Tag: air pollution
Hazardous air pollutants cross WHO safe air quality standards
ISLAMABAD: Hazardous pollutants of particulate matter of 2.5 microns has exceeded World Health Organization (WHO) and National Environment Quality Standards (NEQS) standards as ambient quality...
Five mills sealed for causing air pollution
LAHORE: A team of the Environment Protection Department (EPD) has sealed five steel re-rolling mills - which were causing air pollution - in Ahmed...
Air pollution as bad as smoking a cigarette pack per day
ISLAMABAD: Researchers have found that ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change can accelerate lung disease as much as smoking a pack of...
Minister stresses need for countering air pollution in capital
ISLAMABAD: Minister for National Health Services Aamer Mehmood Kiani taking notice of air pollution in the federal capital on Sunday requested the Prime Minister’s...
Pakistan among top 5 countries with highest mortality rate due to...
--Study says children in South Asia hardest hit by air pollution
Air pollution will shorten the life expectancy of children born today by an average...
WHO says air pollution kills 600,000 children every year
GENEVA: Air pollution kills an estimated 600,000 children every year and causing symptoms ranging from loss of intelligence to obesity and ear infections but there...
Air pollution a new tobacco killing 7m people a year, warns...
ISLAMABAD: Air pollution is the “new tobacco”, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned, saying that the simple act of breathing is...
Karachi, Lahore among cities with worst air pollution
Lahore and Karachi are among the 10 most polluted cities in the world in terms of air quality, according to air quality monitor AirVisual.
India’s...
Govt to set up Punjab Clean Air Commission to control pollution,...
LAHORE: Punjab government has decided to set up Punjab Clean Air Commission to control pollution and smog, and in this regard, committees have been established...
Air pollution may shorten Pakistanis’ lives by more than one year:...
KARACHI: Air pollution may shorten human life of Pakistanis by more than a year on an average since the country is located in a...
Cancer-causing industrial stack emissions continue to go unchecked in province
--EPA fails to fulfill its duties as experts warn of serious health calamities in near future
--Environmental Protection spokesperson assures soonest enhancement of laboratories’ capacity
LAHORE: Amid...
High temperature, water scarcity, air pollution top environmental challenges: survey
ISLAMABAD: Temperature, water scarcity and air pollution were cited as top three environmental challenges of the country in Pakistan's first ever Environment Barometer survey...
Air pollution plays significant role in diabetes
PARIS: Air pollution caused one in seven new cases of diabetes in 2016, according to a US study, which found even low levels raised...
Monsoon is both a pollution pump and a cleanser, says study
ISLAMABAD: Like Janus, the Greek god, the South Asian monsoon has two faces, according to a report by researchers from Germany in journal Science.
The report...
Mongolians sip ‘oxygen cocktails’ to combat smog
ULAANBAATAR: Fed up with the smog in Mongolia's capital, residents have resorted to sipping "lung" tea and "oxygen cocktails" in a desperate bid to...
Pakistan moves to curb urban air pollution following high court ruling
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s environmental protection agency is installing air quality monitors and warning factories to add pollution filters after a panel of the country’s top...
