Air Pollution

Smoke bellows from a domestic hearth known as a ‘chulha’ that is fuelled using dung cakes in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, last month. Photo: Bloomberg Cash-strapped New Delhi has halved the amount it sets aside for LPG cooking fuel subsidies, leaving many Indians eyeing a return to smoggier fuels Air…

Researchers examining 14 years of hospital admissions data conclude that the fine particles in wildfire smoke can be several times more harmful to human respiratory health than particulate matter from other sources such as car exhaust. The extensive study was published on March 5 in the journal Nature Communications by…

When Chiara Geroldi takes off her makeup at night, she can see the pollution that comes off with it. Her terrace is full of dust that needs to be swept constantly, and her hair gets dirty faster outside. “Bergamo is a highly polluted area,” said Geroldi, 50, who works as…

IMAGE: The Innsbruck Atmospheric Observatory is located on the roof of the Bruno Sander House at the University of Innsbruck in the center of the Tyrolean capital. view more  Credit: University of Innsbruck The far-reaching mobility restrictions at the beginning of the Corona pandemic in March 2020 created a unique situation…

The thick air pollution over Singapore’s this past weekend was ozone smog, the environment agency clarified today, a day after reporting pollution hot spots across the Mekong region.  The National Environment Agency, or NEA, said Saturday’s “unhealthy” air quality was caused by increased levels of ozone, and people were wrong…

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…