Ten years ago, when Peter Smetacek walked in the forests surrounding Sattal, there were areas so thick with butterflies that they fanned his face. "Repeated fires in this area have wreaked havoc on it ...More

The parliamentary panel on environment and forests has asked the Centre and environment ministry to study the environmental impacts of tobacco cultivation and curing, which is the process of drying to ...More

NEW DELHI: Delhi is not the most polluted city in the world any more, according to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) urban air quality database released on Thursday. In fact, it now ranks 11th ...More

The National Green Tribunal on Monday asked the Delhi government as to why it was not emphasising on the issues of pollution from dust and waste burning the way it had stressed on the odd-even scheme. ...More

NEW DELHI: Wide fluctuation with no clear trend was observed in the air quality during odd-even scheme of Delhi government from January 1 to 15, according to the assessment ofCentral Pollution Control ...More

Vehicles older than 15 years will soon have to pay a “green tax” to ply on Jharkhand’s roads. The Jharkhand transport department is preparing a draft to tax old vehicles, commercial as well as privat ...More

With debates still raging over the odd-even scheme, ban on old cars, sale of new diesel SUVs and their impacts -- if any -- on the pollution level of Delhi, the Centre has firmly told Supreme Court th ...More

The Uttar Pradesh pollution control board (UPPCB) on Monday directed 20 polluting industrial units to shift from solid fuel to piped natural gas (PNG) in four months, else face action. These units, l ...More

NEW DELHI: With trucks and two-wheelers contributing to 79 per cent of vehicular traffic pollution in Delhi as compared to only 10 per cent by four-wheelers, a leading expert on air quality today said ...More

New Delhi: There seems to be no respite from high air, water and noise pollution levels in the national capital. The levels recorded in 2015 across the national capital by the Central Pollution Contro ...More

HYDERABAD: The Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) has been selected by the United States Department of State to organise a conference focused on implementing India's COP21 commitments to be h ...More

New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board's initiative to curb air pollution from brick kilns is "half-baked" and not likely to succeed, the CSE said on Monday. The Board ha ...More

New Delhi: India plans to shut aging coal-fired power plants with a combined capacity of 37 gigawatts to cut emissions and reduce the use of fuel and water. The plants are more than 25 years old and ...More

The odd-even experiment in January was the testing of a short-term managerial solution. As any experiment, it gave partial insights into the air pollution puzzle. It was also a test of Delhiites’ reso ...More

The benefits of walking and cycling outweigh the negative effects on health in cities like New Delhi with high levels of air pollution, says a study which found that cycling and regular physical activ ...More

Respiratory disease cases in Gujarat have been skyrocketing over the past few years. A recent report from the Union health ministry has shockingly revealed that in Gujarat, between 2013 and 2015, the ...More

NEW DELHI: The odd-even strategy is likely to reduce emission load by less than 1%, said the additional director of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Prashant Gargava, on Friday. To arriv ...More

Mumbai’s air was the cleanest since June 2015, when air quality monitoring and forecasting began, on Friday. Weather experts said strong winds and higher temperatures helped the dispersal of airborne ...More

Mumbai: We all remember watching those illustrations in our childhood days, depicting the future of our earth, where children are going to school with air masks. But little did we know that it will so ...More

The Uttarakhand transport department has issued 22 e-rickshaw permits as an effort to control noise and air pollution in Dehradun, but there is no scientific method to ascertain level of pollution add ...More