Air Pollution

The total monetary burden of air pollution, including personal burden, government expenditure and societal cost, is considerable. THE Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) will set up stations to monitor ambient air quality in real time across 41 locati…

There are two key systems that need to fundamentally change, says Craig Hanson, vice president for food, forest, water, and the ocean at the World Resources Institute. “If we’re going to actually succeed in achieving sustainable development right now, essenti…

Spotted: In the US, Boston provides weekday bus services to children attending more than 220 schools. Previously, teams of public school staff spent weeks putting together the routes serving the districts 25,000 students. Now, an algorithm developed by a Mass…

On Friday, officials reported the first-ever death linked to a vaping-related lung injury, raising even more questions about the health implications of the popular devices, which are used to inhale vapor that contains nicotine or THC, the psychoactive compone…

Public transit has long been an answer for people looking to leave their car at home and reduce their air pollution emissions. But now, with better rider tracking tools, the University of Utah and the Utah Transit Authority can better answer the question: How…

CHICAGO — Could the very air we breathe have an impact on our mental health? That’s the suggestion coming out of a new international study conducted in the United States and Denmark. After analyzing long-term data sets from both countries, researchers from th…

5) Beyond health costs, air pollution can also hurt the economy in other ways. Elucidate in the backdrop of alarming air pollution issue in the country.(250 words)Why this question: The article provides for a detailed coverage of the ongoing air pollution cr…

The main solution to climate change is well known: stop burning fossil fuels. How to do this is more complicated, but as a scholar who does energy modeling, I and others see the outlines of a post-fossil-fuel future: We make electricity with renewable sources…

An electric school bus on display at the International Motor Show (2018). | Peter Steffen/picture alliance via Getty Images A small idea in Sanders’s Green New Deal could reap big benefits for kids. Bernie Sanders’s just-released Green New Deal plan is huge —…

Its common knowledge that air pollution is detrimental to our health, killing seven million people every year, and yet little is known about its toll on our mental well-being. Now, new research has revealed a link between polluted areas and increased cases of…