Even as a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is sweeping across India with surges in rates of infections and number of mortalities, a recently released report by Assocham and the Thought Arbitrage Research Institute, on the risks posed by non-communicable diseases in the country, draws our attention to this under-reported but important healthcare issue. …
Mumbai had an annual average PM 2.5 concentration of 41.3 micrograms/cubic metre, which is nearly four times above the WHO limit, according to IQAir, a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on concentration of Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5. In the last one year, there was improvement in the annual average of PM 2.5 …
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India could soon have a single law governing air, water and environment-related activities, one of the senior-most officials in the environment ministry said on Tuesday. The Union environment ministry plans to table a new environmental management law that will subsume the Air Act 1981, Water Act 1974, and the Environment (Protection) Act 1986 and serve …
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The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) is known for adopting the latest technology in its day-to-day work. Now, citizens can share their feedback on a public toilet by just scanning a QR code, put it up outside the complex. NMMC has already has received a Double Plus rating for open defecation free (ODF) city and …
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In 1986, the Central government had launched the Central Rural Sanitation Programme — the first nationwide programme aimed at dealing with issues related to sanitation. Several other sanitation programmes were launched in the next 28 years, like the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan in rural India and Basic Services for Urban Poor in urban India. However, India’s …
The analysis also shows that north Delhi recorded the worst pollution levels in the city this winter, with Jahagirpuri emerging as the hot spot with the worst air. There were two continuous smog episodes during this year’s winter. The first episode was of longer duration as it started on November 3 and lasted seven days. …
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MUMBAI: With the city adding more high-rises and highways in the last decade, road dust now makes up over 71% of the particulate matter in Mumbai’s air, as opposed to 28% in 2010, says a study by the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). The source-identification study for …
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NEW DELHI: An evaluation of 88 clusters, identified by central and state pollution control boards as polluted industrial areas, has thrown up a “bleak picture of air, water and land contamination”in India, the Centre for Science and Environment’s State of India’s Environment report 2021 shows, reports Vishwa Mohan Referring to the CPCB’s evaluation of the …
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Smaller and upcoming cities emerging as pollution hotspots, says report. The levels of PM 2.5, the most threatening of particulate matter, worsened in 43 out of 99 cities whose winter air in two years, 2020 and 2019, was compared by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Only 19 registered “substantial improvement” — and one …
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Childhood exposure to air pollution, including wildfire smoke and car exhaust, for even short periods of time, can lead to higher rates of heart disease and other ailments in adulthood, says a new Stanford-led study. Published in Nature Scientific Reports, the study confirms previous research that bad air can alter gene regulation in a way …
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