Air Pollution

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The Australian state of New South Wales is gasping under the worst levels of air pollution recorded as smoke from widespread bushfires causes a spike in hospital visits and hazards including poor visibility for drivers. Sydney, the cou…

For generations, farmers in the Harchi Valley in Pakistan's highlands enjoyed a close relationship with their glacier that snakes between two mountain peaks. It watered their fields, orchards and grazing lands. Following local tradition, it has a name Ultar …

Air pollution levels in the national capital are at an all-time high. With almost every region in the city recording bad air quality, Delhi is turning into a gas chamber. If you thought not being able to breathe properly or burning eyes and headaches are the …

Over the course of the next three decades, Africa will record faster population growth than anywhere else. The obvious implications range from the need for more industrializationto create jobs and productsto increased congestion across several urban centers.…

Air pollution doesn't just come from cars on the road, generating electricity from fossil fuels also releases fine particulate matter into the air. In general, fine particulate matter can lead to heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer and other diseases, and is…

Hedges can cut air pollution by half, scientists have found after studying particulate levels on either side of a bush near a children's playground. In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers from the University of Surrey measured tra…

This article has no abstract; the first 100 words appear below. To the Editor: In response to the article by Liu et al. (Aug. 22 issue)1: the inhalable fraction of particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 10 m or less (PM10) in the real world is ma…

The 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) of Delhi was 242 Tuesday (poor), up from 214 Monday. (File) Delhis air quality deteriorated Tuesday and is likely to reach the very poor category Wednesday, aided by calm wind speed, low temperature and reduced int…

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NEW DELHI: A meeting of a parliamentary committee on the issue of air pollution in the national capital is scheduled for Wednesday after the absence of most of its members and senior officials from its last meeting sparked outrage and raised questions over …