Cooking on open fires and kerosene lighting causes indoor air pollution, which is considered as one of the largest global public health issues

Chulhas - cook stoves of poor women who collect sticks, twigs, leaves and every other biomass material they can find to cook meals - are today at the centre of failing international action.

Gujarat high court on Wednesday asked the state government and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) to inspect five units of zero discharge machines installed with gasifiers to reduce polluti

It, along with Nigeria, continues to have low coverage levels for prevention and treatment interventions

India continues to have the highest pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease burden in the world, losing 4,00,000 children to these preventable diseases before they turn five, the latest report has revealed. Many more suffer from severe illness.

More than half of the people in the world rely on coal, wood, crop wastes or dung for their energy needs, according to the World Health Organization.

Household air pollution (HAP) is a major contributor to lower respiratory tract infections in children and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults, and remains a neglected issue, according

Environmental degradation costs India about Rs 8 crore, equivalent to 5.7 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), on an annual basis according to a World Bank report released on Wed