Rohit Mehra, Additional Commissioner in the Income Tax Department, has used 70 tonnes of waste plastic bottles as pots for creating vertical gardens in Ludhiana. Speaking to news agency ANI, Mehra said, “Using at least 70 tonnes of waste plastic bottles as pots, we have setup more than 500 vertical gardens at public places.” READ …

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The WHO states that in poorly ventilated houses the smoke that is generated from cooking using solid fuels, can have levels 100 times higher than acceptable fine particles. India’s record on air pollution is infamous. The recent World Air Quality Report found that 22 out of 30 most polluted cities based on PM 2.5 (particulate …

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In the discussions on air pollution, IAP often loses out to outdoor pollution. But as the extent of the challenge shows, IAP is an equally big problem. Let’s not brush it under the carpet. Pollutants emitted by the incomplete combustion of solid fuels or kerosene for cooking, heating and lighting are associated with serious health …

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The number of ACE-2Rs are significantly higher in patients with COPD, especially in their lung. This makes them more vulnerable to catch the infection. Once the already compromised lung gets infected with SARC-Cov2 virus, they readily develop Covid pneumonia and its sequalae. Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Dr Sundeep Salvi, Director, Pulmocare Research and …

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The economic loss due to air pollution in India is a staggering $37 bn; need to fight household pollution more effectively. An analysis of the loss of lives, disease burden, life expectancy and economic loss due to air pollution across Indian states by the Indian State-Level Disease Burden Initiative, published in Lancet, notes that the …

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By now it is clear that we’re headed straight into the vortex of a national public health emergency and that our children are the most deeply affected. Every day, I find new studies that validate this fact, such as the one in the Yale Global Health Review which says that Delhi’s children are the most …

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MUMBAI: Maharashtra, which has safer air parameters than many north Indian states, is second in the statewise list of premature deaths due to air pollution in 2019. The state recorded 1.4 lakh air pollution-linked deaths while UP recorded the highest with 3.5 lakh deaths. The all-India figure is 17 lakh deaths — 18% of all …

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NEW DELHI: Air pollution killed nearly 1.7 million people in India in 2019, accounting for an alarming 17.8% of all deaths in the country in the year, a new paper written as a collaborative effort by Indian institutions that include ICMR has said. The economic loss due to lost output from premature deaths and disease …

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A pair of white artificial lungs, installed in Mumbai’s Bandra to create awareness on the city’s high pollution levels and their adverse health effects, have turned grey, and are nearing pitch black just eight days after installation. The local administration had installed the pair of artificial lungs at Bandra Kurla Complex on Thursday, January 16, …

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A month-long study conducted by an NGO has found that the residents living in the Kharghar-Panvel-Taloja belt are breathing polluted air. In fact, the study suggests that morning walks could end up doing more damage to people’s health than good.  A month-long air quality monitoring was carried by the Waatavaran Foundation between November 13 to …

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