Air Pollution

After a winter storm tore through Houston last week, the neighborhood of Manchester, like many others across the state, was left in the dark. For days after the storm, the community had no power, and nothing to light up the streets at night — save for a faint glow coming…

Richard (“Drew”) Marcantonio is a social and environmental science researcher at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is working on a book about human-produced toxic and nontoxic pollution and the harm it causes. In December, a British coroner ruled that the cause of 9-year-old…

Air pollution claimed approximately 54,000 lives in Delhi in 2020, according to a Greenpeace Southeast Asia analysis of cost to the economy due to air pollution. Six Indian cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Lucknow — feature in the global analysis. Globally, approximately 1,60,000 deaths have been attributed…

Synopsis PM2.5 refers to fine particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter. Exposure to PM2.5 is considered the most important environmental risk factor for deaths globally, and was attributed to 4.2 million premature deaths in 2015, the study said.AFPCommenting on the revelations made by cost estimator CEO of IQAir,…

An estimated 1.2 lakh deaths attributed to air pollution have been reported across six big Indian cities in 2020, with the national capital leading the table followed by Mumbai and Bengaluru. Bad air is also estimated to have cost $17.7 billion in economic terms. These findings are according to a…

Synopsis Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced three unique features: the re-use of scrap metal, the new vehicle scrapping policy, and the conception of the National Research Foundation (NRF).AgenciesMoreover, our cities are known hotbeds of air pollution, so it is commendable that the budget also allocates an additional Rs470 crore to…

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A plume of Sahara dust has caused a sharp rise in air pollution in parts of southern and central Europe, researchers have said. The huge cloud of fine sand moving northward from Algeria has blanketed the region, turning skies red in Stuttgart in Germany and leaving slopes of the Alps…

BERLIN (AP) — A plume of Sahara dust that has blanketed parts of southern and central Europe in recent days caused a short, sharp spike in air pollution across the region, researchers said Tuesday. The European Commission’s Copernicus satellite monitoring program said measured levels of particles smaller than 10 micrometers…

A proposed hybrid-electric plane could “eliminate aviation’s air pollution problem,” say MIT engineers. Proposed design could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 95 percent, a new study finds. At cruising altitude, airplanes emit a steady stream of nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere, where the chemicals can linger to produce ozone and…