Monitoring of air pollution on-the-spot, which was started at 74 monitoring stations during the second phase of the odd-even scheme, will continue for another week. Sources said the Delhi Pollution Co ...More

Gurgaon: A group of doctors will take to the streets to spread awareness about the harm caused by pollution on Monday. They will also launch a CNG bus "Clean Air Express," on the occasion. The bus ...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

WASHINGTON: An oil and natural gas field in the western United States is largely responsible for a global uptick of the air pollutant ethane, according to a new study. The team led by researchers a ...More

New Delhi: If you thought moving out of metro cities like Delhi and Mumbai can save you from pollution, think again. India’s 41 tier-II cities, including Tezpur, Rishikesh, Vapi, Angul, Sangrur and Ga ...More

Thus, ozone levels shot up to the highest during the odd even scheme so far on Sunday, according to ministry of earth sciences’ SAFAR, peaking around 75 parts per billion or 150 micrograms per cubic m ...More

NEW DELHI: Delhi may be the dirtiest city in terms of high air pollution but the dubious distinction of being the noisiest city goes to Mumbai which reported the maximumviolation of safe noise levels ...More

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has lambasted civic bodies in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh over the worsening air quality and high noise levels near the Kaushambi bus terminus on the Delhi border. ...More

Delhi may be the dirtiest city in terms of high air pollution but the dubious distinction of being the noisiest city goes to Mumbai which had reported maximum violations of the safety mark of noise le ...More

A little over a week since it started, the second phase of Delhi's odd even formula for private cars has lost steam already. There has been little impact on the toxic air pollution levels of the city ...More

Air pollution woes in Delhi and other Indian cities stubbornly refuse to go away. A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report says an estimated 12.6 million or (1.26 crore) people are dying each year ...More

MANGALURU: It is important to create environmental awareness at a young and impressionable age. Hence schools and colleges should take special interest in creating environment awareness by making chil ...More

Citing an expert committee report on fuels, the State government recently told the Gujarat High Court that CNG would prove to be more harmful to the environment than diesel ‘as CNG engines emit more g ...More

No clear pattern emerged out of the pollution data collected so far at Delhi’s borders, leaving doubts about odd-even’s impact on air pollution at Delhi’s exit points. The government started monitori ...More

Nine days of odd-even hasn’t made much of a headway in cleaning up Delhi’s toxic air with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) data, released on Saturday, showing that the Capital continued to vi ...More

This Earth Day - April 22 - is special, not only because over one billion people would join hands to tackle higher carbon emission and land erosion, but also because for the first time 120 countries a ...More

Ghaziabad: The NGT on Thursday issued a show-cause notice to the Ghaziabad district administration and the municipal authorities over alarming levels of pollution in the town. The tribunal asked wh ...More

There is no data to suggest that the odd-even scheme has brought down vehicular pollution in Delhi, the Central Pollution Control Board told the national green tribunal on Thursday. The country’s mai ...More

Gurgaon: There has been a slight decrease in levels of nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide in Gurgaon's atmosphere in the past 10 days. According to data released by HSPCB (Haryana State Pollution ...More

As the world gets prepared to build smart cities, new research led by an Indian-origin scientist has highlighted the dangerous effects of indoor pollution on human health and has called for policies t ...More