Air pollution harms both health and cognitive functions, reducing focus and memory even with short-term exposure. Read on to ...

For Delhi, a transition to electric mobility would lead to substantial savings in healthcare costs, currently estimated at over ₹ 11,000 crore in mortality and morbidity losses. Bengaluru and Chennai ...

The UK paper reports that, according to WHO research, Finland meanwhile has the lowest rate of lung cancer caused by air ...

If only the story had ended there. Despite that legislative success, the poorer nations of the world have never stopped being ...

However, few studies have examined this aspect. Several papers describe deleterious effects on health from chronic and acute air pollution exposure. However, there has been no research into the ...

The phrase “urban firestorm” has terrified me since I first heard it, from the climate scientist Daniel Swain, who was spooling out for me a bleak recent history — Fort McMurray, Santa Rosa, Paradise, ...

Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India When you hear the phrase “coal-fired power plant,” what images come to ...

This paper uses U.S. Toxic Release Inventory data on air lead emissions to provide IV estimates of the effects of air lead concentration on infant mortality. The causal effect of lead on infant ...

These immediate harmful effects of pollution are well-documented and much talked about. What gets less attention is the ...

Dozens of civil society organisations, activists, and lawyers urged the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change ...

"Freedom to Breathe" campaign was launched in Allegheny County by the Black Appalachian Coalition to address air pollution in ...

For decades, people cleaned their windows with newspaper and vinegar since it was an easy and inexpensive option that didn’t ...