india air pollution

Several areas, especially large cities and metropolises such as Delhi, have air quality much worse than the levels recommended. Nearly 93% of India’s population was living in areas with…

Poor air quality was the fourth leading risk factor for early death worldwide in 2019, surpassed only by high blood pressure, tobacco use and poor diet. Deaths attributable to PM2.5…

Delhi’s average life expectancy is 6.4 years lower than 69.4 — the national average. (Reuters/File)The World Health Organization’s message while updating its air quality guidelines (AQGs)…

Improving air quality of an area is dependent on a host of factors including tackling pollution at source, cleaning cities, mitigating the bad conditions of roads, boosting public transport…

According to the estimates of WHO, nearly 70 lakh people succumb every year to the problem of air pollution.In a significant bearing on the issue of pollution, the World Health Organisation…