Delhi Police Crackdown on Largest Air Pollution Protest since Pandemic

10/11/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji

DELHI, India – The Delhi police detained nearly 100 people Sunday evening in a protest against high levels of air pollution in India’s capital – which has consistently ranked as the biggest pollution hot spot in the world over the past month. The protest, one of the largest since the COVID pandemic and coincided with […] Continue reading ->

Air Pollution-Related Dementia Kills Over 625,000 People A Year

23/10/2025 Chetan Bhattacharji

From killing over 600,000 elderly from dementia to an almost equal number of infants under the age of one-year, air pollution’s impact on young and old is explained simply through hard-hitting numbers in the latest State of Global Air (SOGA) report, by the Boston-based Health Effects Institute. The report identifies plenty of scope for immediate […] Continue reading ->

Global Life Expectancy Sees Post-COVID Rebound – But Deaths Among Youths In North America and Latin America Rise

13/10/2025 Elaine Ruth Fletcher

BERLIN – Global life expectancy rose again in 2023 after a decline during the COVID pandemic with overall life expectancy 20 years higher as compared to 1950. But North America and Latin America are seeing higher death rates among adolescents and young adults due to a crisis in mental health – reflected in higher rates […] Continue reading ->

Tobacco Use is Waning, But 100M People Now Use New Nicotine Products

06/10/2025 Kerry Cullinan

There has been a significant global reduction in smoking, but use remains stubbornly high in some countries and groups – while the tobacco industry is aggressively marketing new nicotine products to young people. This is according to the World Health Organization (WHO) tobacco trends report, which was released on Monday. “In 2000, one in three adults […] Continue reading ->