Poor air quality was the fourth leading risk factor for early death worldwide in 2019, surpassed only by high blood pressure, tobacco use and poor diet. Deaths attributable to PM2.5 pollution in India have increased by 2.5 times over the last two decades, according to a new report by the Centre for Science and Environment. … Read more
Delhi’s average life expectancy is 6.4 years lower than 69.4 — the national average. (Reuters/File) The World Health Organization’s message while updating its air quality guidelines (AQGs) last month was stark: impact of air quality on public health was twice as bad as estimated previously. Despite lax standards, India is home to 37 of the … Read more
Improving air quality of an area is dependent on a host of factors including tackling pollution at source, cleaning cities, mitigating the bad conditions of roads, boosting public transport and taking afforestation drives. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released new air pollution norms, substantially bringing down the permissible air emissions for an area to … Read more
According to the estimates of WHO, nearly 70 lakh people succumb every year to the problem of air pollution. In a significant bearing on the issue of pollution, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has lowered the bar of pollution levels and released more stringent air quality guidelines for places that can be considered safe for … Read more
Increased transportation of people and goods leads to more fossil fuel-based emissions, and even the provision of more food leads to emissions and air pollution. Professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of York and a director of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science in the UK, Alastair Lewis is a leading international figure in … Read more