Air Pollution

Toxic air killed in India last year led to 1.7 million deaths accounting for 18 per cent of all fatalities, according to a study published in The Lancet. The findings of the study by Lancet Planetary Health highlighted that “lost output from deaths and diseases due to air pollution in 2019 led to…

Website of the YearWorld23 Dec, 2020 04:51 AM3 minutes to readThe number of deaths linked to India's dire air quality rose to 1.7 million in 2019. Photo / 123rfAs many as one in five deaths recorded in India last year can be attributed to air pollution, according to a study…

By Adam Vaughan Rosamund Kissi-Debrah outside Southwark Coroner’s Court in London, after the inquest into the death of her daughter Ella Kirsty O'Connor/PA Wire/PA Image A landmark inquest has finally put a name and face to the human cost of air pollution – an environmental crisis estimated to kill up…

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Thomas Mnguni often woke to find the windows and floors of his home covered in a layer of black dust. Living between two coal mines and a landfill in Middelburg,…

The city suffered moderate air pollution yesterday due to high PM2.5 concentrations, the local ecology and environment bureau said.So far, the city has seen only seven such days this year.PM2.5 concentrations reached 147 micrograms per cubic meter at 2pm and 4pm, the bureau said. A reading between 115 and 150…

A strange, unexplained illness is making people sick in India, with hundreds already experiencing a range of severe symptoms. Viral tests were negative, and tests of the air and water in the region were reportedly normal, but some believe the water supply may still be to blame. One person has…

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As a physician and epidemiologist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, T. Stephen Jones spent his career fighting major threats to public health in the US and globally, from smallpox to HIV to viral hepatitis. But it wasn’t until Jones was well into retirement that he learned…

Citizen Science Salon is a partnership between Discover magazine and SciStarter.org.Air quality impacts our health, our quality of life and even the length of our lives. Most people don’t think about what’s in the air they breathe — but perhaps they should. That’s the driving force behind the Pakistan Air Quality Initiative. The citizen…

Despite a 30-year smoky coal ban, Dublin once again earned its “dirty old town” reputation during a weekend with pollution levels in Rathmines and Ringsend 15 times higher than EU and World Health Organisation rules. But the problem was not just in Dublin – pollution limits were broken elsewhere, too,…