RECLAIM THE little LUNGS
Landmark study (by Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute) lies buried: How Delhi’s poisonous air is damaging its children for life.It doesn’t get bigger than this, in size, scale and rigour — scientists from one of India’s top cancer institutes tracked [more…]
As per a survey [by Breathe Blue’15]. While the lung health screening test (LHST) results were ‘poor’ for 14% of the students, 22% were detected to be in the ‘bad’ category [more…]
This was followed by что посмотреть в Новороссийске Bengaluru at 36 per cent (14 per cent ‘poor’ and 22 per cent ‘bad’), 35 per cent in Kolkata (nine per cent ‘poor’ and 26 per cent ‘bad’) and 27 per cent in Mumbai (13 per cent ‘poor’ and 14 per cent ‘bad’) [more…]
The writer of the New York Times story, Gardiner Harris, provides a frightening personal twist on the data: After moving his family to India, his own son suddenly developed asthma and doctors later discovered that he had lost half of his lung capacity [more…]
Air quality monitoring conducted early this month by Greenpeace India at major Bangalore landmarks – from Christ College to the Reserve Bank of India – has revealed PM10 readings massively in violation of national and international safety standards [more…]
If you thought China’s smog was bad, Delhi’s air pollution levels can be twice as high, with even less government action to show for it. India’s air pollution is not only far worse than any of the other BRICs, it is so intense that it is reducing plants’ ability to photosynthesize sunlight, cutting crop yields in half [more…]
Doctors in the city have witnessed a spike in the numbers of cases of respiratory illness by 20 per cent. Cases of viral infection, cough, sneezing, respiratory tract infection and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have gone up [more…]
Delhi’s severely high pollution levels during the winter months drives it to India’s worst annual air quality levels, but on individual days, several Indian cities often experience worse air quality. For the first week of April, for example, the urban area [more…]
India’s dirty urban air is already taking a heavy toll. The most recent Global Burden of Disease report estimated that ambient air pollution was responsible for 586,788 premature deaths in India in 2013, up from 365,592 in 1990 [more…]