The study highlights one potential environmental factor -- particulate matter air pollution -- that may help explain the trend of earlier ages of menarche being observed over the past 50 years.
All construction sites in Mumbai will compulsorily install sprinkler systems within 15 days and use the same for all times when the construction is ongoing, while anti-smog machines must be installed within 30 days from now
On October 5, about 18 hospitals came together to train 1,800 such medical students and nurses on the latest pulmonology and interventional techniques, making it the largest one-day training programme, he said.
Soumya Swaminathan Former Chief Scientist at World Health Organization (2019-2022) said the report highlights that funding to improve outdoor air quality is far too low at just 1 percent of total international development funding.
The Delhi government's control centre to monitor air pollution and redress complaints -- 'Green War Room' -- will start functioning round-the-clock from October 3, officials said on Monday.
Higher concentrations of nitrogen dioxide were linked to a 28 per cent increased risk of stroke and higher ozone levels were linked to a 5 per cent increase, the researchers said.
Ground-level ozone typically forms when nitrogen oxide emissions from vehicles and industrial processes react with volatile organic compounds emitted from vegetation in the presence of sunlight.
The AQLI also stated that from 1998 to 2021, average annual particulate pollution increased by 49.9 per cent in Pakistan which reduced life expectancy by 1.5 years.
The report by the Earth Commission, an international group of leading natural and social experts, warned that humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilisation
