As India continues to grow and urbanize, the need to address air pollution with urgency and innovation becomes even more ...

In India, much of the population breathes air that is 10 times more polluted than what the World Health Organization considers safe. In a study released in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Yale ...

Economic losses were in the billions. Pollution takes many forms in India, including the use of poorly-ventilated stoves and open fires for cooking inside dwellings. Photo by Mark Katzman. Air ...

A new study from the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet reveals that days with both high air pollution and extreme heat substantially raise the risk of death in Indian cities ...

Air pollution in major cities across India reached alarming levels in the past week, particularly in Delhi where residents face a public health emergency. The national capital region has been ...

A recent report by Lancet on the impact of air pollution in India in 2019 says that 1·67 million deaths were attributable to air pollution, accounting for 17.8% of the total deaths. It also ...

In India, a looming environmental ... cleanest route between two locations on a map. “Such models can observe the correlation between the Air Pollution Index and Traffic Volume,” Narayanan ...

"Air pollution remains a significant health burden in India, reducing life expectancy by an estimated 5.2 years," it said. According to the report, 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world ...

Ongoing research projects in the Observatory include: Air Pollution in India: Impacts on Disease, the Economy and Human Capital (supported by UN Environment); Human Health and Ocean Pollution ...

A study by researchers at IIT Delhi has found that air pollution and climate change will impair solar panel performance in India. It was published in Environmental Research Letters in November 2024.