Your smart phones could soon help you combat a deadly form of air pollution, thanks to a new low-cost and reliable method of detecting nitrogen dioxide - a significant air pollutant, scientists say. ...More

NEW DELHI: Anti-cracker campaigns by the central and Delhi governments appeared to have made no significant impact as the capital celebrated another dirty Diwali, with fireworks well into the night, l ...More

LUCKNOW: Unlike last year, where level of noise pollution in Lucknow during Diwali had touched almost 100 decibels, this year, the average noise pollution level in the city (during the corresponding p ...More

Students of Alphores Educational Institutions took out a massive rally on Monday educating people to “say no to crackers and yes to earthen lamps” for Diwali. Students carrying placards and banners a ...More

Diwali celebration in the Arera Colony - one of the poshest settlements in Bhopal - appear to have gone a little out of hand with pollution levels in the locality found to be more than six times highe ...More

The national Capital’s notoriously poisonous air worsened on Diwali night with tonnes of fireworks going up in smoke, though the Delhi government claimed that the situation had improved marginally fro ...More

With air quality in Delhi hovering between severe and very poor levels in the past 10 days, and particulates consistently emerging as the prominent pollutants, the System of Air Quality and Weather Fo ...More

As a lethal combination of pollutants — from traffic emissions to particulates from the burning fields in Punjab and Haryana, as well as industrial effluents (and anything else I may have left out) — ...More

It is that week of the year. Public advisories have been issued. The city government has asked the legislators to persuade their electorate to not burst crackers. The message is loud and clear: Don’t ...More

Your smartphones could soon help you combat a deadly form of air pollution, thanks to a new low-cost and reliable method of detecting nitrogen dioxide - a significant air pollutant, scientists say. ...More

Twenty of 26 air quality monitoring stations across the country recorded “severe” air quality at midnight on Wednesday night, a level of pollution that India officially rates as its worst possible, an ...More

Air pollution in Delhi, which is already at levels harmful for health, is likely to worsen after Diwali. PM 2.5, minuscule particles that make the air hazy and can have an adverse effect on health, w ...More

The air you breathe will be heavily polluted this Diwali, a first-time air quality forecast for the city during the festive season revealed. Four areas — Chembur, Bhandup, Mazgaon and Nerul —have bee ...More

BHUBANESWAR: The BMC is celebrating the festival of lights in a unique manner this year. With the aim of keeping the festivities pollution-free and sensitizing denizens of the city towards environment ...More

CHENNAI: The rain gods might have played spoilsport with cracker-bursting fun during this Diwali, but the consequence is one that should make every environment-conscious denizen of the city happy. Amb ...More

New Delhi: A day after Diwali, the air pollution across Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Thursday morning was “severe” with nearly six times the average levels of deadly PM 2.5 (particul ...More

Kamlesh feeds the flames of a crude clay cookstove with kindling, kerosene and sunbaked discs of cow dung. She breathes in the billowing smoke, as she does for hours every day. Her eyes water and stin ...More

GANORA SHEIKH VILLAGE, India: Kamlesh feeds the flames of a crude clay cookstove with kindling, kerosene and sunbaked discs of cow dung. She breathes in the billowing smoke, as she does for hours ever ...More

MUMBAI: The city seems to have woken up to the noise and air pollution caused by crackers, as activists saw Mumbaikars observing a Diwali which could be one of the quietest in a decade. Environmentali ...More

It was a Diwali message with difference this time from President Pranab Mukherjee, who greeted people on the eve of the festival and urged them to celebrate "in a pollution free manner". In his messa ...More