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Life Expectancy Drops Six Years in Delhi Due to Pollution |
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 According to a study by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology on premature mortalities due to PM2.5 (finer particulate matter) and ozone exposure, Delhi might be paying the steepest price for its air pollution with life expectancy dropping by 6.4 years while Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra are likely to account for the highest number of premature deaths in India.
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ADB Loan to Help Tackle Water Stress, Climate Threats in India's Cauvery Delta |
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 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $100 million loan to strengthen a key irrigation system and improve water management in the Vennar sub-basin of the Cauvery delta in Tamil Nadu—one of India's most water-stressed states.
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CSIR Labs to Come up with New Rice Variety, Anti-Malaria Drug |
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 The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)-run laboratories will come up with significant consumer products over the next two years.
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India's First Mangrove Centre to be Set Up in Vizag |
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 Around 100 acres of land has been identified by the district administration at Yerrakonda near Simhachalam for setting up India's first exclusive Centre for Mangroves and Coastal Ecology under the Institute of Forest Biodiversity which is under the aegis of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education.
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WHO's Health Report Card Confirms India's Massive Non-Communicable Disease Burden |
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 Diseases of the heart and of the lung remain the bane of India's disease burden, being the top two causes of the deaths, respectively, as shown by the recently released WHO World Health Statistics Report, 2016.
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India's E-Waste Growing at 30 per cent Annually |
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 India is fast emerging as one of the world's major electronic waste generators, posing grave concerns to public health and environment alike.
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Air Pollution Linked to Increased Mental Illness in Children |
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 A major new study has linked air pollution to increased mental illness in children, even at low levels of pollution.
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More than 41 Million People in Southern Africa Face Food Insecurity |
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 An estimated 41 million people are food insecure with 21 million people requiring immediate assistance in Southern Africa, after a drought ravaged the region.
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Antarctic Sees Highest Level of Greenhouse Gas in Four Million Years |
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 Carbon dioxide levels in Antarctica have reached their highest levels for four million years.
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Year 2016 Set to be Hottest Year Since 1880 |
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 After 12 consecutive months that broke heat records, there's a 99 per cent chance that 2016 will be the hottest of the last 136 years, according to the latest data released on March 2016.
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Climate Change Claims First Endangered Species |
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 The loss of an endangered mammal is being blamed on human-induced climate change—the first such occurrence in the world.
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Tibet Plans New Wetland Nature Reserve |
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 The government of southwest China's Tibet autonomous region is planning to establish a new nature reserve in 88,000 ha of wetland.
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