Air Pollution

"The issue of air quality in some ways is like our concerns about the foreign policy. I have always said there is no BJP foreign policy or Congress foreign policy, there is only Indian policy,” senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Wednesday. "Similarly with air quality, our political differences…

Hope Yen and Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Updated 7:09 pm CDT, Tuesday, September 8, 2020 President Donald Trump holds a signed memorandum to expand the offshore drilling moratorium to Florida's Atlantic coast, Georgia and South Carolina after speaking at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, in Jupiter,…

Clean air should be a basic human right and yet air pollution is the single greatest environmental risk to human health. In 2017, 3.4 million people died prematurely as a result of outdoor air pollution which makes 6% of global deaths. The share for India was 8.26%. The World Health…

The first ever International Day of Clean Air for blue skies on 7 September 2020 gives us an opportunity to celebrate the importance of clean air – something that is so fundamental to us all for our health and well-being. Air, both indoors and outdoors, can be contaminated by chemical,…

Shilpa Shetty Kundra says, - “With immense gratitude in our hearts, Raj (Kundra) & I have partnered with Million Dollar Vegan & Neeti Goel of Lala Bhagwan Das Trust, to provide 2 weeks worth of food & necessities to 1,000 families who have lost their livelihoods & homes, due to…

Yes, kids can get Covid-19. They can also spread it. They might even be better at spreading it than adults are. You wouldn’t know that from listening to the White House, though. “It’s not just that children are not at risk at all from this disease. They also do not…

A destructive storm is rising from warm waters. Again.America and the world are getting more frequent and bigger multibillion dollar tropical catastrophes like Hurricane Laura, which is menacing the U.S. Gulf Coast, because of a combination of increased coastal development, natural climate cycles, reductions in air pollution and man-made climate…

A destructive storm is rising from warm waters. Again.America and the world are getting more frequent and bigger multibillion dollar tropical catastrophes like Hurricane Laura, which is menacing the U.S. Gulf Coast, because of a combination of increased coastal development, natural climate cycles, reductions in air pollution and man-made climate…

The government has given the green light to an escalator and walkway system to link the Fortress Hill MTR station with the top of Braemar Hill – after considering the plan for over a decade. However, no concrete details were given for the design of the system, its cost, or…

We need a global debate on the best way to respond to these demographic changes.Photo illustration by Arthimedes / ShutterstockIn their 1968 book The Population Bomb, biologists Paul Ehrlich and his wife Anne foretold a Malthusian future of famine and disease if humanity failed to control its growth. The Ehrlichs’…