Air Quality and Health

Despite showers, air pollution stays dangerously high in Gurgaon

GURGAON: Air pollution is now categorized as a public health hazard by the World Health Organization.

Publication Date:

08/05/2014

Tags:

Haryana, Gurgaon (T), Air Pollution, WHO, Nitrogen Dioxide, Rainfall, Health Effects, Vehicular Pollution, CSE, Air Quality and Health

Health

Environmental burden of disease in Europe: Assessing nine risk factors in six countries

Environmental health effects vary considerably with regard to their severity, type of disease, and duration. Integrated measures of population health, such as environmental burden of disease (EBD), are useful for setting priorities in environmental health policies and research. This review is a summary of the full Environmental Burden of Disease in European countries (EBoDE) project report.

Publication Date:

01/05/2014

Author(s): Otto Hänninen, Anne B. Knol, Matti Jantunen & et al

Source: Environmental Health Perspectives

Vol:

122

Issue:

5

pp:

439-446

Tags:

Diseases, Europe, Smoking, Benzene, Dioxin, Lead, Congestion, Air Pollution, PM 2.5, Vehicular Pollution, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Air Quality and Health

Air Pollution

Beijing says one third of its pollution comes from outside the city

About a third of the air pollution in China's smog-hit capital comes from outside the city, official media reported on Wednesday, citing a pollution watchdog.

Publication Date:

16/04/2014

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

China, Beijing, Air Pollution, Industrial Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Air Quality Standards, Air Quality and Health

Air Pollution

After drawing flak, pollution control board devises strategy

The state Pollution Control Board is finally devising a strategy to deal with the situation in the state's industrial hub of Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN).

Publication Date:

16/04/2014

Author(s): Ambika Sharma

Source: Tribune (New Delhi)

Tags:

Himachal Pradesh, Solan (D), Air Pollution, Industrial Pollution, Mercury, Lead, Nickel, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Carbon Monoxide, Benzene, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Health Effects, Air Quality and Health

Air Pollution

Board to study pollution at city dumping yards

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) will soon install three stations to continuously monitor ambient air quality in the city.

Publication Date:

08/04/2014

Author(s): Deepa H. Ramakrishnan

Source: Hindu (Chennai)

Tags:

Tamil Nadu, Chennai (T), Garbage, Air Pollution, Air Quality Monitoring, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Air Quality Index (AQI), Air Quality and Health

Air Pollution

March had lowest air pollution in 4 yrs

Erratic Weather Influencing Air Quality

Publication Date:

07/04/2014

Author(s): Jayashree Nandi

Source: Times Of India (New Delhi)

Tags:

India, Air Pollution, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, CSE, Air Pollution Control, Air Quality and Health

Air Pollution

Nanoe-G Technology: Saving your Right to Breathe

More people die in road crashes in India than anywhere else in the world.

Every year, road accidents in India claim 1,42,485 lives. But there's something else that kills 6 times as many. Air pollution has become the 5th largest cause of death in India, with over 6,20,000 premature deaths. Globally, air pollution related deaths have increased 300%.

Publication Date:

03/04/2014

Source: Economic Times (New Delhi)

Tags:

India, Air Pollution, Health Effects, Global, Vehicular Pollution, Lung Disease, Sunita Narain, CSE, Indoor Air Pollution, Air Quality and Health

Air Pollution

GSTP1 and TNF gene variants and associations between air pollution and incident childhood asthma: The Traffic, Asthma and Genetics (TAG) Study

Genetics may partially explain observed heterogeneity in associations between traffic-related air pollution and incident asthma. The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of gene variants associated with oxidative stress and inflammation on associations between air pollution and incident childhood asthma.

Original Source

Publication Date:

01/04/2014

Author(s): Elaina A. MacIntyre, Michael Brauer, Erik Melén & et al

Source: Environmental Health Perspectives

Vol:

122

Issue:

4

pp:

418-424

Tags:

Air Pollution, Air Quality and Health, Health Effects, Asthma, Child Health, Congestion, Oxides Of Nitrogen (NOx), PM 2.5, Ozone, Canada

Transport

Transport for health: the global burden of disease from motorized road transport

This new World Bank report quantifies the health losses from road deaths and injuries worldwide, as part of the path-finding Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. Combined with the deaths arising from vehicle pollution, the road transport death toll exceeds that of, for example, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or diabetes

Publication Date:

31/03/2014

Author(s): Kavi Bhalla, Marc Shotten, Aaron Cohen, & et al

Source: The World Bank

Tags:

Transport, Road Transport, Motorised Vehicles, Health Effects, Diseases, India, Global, Vehicular Pollution, Air Pollution, Traffic Accidents, PM 2.5, Air Quality and Health

Air Pollution

Delhi has the worst air quality across India

With PM10 concentration, the Capital tops the pollution charts

Air pollution is known to cause shorter and sicker lives and Delhiites never seem to have had it so bad. The Capital has been listed as the worst performer across the country with respect to the presence of alarmingly high level of Particulate Matter up to 10 micrometer in size (PM10) concentration.

Publication Date:

31/03/2014

Author(s): Bindu Shajan Perappadan

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

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