While the government is organising various programmes to mark the renewable energy week, local authorities in Dolakha have declared a plan to make the district free of indoor smoke by 2016.

AN explosion of car use has made fast-growing Asian cities the epicentre of global air pollution and become, along with obesity, the world’s fastest growing cause of death according to a major stud

Study published by Lancet says surge in car use in south and east Asia killed 2.1m people prematurely in 2010

According to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, a global initiative involving the World Health Organisation, in South Asia, air pollution is ranked as the sixth most dangerous killer.

According to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, a global initiative involving the World Health Organisation, in South Asia, air pollution is ranked as the sixth most dangerous killer.

India needs to wake up to the threat from rising air pollution, which has been declared as one of the top 10 killers in the world by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, which tracks deaths an

High blood pressure (BP) has become the world’s deadliest diseasecausing risk factor.

Air is constantly being circulated in large cities as air conditioning and heating units intake city air and use it to heat and cool their offices and residential buildings.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has just launched a study examining the impact of open-fire cooking on regional air quality and human health.