Air Pollution

NO2 levels hover near danger mark; docs warn of respiratory ailments

BENGALURU: It's not just suspended particulate matter that is choking Bengaluru.

Publication Date: 
21/11/2017
Times Of India (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Air Pollution, Respiratory Diseases, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Bangalore (T), Vehicular Pollution
Health

No dip in number of respiratory disease patients post Diwali

JAIPUR: It has come as a shocker for city's pulmonologists when they noticed that numbers patients with respiratory diseases have not gone down even after one month of Diwali, which was a usual tre

Publication Date: 
20/11/2017
Syed Intishab Ali
Times Of India (Jaipur)
Tags:
Rajasthan, Jaipur (T), Respiratory Diseases, Air Pollution, Health Effects, Health
Air Pollution

Tackling the health burden of air pollution in South Asia

Air pollution exposure is the second most important risk factor for ill health in South Asia, contributing to between 13% and 21.7% of all deaths and approximately 58 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) through chronic and acute respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses.1 Of the top 30 cities in the world with the poorest air quality in 2016, 17 are in South Asia.2 The impact of air pollution transcends boundaries. The “brown cloud”—caused by pollution from carbon aerosols—is a phenomenon captured in satellite images of atmospheric haze over South Asia, as well as China.

Publication Date: 
17/11/2017
Bhargav Krishna, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Amna R Siddiqui & et al
BMJ
1-5
Tags:
Air Pollution, South Asia, Health Effects, India, Respiratory Diseases, Indoor Air Pollution, PM 2.5, RSPM (PM 10), Household Energy, LPG, Bangladesh, Pakistan
Air Pollution

Air pollution triggers health hazards

PATNA: Winter is normally an enjoyable season, but it has lately turned into the most polluted time of the year in Patna.

Publication Date: 
17/11/2017
Times Of India (Patna)
Tags:
Bihar, Air Pollution, Patna (T), Air Quality Index (AQI), Respiratory Diseases, Lung Disease
Air Pollution

Delhi kids have smaller lungs compared with children in US due to air pollution’

Smaller lungs mean poorer exercise capacity, and greater vulnerability to respiratory symptoms and diseases, says a recently released study

Publication Date: 
15/11/2017
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Air Pollution, Child Health, Health Effects, Respiratory Diseases, Lung Disease, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR)
Health

Lifestyle diseases biggest killer even in most backward states: Report

NEW DELHI: Lifestyle diseases like heart and chronic respiratory diseases now kill more people than communicable ones like tubercolosis or diarrhoea in every state in India, including the most back

Publication Date: 
15/11/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Lifestyles, Tuberculosis (TB), Non Communicable Diseases, Respiratory Diseases, Diarrhoea, Health Effects, Health
Health

Malnutrition India's biggest health hazard, air pollution a close second

NEW DELHI: Child and maternal malnutrition continues to be the biggest health hazard in India since 1990, while deteriorating air quality came a close second, according to a recent report in one of

Publication Date: 
15/11/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Malnutrition, Child Health, Air Pollution, Respiratory Diseases, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Diabetes, Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR), Health
Air Pollution

Coal pollution alert for India

New Delhi: India is set to overtake China and become the world's largest emitter of sulphur dioxide, an air pollutant that is generated when coal is burnt and can lead to severe haze, acid rain and

Publication Date: 
10/11/2017
G.S. Mudur
Telegraph (Kolkata)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Coal Industry, Industrial Pollution, Respiratory Diseases, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Air Pollution

Indoor human exposure to size-fractionated aerosols during the 2015 Southeast Asian smoke haze and assessment of exposure mitigation strategies

The 2015 smoke haze episode was one of the most severe and prolonged transboundary air pollution events ever seen in Southeast Asia (SEA), affecting the air quality of several countries within the region including Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The 24 h mean outdoor PM2.5 (particulate matter (PM) with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 μm) concentrations ranged from 72–157 μg m−3 in Singapore during this episode, exceeding the WHO 24 h mean PM2.5 guidelines (25 μg m−3) several times over.

Publication Date: 
09/11/2017
Ruchi Sharma, Rajasekhar Balasubramanian
Environmental Research Letters
1-12
Tags:
Air Pollution, Indoor Air Pollution, Health Effects, Aerosols, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, PM 2.5, Respiratory Diseases, Forest Fires, Biomass Burning
Energy

EPA Estimates Rolling Back Clean Power Plan Could Cause 100,000 Deaths By 2050

In its mania to prove how horrible the Clean Power Plan is, the EPA has rejiggered the numbers and found — the Clean Power Plan could save more lives than the Obama officials thought.

Publication Date: 
08/11/2017
Clean Technica
Tags:
Energy, Renewable Energy, United States Of America (US), Health Effects, Electricity, Respiratory Diseases

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