Data & Reports
Global pact to stop air pollution
Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade Five national academies of science and medicine have urged the world to adopt concrete measures to tackle air pollution and […]
Tag: air pollution
Cities
Electric buses a golden opportunity for India
Aniruddha Bhattacharjee India must not squander this chance, must not repeat the mistakes it made with CNG Back in 1980, Shenzen was a small […]
Data & Reports
Air pollution leads to millions of emergency room visits for asthma attacks
Ylva Rylander/SEI Nine to 33 million visits to the emergency room for asthma worldwide may be triggered by breathing in air polluted by ozone […]
Cities
Kolkata India’s air pollution capital
Jayanta Basu Vehicular pollution, particularly from diesel cars and trucks, are primarily responsible for the worsening air quality in Kolkata, which is emerging as […]
Cities
Dhaka chokes on air pollution
Kamran Reza Chowdhury A multitude of factors are contributing to increasingly polluted air in Bangladesh, but so far not much is being done about […]
Cities
New Delhi smog “rivals 1952 London”
Ranjit Devraj Pollution levels in the Indian capital this month have rivaled 1952 London, when smog killed around 4,000 people, pollution experts say. On […]
Data & Reports
In India, air pollution 2nd largest killer and children are growing smaller lungs
Landmark studies shows air pollution is now the second largest killer in India and another recent study in Journal of Indian Paediatrics shows children in […]
Cities
Every Londoner is exposed to dangerous toxic air particles
Every area of London is exposed to air pollution beyond WHO standards and 7.9 million Londoners live in areas exceeding air quality guidelines by at […]
Environment
Watch: Independent air pollution monitoring in the Balkans
Up in the Air: Independent air quality monitoring by Bank Watch in locations across the Balkan region show how dire the situation is near […]
Data & Reports
Ozone air pollution, kills a million every year
New research links long-term exposure to ozone air pollution with one million premature deaths per year due to respiratory diseases, which is 125 % […]
Environment
Civil society needed to enforce environmental law
Olivia Boyd After beating the UK government on illegal air pollution, environmental lawyer James Thornton hopes to support citizen-led lawsuits in China’s courts American lawyer […]
Climate
The new UN deal on aviation emissions leaves much to be desired
David Hodgkinson and Rebecca Johnston International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) chose a global carbon offset scheme to deal with international aviation emissions Emissions fron international flights – a […]
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