NEW DELHI: Air inside our homes may be as polluted as outside and there is need to monitor its quality to take remedial measures, says a new study. Cooking residues, chemicals and various microbes ...More

The air we breathe indoors is more harmful: research As the world gets prepared to build smart cities, a new research has highlighted the dangerous effects of indoor pollution on human health and has ...More

In Delhi, everyone knows we have a pollution problem. Citizens who weren't aware of it before the AAP government's odd-even traffic scheme, are definitely aware of it now. But if you ask the average ...More

Air pollution has reduced in east China in the first quarter of this year as compared to the same period during the previous year, but is now moving towards the west of the country, according to a Gre ...More

New Delhi: The courts have an interesting day ahead of them. The Supreme Court will hear the environment case regarding green cess for trucks entering Delhi and call drop penalty issue, both of which ...More

The quality of Delhi’s air deteriorated on Tuesday with PM 2.5 levels shooting up on the fifth day of the odd-even car restriction, shows an analysis by The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri). Ter ...More

NEW DELHI: National Green Tribunal asked the Central Pollution Control Board to monitor and record the data of ambient air quality in Delhi during the ongoing second phase of the odd-even scheme. A b ...More

Piles of leaf and garbage are burnt with impunity in Delhi’s parks and landfills, filling the air with foul smoke containing dangerous levels of carcinogens and carbon dioxide that is blamed for stoki ...More

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday asked the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to independently monitor and record the data of ambient air quality in Delhi during the ongoing second pha ...More

The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) on Monday said initial trends showed odd even will have a positive impact on the Capital’s air quality. Concrete assessment, however, will be made after s ...More

In its continuing effort to cut pollution in Delhi, the local government has introduced the second round of the Odd-Even scheme, where odd numbered cars (non-CNG, non-taxi) run on odd numbered days, ...More

As the odd-even scheme's second phase faced a stern test on Monday, critics and skeptics of the scheme have once again pointed that the focus of the initiative has shifted from reducing pollution to d ...More

Gurgaon: The second phase of the odd-even scheme in Delhi has had little effect on the pollution levels in Gurgaon, shows an analysis of data released by the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSP ...More

Experts blame the drop in wind speed for no noticeable reduction in particulate matter NEW DELHI, APRIL 18: Three days after the latest round of the odd-even scheme in the National Capital have no ...More

Pana Education Trust, Mangaluru, has organised “Good Air Campaign” for Mangaluru schools to mark the World Earth Day celebrations on April 22 on its campus, behind Mangaluru International Airport. Th ...More

The second phase of the road-rationing scheme faces its big test Monday but results from Saturday, the day two of the plan, are far from encouraging. Air pollution not only spiked across Delhi on Apr ...More

An environmental scientist has moved the National Green Tribunal, seeking independent monitoring of air pollution levels by agencies other than the state and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) ...More

Having kept their promises made in AamAadmi Party's election manifesto, such as installing 15 lakh CCTV cameras, building 2 lakh toilets, constructing 500 new schools, making Wi-Fi freely available in ...More

Thiruvananthapuram: For the first time, an authentic study report has come out indicating that air quality in the capital city is not satisfactory. As per the study conducted by state pollution contro ...More

To reduce air pollution in the capital, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has suggested an alternative scheme to odd-even — ‘last-digit automobile rationing’ scheme — to the Delhi governmen ...More