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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 …

Compare lung sizes of Indian and US children, you’ll know who air pollution affects most Read More »

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 …

At 1.4 lakh in 2019, Maharashtra No. 2 in toxic air deaths Read More »

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, …

Mumbai’s Air Pollution: Artificial Lungs Put Up Start Turning Black Within A Week Read More »

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 …

Navi Mumbai: Residents of Kharghar, Taloja and Panvel are breathing polluted air Read More »

Making information widely accessible to the people has been central to India’s COVID-19 response. Since the pandemic began, people have developed new ways of disseminating information and raising awareness – like online dashboards that quantify the epidemic’s ‘progress’, Google maps that show hotspots in a given locality, and mobile apps that help with contact-tracing. These …

What Can COVID-19 Teach Our Government About Communicating Air Quality? Read More »

Particulate emissions from cooking stay in the atmosphere for longer than previously thought, making a prolonged contribution to poor air quality and human health, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Birmingham succeeded in demonstrating how cooking emissions—which account for up to 10 percent of particulate pollution in the U.K.—are able to …

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MUMBAI: The city was this year most polluted in October, according to Maharashtra Pollution Control Board. Mumbai’s October air quality index (AQI) of 149 was also the worst among nine locations MPCB monitored. MPCB on Monday uploaded a month-wise AQI average data of 20 locations for 2019 and 2020. An AQI of 101-200 is considered …

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