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By 2025, breathing clean air in India was no longer taken for granted. As toxic air seeped into everyday life, ordinary citizens parents, neighbours, lawyers, and students began pushing back. From courtrooms to classrooms and city streets, people challenged the idea that pollution was inevitable, asserting instead that clean air is a basic public health need and a constitutional right worth fighting for.

When a building makes people tired, uncomfortable, or unwell, the issue is often not personal health but the space itself. This piece breaks down Sick Building Syndrome through air quality, design, and lived experience.

2025 brought 63 powerful volcanic eruptions that raised SO2 output, worsened air quality, and disrupted communities worldwide. From Semeru to Kīlauea, major events drove hazardous PM2.5 spikes, ashfall, and regional vog, while improved monitoring and emergency plans helped protect lives amid the year’s intense global activity.

Air quality is not an engineering afterthought but a design outcome. This article explores how architectural choices, materials, indoor–outdoor interactions, and governance shape breathable spaces, health equity, and truly sustainable buildings.

Air quality has a powerful and often hidden influence on how people shop, invest, travel, and behave. By affecting emotions, health, and risk perception, pollution shifts consumption patterns across industries from healthcare and real estate to online shopping and green products. Understanding these impacts helps businesses and policymakers build a more resilient, consumer-focused future.

Indoor air isn’t always safer. This blog explores why PM2.5 often rises higher indoors than outdoors, uncovering hidden sources, infiltration patterns, and simple ways to cut daily exposure.

Air pollution causes harm beyond our lungs; it clouds our minds and corrodes our sense of well-being. Across cities like Delhi and Bengaluru, studies show how dirty air builds up stress, depression, and social disconnection. From brain inflammation to broken social ties, polluted air is reshaping urban life and well-being. This blog uncovers the link between air quality and mental health and explains how cleaner air leads to healthier minds.

Greenwashing can make products or initiatives appear greener than they really are. This blog explores common tactics, real-world examples, and how transparent data like air quality reports and sustainability metrics can help you distinguish genuine environmental action from mere buzzwords.

Discover how data-driven techniques can transform your eco-friendly lifestyle. Learn to track, measure, and optimize your environmental impact using smart tools, apps, and analytics for sustainable living.

From the surprise discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole to worldwide action towards recovery, this blog follows the science, international action, and personal measures that preserve our planet's protective shield and provide cleaner air for everyone.

Discover why air quality monitoring is critical for India’s clean air future. Explore current challenges, innovative solutions, and data-driven strategies.

From lush farms to your morning brew, coffee has a hidden environmental cost. This piece explores how coffee production impacts air quality, drives deforestation, and fuels carbon emissions and what sustainable choices can help reduce its footprint.

“Every cup of coffee, every email sent, even your morning shower, they all leave behind a carbon trail.”   Carbon footprint is defined as...

Summary Rain is often connected with renewal, growth, and, importantly, cleansing. The concept of cleansing becomes quite literal in the...

Summary Air pollution isn’t just harming our lungs; it’s also silencing nature. From the scents flowers release to attract pollinators to...

Summary When temperatures soar, so does the pollution risk. Heatwaves do more than elevate temperatures; they significantly increase...

Summary When we discuss car pollution, exhaust fumes often take the center stage. However, tire wear presents a hidden threat that we...

TL: DR Earlier this year, the U.S. State Department stopped sharing real-time air quality data from its embassies and consulates in over...

When we think of climate pollutants, CO₂ usually takes center stage. But there’s another major player that often flies under the radar:...

Have you ever wondered how cities can tackle air pollution before it becomes a crisis? That’s where urban computing comes in. It uses...