public health emergency
Delhi's Air Quality Crisis: AQI Reaches Severe Levels as Thick Smog Engulfs Capital
Dec 14, 2025 09:24 am CST
Delhi faces a critical public health emergency as air quality plummets to severe levels with an AQI of 462. All 40 monitoring stations across the capital show dangerous pollution levels, prompting authorities to implement GRAP-4 restrictions. Health experts warn of immediate risks as visibility drops and PM2.5 becomes the primary pollutant affecting residents across the metropolis.
Delhi High Court to Hear Critical Petition Addressing Life-Threatening Air Pollution Crisis in National Capital
Dec 02, 2025 11:17 pm CST
The Delhi High Court will hear an urgent petition filed by the Greater Kailash-II Welfare Association seeking immediate and effective measures to combat dangerous air pollution levels in Delhi. The case highlights the city's deteriorating air quality that frequently reaches hazardous levels, causing serious health issues among residents while authorities allegedly respond with delayed and inadequate actions despite expert warnings of life-threatening conditions.
Critical Gap: Less Than 1% of Climate Funding Allocated to Health Systems Despite Projected 15.6 Million Deaths by 2050
Nov 08, 2025 10:06 pm CST
A new report by Adelphi reveals that only 0.5% of multilateral climate funding has been directed toward adapting health systems to climate change since 2004, despite projections that climate change could cause up to 15.6 million deaths by 2050. With COP30 approaching, the report highlights an urgent need to bridge the gap between climate finance and health priorities, especially for vulnerable regions like South Asia, which receives no country-specific health adaptation funding despite facing 18% of projected climate-related health impacts.
Global Climate Crisis: Heat-Related Deaths Reach 550,000 Annually as Temperatures Soar Worldwide
Oct 29, 2025 11:44 am CST
A comprehensive Lancet report reveals that heat-related deaths have reached approximately 550,000 annually worldwide, increasing by 20% since the 1990s. Researchers warn of approaching "physiological tipping points" as climate change accelerates, causing $1 trillion in economic losses and expanding disease transmission zones, with most heatwave conditions of recent years directly attributable to human-caused climate change.