Tag: air pollution

LAHORE: With the Punjab Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failing to measure the accurate data of air quality in the city, the negligence of the agency...

ISLAMABAD: 95 percent of the world's population, Pakistanis among them, breath dangerous air, a report published by the Health Effects Institute had revealed. According to...

LAHORE: The Supreme Court (SC) on Saturday summoned members of a commission, formed by the Lahore High Court (LHC) to look into the causes of...

LAHORE: While the dearth of technology at the brick kilns has resulted in an increased amount of smoke and subsequently the spread of viral diseases,...

Kindergartens, schools and high schools in Iran's capital Tehran remained closed for a second consecutive day on Tuesday due to heavy air pollution. Tehran Province's...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s urban air pollution situation is causing more than 20,000 premature deaths among adults each year, reported by The Express Tribune.  According to a...

DELHI: India and Sri Lanka played the third test match of an already one sided series under bizarre circumstances as play had to be stopped...

  KARACHI: A World Health Organisation (WHO) report issued from Geneva has said that the combined effects of the ambient (outdoor) and household air pollution...

  ISLAMABAD: Punjab Government has imposed a ban on the burning of agriculture residues, municipal solid waste, plastic, polythene bags, rubber and leather items. According to a...

LAHORE: The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) of Punjab has asked for work to stop on the Punjab Safe City Authority (PSCA) as it was causing...

KARACHI: The air quality in Karachi is on the nosedive and the presence of heavy smoke in the air of the city has resulted in...

Emissions from diesel cars rigged to appear eco-friendly may be responsible for 5,000 air pollution deaths per year in Europe alone, according to a...

  Between 1990 and 2015, India, Bangladesh saw their pollution-caused deaths up by over 50% A recent study on global air pollution claims that the...

  Punjab’s Environment Protection Department (EPD) has failed to control vehicular pollution in Lahore and other major urban centres of the province, posing serious threat...