Here is yet another reason to check the rising pollution levels in the city: a survey has revealed that four out of five doctors say environmental pollution is the biggest cause of asthma. On World A ...More

Delhi’s air is dirty not just because of trucks, cars industries and dust-laden winds but also because of your neighbourhood tandoor. Biomass burning – which includes burning leaves, agricultural ref ...More

Improvement in Delhi’s air quality during the odd-even restriction was overshadowed by forest fires and agricultural stubble burning in the neighbouring states, the Centre for Science and Environment ...More

New Delhi: The odd-even road rationing scheme, which was implemented for the second time in Delhi in the second half of April, saw pollution levels declining initially, but rising from 23 April onward ...More

New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) India has witnessed a huge rise in asthma in the past decade, especially among children, due to a spike in environmental pollution, experts have said. Asthma is a chronic re ...More

With Asthma becoming one of the most common respiratory diseases in the world, a campaign to raise awareness about increasing air pollution was launched here on Monday. During the two-week-long 'Save ...More

With a steady rise in the air pollution in Bengaluru due to the overwhelming number of vehicles on the streets, the need for eco-friendly transport has only increased. Public transport (especially ...More

A plume of dust rises up from a house under construction as a steady breeze blows. Construction workers at the site and passersby break into a fit of coughs. The latter hurriedly walk away. The scene ...More

The Supreme Court order passed on Saturday banning all non-CNG cabs from the NCR is not Delhi’s first brush with such a mass conversion of diesel and petrol vehicles to the more environment-friendly f ...More

‘Licensed’ drivers in Delhi run amok like a pack of scavenging hyenas. They trample on the rights of others, bare their fangs at anyone crossing their path and feel no remorse whatsoever for their act ...More

Gurgaon: At a time when the Supreme Court order is forcing non-CNG cabs to go off Delhi and NCR roads, around 15,000 diesel autos continue to operate in Gurgaon. According to the apex court order, all ...More

Mexico City officials issued a new air pollution alert, meaning that 40 per cent of vehicles will be banned today, while industries will be required to cut emissions. Smog in the megacity of more than ...More

Air pollution has been linked to an increased prevalence of diabetes, say doctors. Dangerously high levels of pollution can also cause cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses. “Thus, it is important ...More

Health Minister Satyendar Jain Monday said air pollution had taken “centrestage” in the capital over the last year, and has been introduced in public debate and conversation. He added that the debate ...More

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has proposed to set up ambient air quality monitoring systems in cities with the help of public sector undertakings, the government said today. "CPCB has ...More

Delhi is the most polluted city in the world according to recent WHO report. Classified as the world’s fifth megacity, it has a population of 25.8 million, which continues to grow. With this growth, a ...More

The Union government will appeal to the Supreme Court to reconsider the ban on diesel vehicles in the national capital region (NCR). The decision was taken after a meeting attended by Road Transport a ...More

AS THE curtains come down on round two of the odd-even road space rationing scheme, the Delhi government is in a quandary. While it ponders whether it should implement the scheme through the year or s ...More

Air pollution levels in Delhi rose 23 per cent during the second phase of the odd-even registration rule, from April 15 to April 29, over the previous 14 days (April 1 to April 14), based on an analys ...More

New Delhi, May 1 (PTI) A day after the Odd Even rule came to an end and the ban on diesel-run cabs came into effect in Delhi, environmental activist SunitaNarain said that these measures were not enou ...More