The Delhi government will need at least a month to prepare before the odd-even vehicle rationing scheme can be introduced under a Supreme Court directive to curb pollution in the capital, officials sa ...More

The Delhi High Court today gave directions and suggestions like on the spot challaning and using of helicopters, with regard to managing the "chaotic" traffic condition in the city, alleviate problems ...More

Ghaziabad: Just about a dozen car owners decided to leave their vehicles back home during the second car-free day held in Ghaziabad on Thursday. The RWA federation of Ghaziabad, which conducted the ev ...More

Air is the ultimate democratiser, affecting each one of us, rich or poor, old or young, Indian or from any other nationality. Unlike water, we cannot carry bottles of purified air. The air we breathe ...More

The Delhi government Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that it was looking into the process of “phasing out” and replacing old “outlived” trees. During the same hearing, it submitted a report fr ...More

Levels of air pollution, including harmful particulate matter, are higher in and around the floodplains of the Yamuna, which should ideally be home to rich eco-systems. The Yamuna floodplains are at ...More

Levels of air pollution, including harmful particulate matter , are higher in and around the floodplains of the Yamuna, which should ideally be home to rich eco-systems. The Yamuna floodplains are at ...More

The PM 10 (Particulate Matter of 10 micrometers or less in diameter) values in three cities – Visakhapatnam, Chennai and Coimbatore – complies with the NAAQS (National Ambient Air Quality Standard) of ...More

With 15 “very poor” and 13 “poor” days, air pollution levels continued to be high in February despite the spike in temperature, according to a monthly analysis report by the Central Pollution Control ...More

With 15 “very poor” and 13 “poor” days, air pollution levels continued to be high in February despite the spike in temperature, according to a monthly analysis report by the Central Pollution Control ...More

With 15 “very poor” and 13 “poor” days, air pollution levels continued to be high in February despite the spike in temperature, according to a monthly analysis report by the Central Pollution Control ...More

New Delhi: The centre has exempted 36 non-polluting industries, termed white industries, such as solar and wind power plants, from green clearance. “The new category of white industries, which is pra ...More

Kochi: The Ernakulam RTO authorities have issued stop memos to 40 pollution testing centres for violating norms while checking vehicle pollution. Authorities said most of the centres issued certificat ...More

Air pollution has hit 180 of 338 Chinese cities with 42 of them, including Beijing and Tianjin, categorised as “heavily polluted,” the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) announced on Saturday. ...More

Xu Jiankang, a member of the CPPCC National Committee, proposed the imposition of a "smog tax" on gasoline to encourage the use of new-energy vehicles. Heavily polluted smog returned to haunt China o ...More

BEIJING: Greenpeace East Asia said on Wednesday that China had a total of 210 coal power projects in the pipeline for environmental assessment permitting at the end of 2015, despite overcapacity in th ...More

The National Green Tribunal has issued notices to as many as 13 cement companies on a petition alleging that they were violating its orders and environmental norms as well as the provisions of the Mot ...More

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday issued notices to thirteen cement companies over gross violation of its orders, environmental norms and provisions of Motor Vehicles Act for causing air po ...More

NEW DELHI: National Green Tribunal on Tuesday issued notices to 13 cement manufacturers in Delhi and the rest of NCR for allegedly violating its order on overloading of vehicles. It also pulled up the ...More

New Delhi: Starting Friday, vacuum cleaning will start on the Capital’s roads along with green makeover for the bald patches in an attempt to fight the menace of dust. According to a Delhi PWD offici ...More