Air Pollution Linked To 6 Mn Preterm Berths Globally
Air pollution likely contributed to nearly six million premature births and almost three million underweight babies around the world in...
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57K Premature Deaths In Delhi Last Year Due To Air Pollution
An estimated 57,000 premature deaths in Delhi during 2020 can be attributed to air pollution, Greenpeace India said on Wednesday,...
Delhi Orders Ban On Firecrackers Ahead Of Diwali
India is among the most polluted countries in the world, and air quality in Delhi and neighbouring northern states normally...
UN Hails End Of Poisonous Leaded Gas Use In Cars Worldwide
Leaded gasoline has finally reached the end of the road, according to the U.N. environment office, after the last country...
Unravelling Air Pollution In Asian Countries
When Trisha Mahajan was growing up in the northern Indian city of Amritsar, air pollution was never on her mind....
Air Pollution Adds To India’s Pandemic Pain
Anju Verma tested positive for the coronavirus in September 2020, along with the rest of her family. With chronic asthma...
India’s Net-Zero Dream: Between Diplomacy And Reality
The diplomatic pressure on India to set a cut-off date to reach net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has intensified, after...
New Delhi Is World’s Most Polluted Capital For 3rd Straight Year
New Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to IQAir, a Swiss...
Air Pollution Led To 54,000 Premature Deaths In Delhi
Air pollution caused an estimated 54,000 premature deaths in the capital New Delhi last year, a higher toll than in...
FM Announces Voluntary Vehicle Scrapping Policy
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced the much-awaited voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and polluting vehicles....
Nature Is Not Healing: Pollution Remained A Problem In 2020
Dolphins did not return to cleaner canals in Venice, Italy this year. Nor was the critically endangered Malabar civet spotted...
Pollution Deaths In India Rose To 1.67 Mn in 2019
Toxic air killed more people in India in 2019 than in 2017, The Lancet said in a report shared by...
Delhi’s Poisonous Air A Perennial Crisis Of Its Own Making
Thousands of families who live near a smouldering waste landfill in a northern corner of India’s capital have boarded up...
Hundreds Sign Up For Delhi Race Amid Virus Surge, Pollution
Some of the world’s leading long-distance runners and hundreds of others will take part in a half-marathon and shorter races...
Red Light? Turn Engine Off, Delhi Urges Motorists
Choking back exhaust fumes, 22-year-old Rihana Saif stands at a traffic signal in New Delhi, holding a sign mounted on...
Delhi Records Its Highest Covid-19 Deaths, Hospitals Swamped
Delhi’s COVID-19 deaths rose by a record high on Thursday and it also reported the most number of infections in...
ICU Beds Full As Covid Surges In Delhi
After his 92-year-old grandmother started coughing and her blood oxygen levels plummeted, Varunn Kaushik took her to two top private...
Delhi’s Air Quality Falls To Worst Levels This Year
Air quality in India’s capital deteriorated to its worst this year on Tuesday, prompting a social media barrage of residents...
Heavy Smog In Delhi Raises Fears For COVID Patients
Residents of the Indian capital are enduring one of the worst spells of air pollution in years, data released on...
Delhi Sees Most Toxic Air In A Year, Raising Covid-19 Worries
New Delhi, the capital city with the worst air quality worldwide, suffered its most toxic day in a year on...
Pollution Hangs Over Delhi As Farm Stubble Fires Rage
New Delhi’s air quality was at its worst this season on Thursday, as winds heavy with toxic smoke from polluting...
Trump Calling India Filthy Sets Off Calls For Cleaner Air
U.S. President Donald Trump’s description of India as a filthy place with polluted air has unleashed calls on social media...
Delhi Residents Worry About Toxic Mix Of Covid-19, Pollution
Families in Delhi with pre-existing health conditions such as asthma are stocking up on oxygen cylinders and pulse oximeters, fearing...
Scientists Sent Out To Tackle Winter Air Pollution Woes
Authorities have sent teams of scientists out to various parts of the national capital, New Delhi, and surrounding districts on...
As Wind Drops & Stubble Smoulders, Smog Returns To Delhi
Air quality in New Delhi deteriorated sharply on Tuesday as wind died down just as the burning of crop waste...
