Air Pollution

As California wildfires continue to rage and the Lake Tahoe area faces some of the highest air pollution levels in the world, a new study has found that breathing wildfire smoke during pregnancy increases the risk of premature birth. The study from Stanford University, published in Environmental Research this month,…

NEW DELHI: India's capital New Delhi opened its first "smog tower" on Monday aimed at reducing the air pollution blamed for thousands of premature deaths every year, but experts were sceptical. © New Straits Times Press (M) BhdRead More

EPD convictions in July ***********************      Seventy-five convictions were recorded in July 2021 for breaches of legislation enforced by the Environmental Protection Department.        Five of the convictions were under the Air Pollution Control Ordinance, three were under the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance, four were under the Noise…

The computational evaluation shows a spatial distribution of single micron-sized drug particles in human respiratory tract at three seconds. Credit: Akshoy R. Paul Size of drug particles plays key role in effectiveness of medicine. Increased air pollution in recent years has not only contributed to deteriorating environmental conditions in cities…

While regular exercise is one of the keys to a healthy lifestyle, air pollution and exercise can be unhealthy. But a new study contradicts this belief. The study suggests that regular exercise, even in polluted areas, can lower the risk of death. Scientists conducted a study on 384,130 adults aged…

Jorge Osvaldo Heredia lives in the San Bernardino foothills in a valley at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains, a stunning backdrop on most days. But come summer, the air pollution in San Bernardino gets so thick, like a “hot blanket of smog” that it obscures the view of…

Thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths in California, Oregon, and Washington between March and December 2020 may be attributable to increases in fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study is the…

Google is updating its Nest Hub displays with a new feature that displays the air quality index (AQI), Android Central has reported. The feature will appear on the weather widget, showing a numeric ranking from 0 to 500 and color coding from green (good) to maroon (hazardous). Google is taking…

Updates for merchant shipping safety and prevention of pollution regulations proposed *************************************************************************************      The Government proposes to amend five regulations under the Merchant Shipping (Safety) Ordinance and the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Air Pollution) Regulation to incorporate the latest requirements under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at…

Indian states are deploying a new policy tool that shows potential to reduce their high air-pollution levels, which are estimated to have caused nearly 1.7 million deaths, or 18% of all Indian deaths, in 2019. The policy tool — an emissions trading system (ETS) known as “cap-and-trade” — has successfully…