The average person can go up to two months without food, three days without water, but only a few minutes without air. Breathable air is essential to life. Yet a new analysis found that last year, only 10 countries and 9% of global cities had air quality that met World Health Organization guidelines for harmful … Read more
NEW DELHI: India was ranked the third most polluted country and New Delhi the most polluted capital by the 2023 World Air Quality report by Swiss technology company, IQAir. The latest report by the company that provides live information on major air pollutants globally, also found Begusarai in Bihar as the most polluted city globally … Read more
Just 50 kilometers from Johannesburg, in a South African region known as the Vaal Triangle, 1.7 million people are living in a crossfire of some of the most dangerous pollution on Earth. From the highway into Vanderbijlpark, you can see the heavy veil of smoke that cloaks Africa’s biggest steel mill. To the southeast, near … Read more
New Delhi: Type 2 diabetes has now been added to the long list of diseases directly associated with air pollution, according to a critical first-of-its-kind study from India that was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Thursday. Conducted in Delhi and Chennai between 2010 and 2017 by researchers from India and the US, the … Read more