India is already baking under the weight of summer heat, which the country’s Meteorological Department expects only to get worse in the coming months. And, in extreme cases of extreme heat, recent days have seen India become home to the fifteen hottest cities in the world. On Friday, April 26th, the fifteen hottest cities in …
Asthma inhalers are a boon for lung patients, but they are damaging the environment according to UK researchers. The most commonly used asthma inhalers emit, per five doses, the same amount of greenhouse gases as a nine-mile journey by car. This has prompted the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to encourage …
Green teen Greta Thurnberg’s small effort to create awareness over climate change is winning her recognition across the world. In the last three days, the sixteen-year-old girl became a part of Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world; met Pope Francis at the Vatican; and charmed EU officials in Strasbourg. González, …
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Amidst India going to the polls to determine the composition of the 17th Lok Sabha, by-elections took place in Tamil Nadu to fill eighteen constituencies in the state’s Legislative Assembly. And in one village, residents are refusing to participate. The reason? Pollution. A polling booth established in the village of Nagaraja Kandigai has not seen …
Dust storms and heavy rains have again swept across northwestern India, leaving death and destruction in their wake. Numerous lives have been lost in the disaster, which came almost a year after similar high-velocity storms killed more than 127 people in northern parts of India. Almost fifty fatalities have been reported from four states according …
The global school strike against climate change for a greener and a cleaner world today enters its 34th week. It is #FridaysForFuture – a day for schoolchildren across the world to skip their classes and hit the streets to voice their concerns over global warming. Today in a remarkable development leading climate scientists joined the …
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Pollution from traffic is driving an asthma crisis in India’s children, a new study suggests. Exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) contributes to 350,000 new cases of childhood asthma in India every year, estimates a research paper published today in The Lancet. This is the second highest burden of new TRAP-related cancer cases in the …
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Chennai – a city reeling under water scarcity – is now battling water contamination woes. The Tamil Nadu state capital is facing an acute water shortage as temperatures soar in the city. Depletion of water reserves in lakes, wells and reservoirs has led to water scarcity plaguing 9.8 million people. Many Chennaiites are reliant upon …
The Indian media’s silence over a recent study highlighting the deaths of over one million people in 2017 due to pollution is an indication of how newsworthy pollution is – or isn’t – for the media industry, which rides high on political communication. Health is a boring subject for news media and now a new …
How can India expect to substantially improve public health when pollutants such as arsenic are commonly found in water supplies? A major contributor to cancer rates? Exposure to arsenic is well-documented as increase the risk of a number of cancers. Among these are skin cancer, bladder cancer and lung cancer. Along with an increased risk …
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