New Delhi: Ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on Thursday, the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) convened an urgent meeting of Delhi government, rest of the NCR states and private cab an

You’re moving to China with your family, and you’re excited but also concerned: What might the country’s notorious smog do to your and your children’s lungs?

Preterm birth (PTB) rates (11.4% in 2013) in the United States (US) remain high and are a substantial cause of morbidity. Studies of prenatal exposure have associated particulate matter <2.5microns in diameter (PM2.5) and other ambient air pollutants with adverse birth outcomes, yet, to our knowledge, burden and costs of PM 2.5-attributable PTB have not been estimated in the US. The objective of the study was to estimate burden of PTB in the US and economic costs attributable to PM2.5 exposure in 2010.

Terming the fire at the Deonar dumping ground as a serious lapse, the Central government on Monday said the two-member probe team has prepared its report and a meeting will be convened soon to disc

Odd-Even Remains Central To Govt Plan But No Extra Funds For Yamuna

Environmentalists are calling for the NSW government to include coal mining in its "pay to pollute" scheme after analysis revealed the industry was responsible for a significant proportion of the h

Data from the Delhi Pollution Control Committee’s (DPCC’s) monitoring stations showed that at Punjabi Bagh, in the last 24 hours, a peak of 291 micrograms per cubic metre of particulate matter (PM)

Air quality of several Mumbai areas on Monday oscillated between “poor” and “very poor”, against the backdrop of Deonar dumping ground fire, while in Delhi it was “good” due to favourable weather c

Even as the government downplayed Greenpeace India's report where it said India had overtaken China's air pollution levels in 2015, the NGO today said a discussion on it would reinforce the call fo

Experts say Ozone levels go up with the rise in temperatures, as the gas is formed from a photochemical reaction which needs high sunlight. “Ozone does not have any source of its own.

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