The two countries already suffer from high levels of air pollution. In 2019 alone, around 1.4 million premature deaths in China and around 1.7 million premature deaths in India were attributable ...

India, always hot, has been getting hotter. The past decade was the warmest on record. Yet it has not been warming as quickly ...

Economic losses were in the billions. Pollution takes many forms in India, including the use of poorly-ventilated stoves and open fires for cooking inside dwellings. Photo by Mark Katzman. Air ...

In 2021, air pollution was a major global killer, contributing to 8.1 million deaths worldwide. India and China bore the brunt of this crisis, with staggering death tolls of 2.1 million and 2.3 ...

North India experiences severe pollution every winter as temperatures drop and cold air traps emissions, construction dust, and smoke from farm fires set off illegally in the agricultural states ...

In these months, temperatures on the Indo-Gangetic plain—the area that spreads from eastern Pakistan, across North India and ...

Air pollution consisting of particles smaller than 2.5 micrometres in diameter, PM2.5, can enter the lungs and bloodstream and is a major health risk in India. Researchers have now examined the ...

The nexus between climate change and air pollution represents an area in which the U.S. and China can create a host of benefits that should appeal to leaders and key constituencies. Air pollution and ...

More information: Jeroen de Bont et al, Synergistic associations of ambient air pollution and heat on daily mortality in India, Environment International (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109426 ...

India and Pakistan are losing ground to a common deadly enemy. Vast clouds of dense, toxic smog have once again shrouded metropolises in South Asia. Air pollution regularly spikes in November in ...

you might lower carbon and nitrogen oxide emissions but end up increasing the air pollution burden for communities near manufacturing centers.” While the analysis focused on China and India, the ...