In the Punjab region of Pakistan, record-high air pollution levels triggered hospitalizations and school closures, as cities ...

Air pollution, driven in large part by practices like crop burning, contributes to 2 million deaths a year in South Asia and ...

Nine out of the world’s 10 cities with the worst air pollution are in South Asia. Concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) in some of the region’s most densely populated and poor areas are ...

Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, recorded an unprecedented Air Quality Index (AQI) of 1900 on Saturday triggering authorities to take immediate measures as such dangerous pollution levels ...

indicating a shift from 'very poor' to 'poor' air conditions. Although there has been a decrease in farm fires, local pollution sources remain significant contributors to the declining air quality ...

The MOEF&CC said that cities have been provided with annual air pollution reduction targets for PM10 levels to achieve an overall reduction of up to 40 per cent by 2025-26 or to achieve National ...

Motivated by a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standard for air pollution, the team employed a model for fine-scale air pollution mapping using real-world data, and it indicates ...

8, 2024 — As air temperatures stay elevated through fall ... Researchers who previously demonstrated a cooling ... Plastics Pollution Worsen the Impacts of All Planetary Boundaries Nov. 7 ...

Dr. Rossetto said, "We know that air pollution is damaging for health, especially in terms of breathing and lung diseases, and this is likely to have an impact on our health services.

Every winter, Delhi-NCR chokes as much on the promises to cut air pollution as on pollution itself. Year after year, as the capital city’s air turns into a toxic haze, same old pledges of clean ...