Tag Archives: New Delhi

India’s Air Pollution Triggers Comparisons with China

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

In the Indian capital, New Delhi, levels of air pollution hit a new high this winter, triggering concerns about its adverse impact on public health, and particularly on children. Environmentalists compare New Delhi with Beijing, the other major city also … Continue reading →

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‘Hazardous’ air pollution in New Delhi now seen to rival Beijing’s

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

Think twice before taking a deep breath in New Delhi, where worsening air pollution has drawn comparisons with Beijing, the world’s pollution poster child. On bad days in India’s congested capital, the air is so murky it slows traffic to … Continue reading →

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Why Delhi is losing its clean air war

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

The US-based Environmental Preference Index has denied media reports suggesting it found air quality in Delhi worse than in Beijing. But while China’s capital appears to be slowly turning the pollution clock back, India’s first city seems to have given … Continue reading →

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India and China, Besieged by Air Pollution

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

The United States space agency published a map in September that showed how rates of premature deaths from air pollution vary around the world. It indicated that northern China has one of the worst rates, attributed to the density of … Continue reading →

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Diwali celebrations: Delhi’s air quality worse than last year’s

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

Many Delhiites felt that decibels levels on Diwali night were a shade lower than previous years, but the dense haze of near-choking pollution told a different story. Now the verdict is out. The PM 10 (coarse particles) levels this year … Continue reading →

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Worst air pollution in the world: Beijing, Delhi, Ahwaz, and Ulaanbaatar

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

I wake up and suck a bowl of charred asbestos through a dirty bong. Well, that’s what it feels like most winter mornings when I open the door of the fourth-floor New Delhi apartment that I currently call home. Fog-drenched … Continue reading →

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Diesel-powered motor vehicles blamed for most of Philippines air pollution

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

More than 500,000 diesel-fueled jeepneys, buses, trucks and other vehicles in Metro Manila are responsible for about 70 percent of the total soot or black carbon emissions in the Philippines, according to Climate Change Commissioner Heherson Alvarez. In a speech … Continue reading →

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Map Illustrates Air Pollution Across Asia, Middle East

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

This map, which is based on data from NASA’s satellite-based Ozone Monitoring Instrument, illustrates elevated levels of nitrogen dioxide over several cities across southwestern Asia and the Middle East from Jan. 1-8. Shades of orange reflect the relative abundance of … Continue reading →

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