Air Pollution

An orange smoke-filled sky is seen above Estacada, Oregon, on September 9, 2020, as fires burn nearby. DEBORAH BLOOM/AFP via Getty Images The onslaught of wildfires in California serves as a wake up call for many Americans when it comes to climate change, with some people deciding to permanently leave…

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"The issue of air quality in some ways is like our concerns about the foreign policy. I have always said there is no BJP foreign policy or Congress foreign policy, there is only Indian policy,” senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said on Wednesday. "Similarly with air quality, our political differences…

Hope Yen and Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Updated 7:09 pm CDT, Tuesday, September 8, 2020 President Donald Trump holds a signed memorandum to expand the offshore drilling moratorium to Florida's Atlantic coast, Georgia and South Carolina after speaking at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, in Jupiter,…

Clean air should be a basic human right and yet air pollution is the single greatest environmental risk to human health. In 2017, 3.4 million people died prematurely as a result of outdoor air pollution which makes 6% of global deaths. The share for India was 8.26%. The World Health…

The first ever International Day of Clean Air for blue skies on 7 September 2020 gives us an opportunity to celebrate the importance of clean air – something that is so fundamental to us all for our health and well-being. Air, both indoors and outdoors, can be contaminated by chemical,…

Shilpa Shetty Kundra says, - “With immense gratitude in our hearts, Raj (Kundra) & I have partnered with Million Dollar Vegan & Neeti Goel of Lala Bhagwan Das Trust, to provide 2 weeks worth of food & necessities to 1,000 families who have lost their livelihoods & homes, due to…

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A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and the University of Virginia, USA, has studied the impact of high ozone air pollution on the chemical communication between flowers and pollinators. They showed that tobacco hawkmoths lost attraction to the scent of their…

Yes, kids can get Covid-19. They can also spread it. They might even be better at spreading it than adults are. You wouldn’t know that from listening to the White House, though. “It’s not just that children are not at risk at all from this disease. They also do not…