Pollution and health: a progress update

Pollution and health: a progress update

Summary The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world’s largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuriaes, and Risk Factors Study 2019. We find […]

Health tips: Stay safe in the India, Pakistan heat wave | Science | In-depth reporting on science and technology | DW

Health tips: Stay safe in the India, Pakistan heat wave | Science | In-depth reporting on science and technology | DW

With temperatures reaching practically 50 degrees Celsius (122 levels Fahrenheit), India and Pakistan are observing the best heat waves in record. People today halt doing the job throughout the most popular several hours of the working day and schoolchildren are despatched house hrs early. Cattle are dying from heat exhaustion and dehydrated birds are slipping […]