Air Pollution

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Aerosol emissions from burning coal and wood are dangerous to human health, but it turns out that by cooling the Earth they also diminish global economic inequality, according to a new study by Carnegie's Yixuan Zheng, Geeta Persad, and Ken Caldeira, along with UC Irvine's Steven…

By: PTI | New Delhi | Published: February 18, 2020 12:49:51 pm Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said reduction in pollution levels will be among the top priority of the Arvind Kejriwal dispensation.(File)Newly appointed Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai has convened a high-level meeting of officers on February 20 to…

Newly appointed Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai in the new AAP government, convened a high-level meeting of officers on February 20 to chalk out an action plan to tackle air pollution in Delhi. He said that reduction in pollution levels will be among the top priority of the Arvind Kejriwal…

Scientists estimate that each year in the U.S., outdoor air pollution shortens the lives of about 100,000 people by one to two decades. As it turns out, much of this pollution originates not in a person's own neighborhood, but up to hundreds or even thousands of miles away in neighboring…

A new study out of the Yale School of Public Health has found that air pollution may be able to trigger non-fatal heart attacks, making the ultrafine particles found in this pollution a ‘serious public health concern.’ The research was recently published in Environmental Health Perspectives; it warns that the…

By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: February 14, 2020 8:21:54 am Globally, air pollution is estimated to cause 4.5 million premature deaths each year (File Photo)A new Greenpeace report has estimated the global cost of air pollution from fossil fuels at around $2.9 trillion per year, or…

DescriptionThe objective of the campaign was to tell people that the harm we bring to the environment has a direct bearing on us. It may not look tangible in the short term but in the long term, the damage is permanent. Using tan lines, which are not pretty, we showcased…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain More than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, MIT researchers report in the journal Nature. The study focuses on the years between 2005 and 2018 and tracks…

Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air have released a new report highlighting both the human and economic cost of pollution from fossil fuels. It found that burning gas, coal and oil leads to three times as many deaths as road traffic accidents around…

Home News Children wear surgical masks as protection against the coronavirus as Hong Kong marked the Lunar New Year on Jan. 27, 2020. (Image: © ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images) The outbreak of a new coronavirus in China has killed more than 900 people, but one group has escaped with…