After Gurgaon and Delhi, another city in the National Capital Region – Noida – is planning on observing a car-free day in an effort to raise awareness and reduce air pollution. Gurgaon had kicked off ...More

‘Black carbon, ozone, methane and carbon dioxide behind 2.4 million deaths a year’ NEW DELHI, OCT 23: Clamping down on four key climate pollutants -- black carbon, ozone, methane, carbon dioxide - ...More

MUMBAI: If the System of Air Quality and weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) data is anything to go by, Chembur is Mumbai's most polluted suburb. Data shows its air quality to be in the lowest, o ...More

A new WHO report has called for an urgent need to reduce emissions of black carbon, ozone and methane — as well as carbon dioxide — which all contribute to climate change. Frequently described as shor ...More

Delhi’s first car-free day hitched a ride on Dusshera holiday that saw a large number of vehicles staying off the road and the city, which has the dirtiest air in the world, recording a dramatic dip i ...More

CSE and Greenpeace India observed lower levels of air pollution on Thursday morning. Did Delhi’s attempt at a car-free day on Thursday improve its air quality? Probably, but not by as much as the gov ...More

Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar said in a statement here today that the 'Swachh Bharat' campaign cannot happen without the wholehearted participation of mun ...More

To ensure implementation of a comprehensive plan for prevention, control and abatement of air pollution, the Delhi government has made it mandatory for every petrol pump to have a Pollution Under Cont ...More

NEW DELHI: Taking note of its internal report which showed severe negligence on part of municipal bodies in managing solid waste, the central pollution watchdog has issued notices to civic authoriti ...More

A new app launched in London that uses sensors to monitor air quality can tell users when to stay indoors to avoid dangerous pollution levels. The app uses hourly data from sensors around London to m ...More

Agreed, diesel cars are cheaper, but they are not much cleaner than what they used to be a decade ago. There is a need to control the sale of diesel cars if pollution in India has to be checked. The G ...More

New Delhi: Creating a buffer of trees and shrubs around residential areas and along highways could mitigate dust pollution quite effectively, DU professor emeritus and ecologist C R Babu has recommend ...More

Greenpeace organised an event at the Dilli Haat here on Sunday to inform people about the need to protect them from air pollution and to gather people’s support. The event calls on the government to ...More

NAGPUR: Not the chirping of birds but it is the cacophony of hammering, drilling, stonecutting, loading and unloading and grinders to which residents of Ramdaspeth wake up. With a spurt in constructio ...More

NAGPUR: Not the chirping of birds but it is the cacophony of hammering, drilling, stonecutting, loading and unloading and grinders to which residents of Ramdaspeth wake up. With a spurt in constructio ...More

GURGAON: Inspired by Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, many residential societies in the city have decided to go cracker-free this Dussehra and Diwali. In Malibu Towne, a residential colony in Sector 48, Nava ...More

Each year, an adult on average catches viral infections two to three times a year. Young children get them more often, falling ill between four and six times a year, with symptoms in both young and ol ...More

BEIJING: Pollution in nearly 80 per cent of Chinese cities surveyed by Greenpeace "greatly exceeded" national standards over the first nine months of this year, the advocacy group said on Thursday. ...More

New Delhi: During an inter-departmental workshop on 'dust control measures to control air pollution' at the secretariat on Wednesday, experts recommended laying down construction project-specific air ...More

A workshop on ‘dust control measures to control air pollution’, held at the Delhi secretariat on Wednesday, pointed out the need of laying down construction project-specific air quality norms and sett ...More