CHENNAI: The Society for Automotive Fitness & Environment (SAFE), an initiative by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), is scheduled to mark the World Environment Day across 5,500 au ...More

Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation ( NMC ) has decided to commence mass tree plantation drive from July 1 instead of August 1. Target is to plant around 40,000 saplings and 2-3 years old plants. ...More

PATNA: Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED) in collaboration with 'India Spend' has installed the air quality monitoring devices in the state capital. In total there are about 45 devic ...More

According to new WHO figures, 16 of the world's 30 most polluted cities are in India. Further, levels are growing of ultra-fine particles of less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5s), which can penetrate deep in ...More

According to new WHO figures, 16 of the world's 30 most polluted cities are in India. Further, levels are growing of ultra-fine particles of less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5s), which can penetrate deep in ...More

According to new WHO figures, 16 of the world's 30 most polluted cities are in India. Further, levels are growing of ultra-fine particles of less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5s), which can penetrate deep ...More

AHMEDABAD, JUNE 3: While the world observes Environment Day on Sunday (June 5), India is emerging as one of the world's major electronic waste generators, posing grave concerns to public health and ...More

New Delhi, June 2 (ANI-NewsVoir): According to new WHO figures, 16 of the world's 30 most polluted cities are in India. Further, levels are growing of ultra-fine particles of less than 2.5 microns (PM ...More

As the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC), lifts the six-year-old moratorium imposed under the Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI), Maharashtra Pollution Board ...More

BEIJING: Exposure to air pollutants arising from coal burning, vehicle exhaust, airborne dust and dirt can increase the risk of developing high blood pressure, warns a new study. High blood pressur ...More

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday asked officials to apprise it about the illegal industries that were sealed in PrahladpurBangar area of north-west Delhi for causing pollution. The tri ...More

A new study has found that short and long term exposures to air pollutants are linked with high blood pressure. Lead researcher Tao Liu, Ph.D., deputy director and epidemiologist of the environmental ...More

Beijing: Exposure to air pollutants commonly associated with coal burning, vehicle exhaust, airborne dust and dirt may increase the risk of developing high blood pressure, a new study has warned. "In ...More

Ahmedabad: The steady rise in particulate matter pollution over permissible limits has forced Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), the district collectorate and Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB ...More

New Delhi: A Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) report on air quality in 15 cities shows that most cities are breaching the national annual safe standard. While some are seeing a rising trend a ...More

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday gave all states three weeks to prepare and present a report on pollution levels in their worst-affected cities. A bench headed by Chairperson Swat ...More

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday said it was not planning to extend the ban on diesel luxury vehicles (more than 2000 cc) to more cities immediately. It will first examine air p ...More

In his 1991 budget speech, finance minister Manmohan Singh made an emphatic declaration: “We cannot deforest our way to prosperity and we cannot pollute our way to prosperity”. These were prescient wo ...More

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday said it was not planning to immediately extend the ban on diesel luxury vehicles (with an engine capacity of over 2000 cc) to more cities. The b ...More

Even as local BJP leaders continue to extend support to the traders against a no-vehicle zone around the Golden Temple, many city-based NGOs have unanimously favoured the government’s move. A delegat ...More