LONDON: Air pollution may negatively affect brain and cognitive development in children and adolescents, a new study has warned. Dispensed medication for psychiatric diagnosis can be related to air ...More

Just a three minute halt at the dusty, noisy and congested Teen Hath Nath junction could possibly reduce three hours of your lifetime, say experts considering the toxic cloud created by hundreds of ve ...More

More people died in Bengal from acute respiratory infection than in any other state every single year from 2009 to 2014, according to a Union government report. Experts described the trend as a revel ...More

Outdoor air pollution could cause 6 to 9 million premature deaths and represent an economic cost of around $2.6 trillion a year by 2060 unless action is taken, the Organisation for Economic Co-operati ...More

Of total 50 ‘polluting’ dyeing firms at Tajpur road and the industrial area that were issued notices by the Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) in its bid to contain deteriorating air-pollution leve ...More

The Umea University study, where the correlation between exposure to air pollution in residential areas and children's and adolescents' psychiatric health was studied, indicates that dispensed medicat ...More

Air pollution is a cause of great concern in our country and is said to affect the life span of Indians greatly. The life span of Indians, has been reduced by average 3.4 years because of the polluted ...More

Air Pollution could cause 6-9 million premature deaths by 2060, with India and China facing threat of maximum number of such mortalities, according to an OECD report. The menace is also likely to cos ...More

Patna: The Patna Junction area now has the dubious distinction of being the most polluted part of the state capital, followed by Patna City and Gandhi Maidan. That said, it is not all doom and gloom f ...More

NEW DELHI: Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today rejected a study which claimed that life expectancy in Delhi has been reduced by six years because of air pollution, stating that it was b ...More

On Tuesday, Minister called the report ‘motivated’, but retracted the statement NEW DELHI, JUNE 8: In a confusing turn of events, Prakash Javadekar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Envi ...More

The Union environment, forests and climate change minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday came back to again rubbish the study conducted by government’s Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorologywhich c ...More

BENGALURU: patients and a 3.1 per cent increase in female patients. Other than lifestyle choices, burning of garbage and toxic vehicle fumes are two prime reasons for this. Bengaluru is now the Indi ...More

Ignoring a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday approved a bill delaying an Obama administration rule setting stricter limits on air pollution linked to asthma and res ...More

THANE: A week-long awareness campaign against air poluution will be held at the traffic intersection of Teen Haath Naka junction by the city traffic police and the civic body from Wednesday. Vehicles ...More

Coimbatore: The government has termed as "malicious" and "incorrect" a recent report which said that pollution levels in India were so high that they could shorten one's life span by a couple of years ...More

PUNE: Air pollution has reduced the life expectancy of Indians by an average of 3.4 years with Delhi topping the list at 6.3 years, according to a study. Delhi is followed by West Bengal and Bihar ...More

Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday rejected the claims of a study released by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) which said that "life expectancy in Delhi has reduced ...More

Coimbatore, Jun 7 (PTI) The government today termed as "malicious" and "incorrect" a recent report which said that pollution levels in India were so high that they could shorten ones life span by a co ...More

KOLKATA: While the world geared up to mark another Environment Day on June 5, a new analysis by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) suggests Delhi's pollution troubles are far from over - despite ...More