Soaring pollution levels, crippling floods, quivering Richter notes to scores of environment laws awaiting implementation — this, in short, was India's environmental standing this year. As alarming a ...More

NEW DELHI: The draft IIT-Kanpur report on pollution in Delhi has triggered fresh alarm over the city's winter air quality as it has found "very high" levels of an extremely toxic group of 100 chemical ...More

Cars were partially banished from the streets of Milan and Rome on Monday as Italy battled a build-up of health-threatening pollution caused by freakishly dry and warm winter weather. As a row erupte ...More

KOLKATA: Environment activist Subhas Datta has written to the vice-chancellor of VisvaBharatiUniversity ,Santiniketan, and the West Bengal Pollution Control Board, drawing their attention to the huge ...More

Before the Delhi Government can pat itself for their odd-even formula, here is a statistical fact: Only 5.3 lakh cars can be kept off roads on any day. And that's a meagre 6.27 per cent. With the gov ...More

MUMBAI: The city may not ring in the New Year on a very good note as the air you breathe in the next few days is expected to be heavily polluted. According to a forecast by the System of Air Quality a ...More

ABOUT: With Delhi's air pollution reaching alarming proportions and most of the other major metros on the verge of hitting dangerous levels of air pollution, there's need for drastic action in the int ...More

BEIJING: Two of the world's largest technology firms, IBM and Microsoft, are vying to tap the nascent, fast-growing market for forecasting air quality in the world's top carbon emitters. Bouts of a ...More

The beginning of 2016 is expected to bring relief from air pollution for Delhi residents. The Met office predicted the air quality to be between “moderate to very poor” in the next few days — a small ...More

Cars were partially banished from the streets of Milan andRome today as Italy battled a buildup of health-threatening pollution caused by freakishly dry and warm winter weather. As a row erupted ov ...More

This year, the winter chill has also brought with it poor air quality. A recent study revealed the concentration of particulate matter 1 (PM1) – pollutant particles less than one microns that can get ...More

Delhi is gearing up for the odd-even scheme to check vehicular pollution, but road dust, burning of biomass and municipal solid waste, and industrial stacks contribute a far greater share of the city' ...More

GURGAON: Officials of the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) carried out a surprise inspection of four major authorised pollution check centres in the city on Monday and found three centres ...More

In an attempt to reduce noise pollution in the state, the Bihar Government has banned the use of all kinds of sirens. The vehicles of Governor and judges besides ambulance and fire brigade have been e ...More

The proposal from the AamAadmi Party (AAP) government to try the odd-even scheme for private car usage in Delhi, from January 1-15, has been a topic of intense debate. The scheme has been projected as ...More

Car owners still seem reluctant to embrace the odd-even scheme of the Delhi government to contain pollution despite only a few days left for the formula to start. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had s ...More

Mumbai has on Monday recorded a poorer quality of air than Delhi. The city recorded ‘poor’ air quality while a few of the city’s pockets recorded ‘very poor’ level. Andheri recorded 326 µg/m3 level o ...More

It was followed by Punjabi Bagh with an AQI of 346 with Pm 2.5 and RK Puram having an AQI of 333. The Mandir Marg area had an AQI of 316 with PM2.5. The capital's emergency experiment on the odd even ...More

Plan to incinerate it did not take off A plan is being worked out for the safe disposal of toxic waste lying at the defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, the gas leakage from where killed more tha ...More

The over-saturated Ghazipur landfill site in east Delhi is one of the biggest contributors to the alarming level of air pollution in the region. While the civic authorities constructed a waste-to-ener ...More