-The Hindu If we oppose every solution to the problem of air Pollution, how will we ever breathe clean air, asks the environmentalist Environmentalist Sunita Narain has been fighting for clean air for decades. The Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, with which she has been associated and now serves as director general, led the shift to compressed natural gas in Delhi, to reduce air Pollution. Ms. Narain is on the statutory...
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Malnutrition India's biggest health hazard, air Pollution a close second -Jayashree Nandi
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Child and maternal malnutrition continues to be the biggest health hazard in India since 1990, while deteriorating air quality came a close second, according to a recent report in one of the world's oldest medical journals. The report published in the Lancet journal has found that besides malnutrition and rising air Pollution, dietary risks, high systolic blood pressure and diabetes were other major risk factors in...
More »Bad air isn't just a Delhi problem, a lot more than 'odd-even' is needed -Nitya Nanda
-Deccan Chronicle Maintaining green cover (not just trees, but also grass and small plants) is a big challenge in Delhi due to the shortage of water. With the quality of Delhi’s air has again reached critical levels with severe Pollution, alarm bells have gone off, and the Delhi government announced it would bring back the “odd-even” scheme, that seems to be turning into an annual ritual. (The plan has been temporarily kept...
More »SC terms Delhi smog life-threatening
-The Hindu Seeks response of Centre, Punjab and Haryana govts. The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the Centre and the governments of Punjab, Delhi and Haryana on measures taken to counter the smog and Pollution choking the national capital and surrounding areas. Acknowledging the dire consequences that continued exposure to peaking levels of air Pollution would visit on the public, including schoolchildren, a Bench led by Chief Justice of India...
More »Stubble burning blamed for Delhi Pollution: Why farmers carry out the exercise -Manraj Grewal Sharma
-Hindustan Times The paddy straw is of no use to the farmer unlike the wheat straw, which is used as animal fodder. The paddy straw has high silica content that animals can’t digest. Chandigarh: The plain farming chore of burning after-harvest paddy stalks as farmers prepared their fields in Punjab and Haryana for the wheat crop never headlined so much as in the past month. The swirling smoke from the fire is blamed...
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