Air Pollution

Countries that are most at risk of the impacts of climate change are most often also the countries facing the highest risks of toxic pollution, according to experts ...

Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) is a dangerous air pollutant that is released when fuel is burned, as in most motor vehicles, power generation, and industrial processes ...

The increase in respiratory admissions (bronchitis, bronchial asthma) is directly proportional to increase in air quality index (AQI), the report read ...

The findings show that reducing the use of fossil fuels, deforestation and other practices that lead to carbon emissions must be a top priority to avoid catastrophic consequences ...

The international team of researchers used data from a range of Earth Observation sensors, including those from the European Space Agency's Sentinel-5p and NASA's MODIS sensors, to measure changes in surface temperature and atmospheric pollutants and aerosols ...

According to a new study, there has been an increase in the air pollutant formaldehyde in Delhi, Kanpur and London ...

The report estimates that India's workers take 1.3 billion days off work annually because of the adverse effects of air pollution on their health, amounting to 6 billion dollars in lost revenue ...

As per the Scrappage policy, commercial vehicles will be deregistered in 15 years and private vehicles in 20 years if they fail to get fitness certificates ...

World Environment Day: Delhi's air pollution problem might intensify during the onset of winter but the unhealthy air quality is an all the year-round phenomena, which was broken by the COVID-19 induced lockdown last year. Delhi's clean air and blue skies during that period underlines the findings of a Centre for Science and Environment report which lays down the steps that the capital city needs to take for more than 60 per cent cut in the annual PM2.5 concentration from the current levels, to be no longer harmful to people's health ...

By investing ₹60,000 crore, less polluting fuel BS6 technology vehicles have been introduced, besides having electric two, three and four wheelers which are bringing down the pollution levels, said Union Environment Minister ...

Apart from natural causes like lightning strikes and heat of the Sun, uncontrollable forest fire disasters are also caused by manmade factors like carelessness, poaching, erratic methods of gathering forest produce and lack of fire safety, say experts ...

India continues to dominate the air pollution rankings, as per the recently released World Air Quality Report, 22 of the top 30 most polluted cities globally are located in India ...