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Feb 10, 2025: What is Delhi’s Municipal Corporation doing to fix the capital’s air?

Today on Aaj Ka AQI, Avdhesh Kumar took stock of Delhi’s air outside the headquarters of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The PM 2.5 levels ranged between 200 and 210, PM 10 between 230 and 240, and the pollution level was officially categorised as ‘serious’.

Newslaundry

Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK

Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers

The Guardian - UK

Struggling to concentrate? It might be air pollution, study finds

Even brief exposure to particulate matter may impair a person’s ability to focus on tasks

Evening Standard

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This British invention could stop the world’s biggest cause of plastic pollution

A campaign has been launched to make it compulsory for cigarette butts to be biodegradable

The Independent UK

Fancy a dip in the Great Lakes? You might think twice after scientists revealed 'highest reported worldwide levels' of microplastics found in some Great Lakes fish.

Scientists are urging the US and Canadian governments to step up testing for microplastics in the iconic lakes

Advnture

Trump’s offshore wind energy freeze: What states lose if the executive order remains in place

A single wind turbine spinning off the U.S. Northeast coast today can power thousands of homes – without the pollution that comes from fossil fuel power plants. A dozen of those turbines together can produce enough electricity for an entire community.

The Conversation

Reducing air pollution could increase methane emissions from wetlands – here’s what needs to be done

What if well-meaning policies that reduce one atmospheric pollutant could also increase natural emissions of powerful greenhouse gases?

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Air pollution reduces people’s ability to focus on everyday tasks, study finds

Even brief exposure to particulate matter found to impede selective attention and emotional recognition

The Guardian - UK

Vehicle tyres found to be biggest source of nanoplastics in the high Alps

Mountaineers now scaling more peaks for first global study of nanoplastics, which can enter lungs and bloodstream

The Guardian - UK

Lung cancer in people who have never smoked on the rise - with research pointing to one common cause

New research points to air pollution as a growing contributor to lung cancer around the world

The Independent UK

Life in India: Air pollution forces anti-aging tech mogul to leave podcast midway

When you hear people complain about Delhi’s air, and you don’t live there yourself, you give yourself a little pat on the back. Well done, you think, for not living in a shroud of toxic air. How clever of you to have unwittingly made choices that led you away.

Newslaundry

Several flights diverted in Bangkok due to poor visibility caused by smog

Several flights were diverted at Bangkok’s airports this week as the Thai capital continued to battle dangerous levels of air pollution covering the city’s skyline.

The Independent UK

Bryan Johnson, anti ageing influencer and millionaire, leaves Nikhil Kamath's podcast due to THIS reason

Bryan Johnson, who is famous for challenging biological aging, recently left a podcast early. The billionaire took to Twitter to share his experience.

The Times of India

Norway rules out fish farm ban despite ‘existential threat’ to wild salmon

Open-net farms to continue despite numbers of wild fish halving as minister looks for ‘acceptable’ pollution levels

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The Guardian - UK

Lung cancer diagnoses on the rise among never-smokers worldwide

Research shows need for further studies into air pollution and other causal factors, expert says

The Times of India

Rethinking lung cancer: Risks, early detection, and modern treatment options

When it comes to the highest cancer-related mortalities in India, lung cancer has emerged as the major health burden in the past couple of years. According to the Lancet Report, India accounted for 72,510 lung cancer cases and 66,279 deaths in 2020. This can be attributed to the rising air…

The Conversation

Your environment affects how well your medications work − identifying exactly how could make medicine better

Your genes play a major role in determining your height, hair and eye color, and skin tone, but they don’t tell the entire story of who you are. Your environment is incredibly important in shaping your personality, your likes and dislikes, and your health. In fact, your diet, social interactions,…

The Conversation

While plastic dominates human consumption, the global economy will remain hooked on fossil fuels

In early December 2024, hopes for a landmark global treaty to curb plastic pollution were dashed as negotiations in South Korea stalled. Leading the campaign against the deal were major oil-producing nations, especially Saudi Arabia and Russia, who argued for a more flexible approach to any legally binding limits on…

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Bangkok Post

Hazardous air pollution in 57 of 77 Thai provinces

Fifty-seven out of 77 provinces in Thailand were blanketed with unsafe levels of ultrafine dust pollution on Monday morning, according to the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda).

Evening Standard

Neighbours complain 15,000 capacity K-pop festival in Wembley 'will stop children studying'

Plans for a 15,000-capacity K-pop festival in Wembley have led to complaints from residents concerned about noise pollution and disruption during exams

The Guardian - UK

Reach for the stars: the best dark-sky destinations in Britain

This month is viewed as galaxy season in the northern hemisphere, so seek out wide open spaces around the country to gaze up into the heavens, undimmed by light pollution

Space

How much did SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 explosion pollute the atmosphere?

The rapid unscheduled disassembly of SpaceX's Starship mega rocket may have released significant amounts of harmful air-pollution into the upper layers of Earth's atmosphere.

The Guardian - UK

Heathrow expansion puts the government on the flight path to years of trouble and strife

On top of the added levels of noise and air pollution, there’s the non-trivial matter of demolishing hundreds of homes, diverting several waterways and rerouting a long stretch of the M25

The Guardian - UK

Tax on UK incinerators may push councils to send more waste to landfill

Government scheme to penalise pollution from burning rubbish won’t ensure more is recycled, consultants warn

The Times of India

Deadly impact of microplastics: How they block blood flow in the brain, study reveals

Plastic pollution isn't just a menace to the environment anymore, but its damage now extends to several aspects of human health. The tiny particles of plastic that are not even visible to the human eye make their way into the body through food, inhalation, and skin contact.

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