Air Pollution

Supreme Court order dated 05/04/2002 in the case of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India and Ors on vehicular pollution in Delhi

Supreme Court order dated 05/04/2002 in the case of M. C. Mehta Vs Union of India and Ors on vehicular pollution in Delhi.

Publication Date: 
05/04/2002
Supreme Court of India
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Vehicular Pollution, Supreme Court, Urban Air Quality, Delhi, CNG, Public Transport, Fuel Quality, Diesel, Vehicular Standards, Petrol, Air Pollution Control, Environment Act 1986, Respiratory Diseases, Heart Diseases, Air Pollution
India

 Driving out petrol cars

Bold clean air campaign launched in Italian city

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
Down to Earth
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Pollution Control, Vehicular Pollution, Health Effects, Respiratory Diseases, Petrol, Cars, Legislation, Europe, Italy
Air Pollution

 Bloody disclosure

Lethal and tiny air pollutants can reach deep into human bloodstream

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
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Air Pollution, Respiratory Diseases, Diagnostic Methods, Smoking, Research
India

 Billowing Rage

The Sukruli cauldron threatens to boil over if the Orissa government does not act against the smoke spewing sponge iron plant in the area.

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
Satyasundar Barik
Down to Earth
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Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Health Effects, Water Act 1974, Respiratory Diseases, Tribals, Women, Children, Tuberculosis, Skin Diseases, Legislation, India, Orissa (Odisha), Bhubaneswar, Toxic Wastes, Crops
India

 Breathing easy

A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum

Publication Date: 
14/01/2002
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Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Malnutrition, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Children, Health Care, Medical Research, Child Health, Smoking, Genetic Resources, Africa, Mexico, New Zealand, India, Delhi
India

 Gasping millions

Asthma, the bane of modern life, stalks the young ones and the affluent. It will strike 32 million people in India by 2010. The silent strangler has a propensity to waylay its victims, striking with stealth. An analysis into what triggers the killer which

Publication Date: 
14/01/2002
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Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Malnutrition, Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Children, Health Care, Medical Research, Child Health, Smoking, Genetic Resources, Africa, Mexico, New Zealand, India, Delhi
Air Pollution

 Deadly Dimensions

Diesel may be the most commercially viable fuel at present, but one that raises serious doubts on the future of urban health. Sundeep Salvi of Air Pollution Research Group, Southhampton, UK, talks to Sari

Publication Date: 
14/01/2002
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Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Arsenic, Health Effects, Benzene, Respiratory Diseases, Diesel, Dioxin, Research, Legislation, Europe, India, Delhi
Air Pollution

Outdoor air pollution and emergency room visits at a hospital in Delhi

Several reports from large metropolitan cities have indicated significant association between acute morbidity and mortality from cardio-respiratory disorders and daily levels of major pollutants in the ambient air.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2002
J.N. Pande, N. Bhatta, D. Biswas & et al
Indian Journal of Chest Diseases & Allied Sciences
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Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Health Effects, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Heart Diseases, CSE, Delhi, J.N. Pande, N. Bhatta, D. Biswas & et al, Indian Journal of Chest Diseases & Allied Sciences
Health

 Choking link

Ultrafine pollution particles can penetrate very deep into the lungs

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
Down to Earth
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Pollution, Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, Health Effects, Respiratory Diseases, Health, Children, Medical Research
India

  Coma after death

Child victims of a frayed medical service and a government programme gone wrong raise a mute question

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
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Infant mortality, Respiratory Diseases, Children, Health Care, Governance, India, Assam, Lucknow (D)

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