The shopping website Daraz has reported a spike in searches for air purifiers and face masks since last October, especially in Punjab. Pulmonologist Dr Khawar Abbas Chaudhry laments the deterioration of Lahore, which he describes as a “once beautiful” city. The hospital where he works is part of the Bill Gates-backed Evercare Group that has … Read more
New Delhi: The Centre on Monday revoked the restrictions under Stage-III of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) in Delhi-NCR with immediate effect. The Union Environment Ministry, however, said that restrictive actions under Stage-I to Stage-II of the GRAP will remain invoked and be implemented, monitored and reviewed by all agencies concerned in the entire … Read more
Home Education Delhi Schools Advised To Go ONLINE? Focus On Govt’s Action Plan As Air Quality Deteriorates Again Due to the escalating pollution in Delhi, there’s a chance the government might announce an early winter break for school children. Delhi Schools Advised To Go ONLINE? Focus On Govt’s Action Plan As Air Quality Deteriorates Again … Read more
Pakistan has been forced to artificially induce rain as it tries to curb pollution levels in cities like Lahore. This comes weeks after the authorities were forced to shut down schools and public places due to poor air quality. The city, which is located in the Punjab province of the country, is one of the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Indoor air quality at offices could negatively impact the creativity of workers, according to a new study.Researchers at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, found that the 87 study participants, all undergraduate and postgraduate students, produced creative output with lower scores when there were high indoor levels of volatile organic compounds, including gases … Read more
Automakers are set to get a jolt Tuesday when Ottawa unveils its promised electric vehicle regulations. CBC News has learned that Ottawa will release final regulations it says will ensure that all new passenger cars sold in Canada by 2035 are zero-emission vehicles, a senior government source said. The source — who was not authorized to speak publicly — … Read more
Lahore, Pakistan — Artificial rain was used for the first time in Pakistan on Saturday in a bid to combat hazardous levels of smog in the megacity of Lahore, the provincial government said. In the first experiment of its kind in the South Asian country, planes equipped with cloud seeding equipment flew over 10 areas … Read more
As Hurricane Larry lashed Newfoundland in 2021, university students from Halifax headed to a rural area in its track to find out whether the ocean might whip microplastics up into the atmosphere then transport them by air to otherwise pristine communities. The results, you could say, blew their socks off. “It was such, like, an astonishing result that we … Read more
