"air-pollutants"

Thanks to the rains, the air the Hyderabad breathed this April was remarkably cleaner than even during the Covid-induced lockdown in April 2021

London: A study has revealed that around 180,000 avoidable deaths over 14 years in fast-growing tropical cities were caused by a rapid rise in emerging air pollution. The study was published in the journal, ‘Science Advances’. Scientists have revealed rapid degradation in air quality and increases in urban exposure to air pollutants hazardous to health. […]

The study was led by the University of Birmingham and UCL and included an international team of contributors from Belgium, India, Jamaica and the UK.

Researchers used a long record of data gathered by space-based instruments to estimate trends in a range of air pollutants for 2005 to 2018, timed to coincide with well-established air quality policies in the UK

Washing hands every time we return home is now an essential.

As the hazardous air quality in a few cities touched the severe plus mark last week, Practo, integrated healthcare company, witnessed a growth of 20 percent in respiratory related queries in few metro cities.

The two indicators can imply the biological susceptibility to deaths from COVID-19 and offer information of the severity of the COVID-19 deaths in the general population, respectively.