launched a study examining the impact of open-fire cooking on regional air quality and human health. The study will look at atmospheric air pollutants and human diseases in terms of the effects of smoke from traditional cooking methods in households, villages, …
Despite marked improvement of the transparency of China's air quality data over the past year, academics and NGOs suggest the government can make better use of real-time air pollution reports. According to a survey on Chinese cities' air quality transparency - which was conducted by the Institute of Public and …
Italy's Ilva steel plant has begun a shutdown after a court ordered it to close because of evidence pollution from Europe's biggest steel works was causing above average cancer rates in the southern city of Taranto. A court on Saturday gave administrators five days to begin shutting the factory, prompted …
Winter temperature inversions—layers of air in which temperature increases with altitude—trap air pollutants and lead to higher pollutant concentrations. Previous studies have evaluated associations between pollutants and emergency department (ED) visits for asthma, but none have considered inversions as independent risk factors for ED visits for asthma.
Exposure to ozone has been associated with adverse health effects, including premature mortality and cardiopulmonary and respiratory morbidity. In 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lowered the primary (health-based) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone to 75 ppb, expressed as the fourth-highest daily maximum 8-hr average over …
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 …
There are many ways to harm your respiratory system such as smoking or breathing in asbestos. For urbanites living in cities across Europe, merely living and breathing in the city can be bad. A new study released by the European Environment Agency (EEA) found that most residents of European cities …
Microscopic particles, among the most harmful forms of air pollution, are still found at dangerous levels in Europe, although law has cut some toxins from exhaust fumes and chimneys, a European Environmental Agency (EEA) report said on Monday. On average, air pollution is cutting human lives by roughly eight months …
Human exposure to particulate matter (PM) was determined in Urban Environment of Delhi, India. Samples were collected using eight stages impactor (Marple Cascade Impactor) at five sites during August to October 2011. Three samples were collected from each site; samples were analyzed in eight size ranges gravimetrically and chemically (for …
Irrational use of pesticides in lower Punjab and upper Sindh areas is found to be damaging environment as it has contaminated underground water, soil and even fruits and vegetables being grown there, said a study. According to the study published by a German publishing house last year, a large number …
The sprawling ILVA steelworks has loomed over the skyline of Taranto and dominated the city's economy for 50 years, but toxic pollution has transformed the site from a symbol of postwar prosperity to an emblem of Italy's long industrial decline. Following years of uncontrolled environmental abuse, the future of the …
Hong Kong has urged people to stay indoors as the city chokes under the worst cloud of man-made air pollution the city has recorded, officials say. Air pollutant readings on Thursday broke records going back to 1999, except for levels reached when a natural dust storm hit the southern Chinese …
A coalition of countries and agencies seeking to curb Earth-warming pollutants like soot released by wood-fired ovens and methane from oil extraction, on Tuesday welcomed seven new members to its fold. At a meeting in Paris, the Clean Air and Climate Coalition, launched by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton …
Polluted air, mainly due to vehicular smoke, burning of garbage and very low tree plantation, is increasing respiratory diseases in Karachi, therefore, urgent steps are needed to check the worsening situation. Vehicular smoke is the number one cause of the growing air pollution in Karachi, causing serious environmental loss to …
POLLUTION is giving otherwise healthy children asthma-like symptoms, potentially affecting their lung growth and function and casting doubt on whether national air quality standards are strong enough. A national study of 2860 primary school children found nitrogen dioxide, contained in motor vehicle exhaust, was present in the lungs of two-thirds …
