NEW DELHI: In order to deal with 'construction waste', a key source of air pollution in cities including the national Capital, the government's draft rules on solid waste management make it mandatory ...More

KOCHI, JULY 1: India and China suffer over $1.89 trillion annually in terms of the value of lives lost and ill health caused from air pollution, according to a report. Quoting OECD estimates, a ...More

Kochi: India and China suffer over US $1.89 trillion annually in terms of the value of lives lost and ill health caused from air pollution, according to a report. Quoting OECD estimates, a new study ...More

India and China suffer over $1.89 trillion annually in terms of the value of lives lost and ill health caused from air pollution, according to a report. Quoting OECD estimates, a new study published ...More

Following repeated complaints of air pollution and consequent breathing and other health problems from residents staying close to the dumping grounds of the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporatio ...More

Successive Delhi governments have not been serious about improving the notoriously bad quality of air that people breathe in the national capital. As pollution gradually peaked to alarming levels, gov ...More

The Delhi government, in the last seven years, collected Rs 385 crore to fund its war on air pollution, but around 87% of this money has remained unspent, a planning department report has said. Succe ...More

AGRA: In a shocking accident, more than a dozen nilgais, Asia's largest antelope, were mowed down by a speeding Kasganj-Farrukhabad passenger train near Kampil jungle, about 148 km from Agra. The anim ...More

NEW DELHI: Even as India is making headlines with its rising air pollution levels, the water in the country may not be any better. An alarming 80% of India's surface water is polluted, a latest assess ...More

VISAKHAPATNAM: A large number of people residing in the neighbourhood of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited's Visakh Refinery (HPCL-VR) have expressed concern over the pollution caused by state-r ...More

NEW DELHI: Delhi's air pollution levels are among the worst in the world but new research is pointing at something even more worrying. A government agency that recently started monitoring the most dan ...More

Delhi has been termed the most polluted city. The key source of pollution is the number of cars, which is increasing every year. As per the latest Economic Survey, Delhi has seen an increase of 6.3% i ...More

LONDON: A new study has suggested that climate change can possibly erase 50 years of health advancements. University College London's Anthony Costello said that climate change has the potential to ...More

New Delhi: The quality of air in China is twice as bad as in India, a World Bank report said, adding India’s air quality is also better than that of Pakistan and Nepal. The report comes in the wake of ...More

The effects of climate change are being felt on Wednesday, and future projections represent an unacceptably high and potentially catastrophic risk to human health, warns a new study published in The L ...More

MUMBAI: A recent study on threat to human health from climate change, could have special relevance for countries like India which battle with extreme weather patterns. The analysis published in th ...More

In May 2015, the ministry of environment, forests and climate change pro posed rules to curb air pollution from coal-fired power plants. At first glance, the draft notification may seem like a breath ...More

Cold water or iced juices appear tempting in the sweltering heat but it often comes contaminated with bacteria, viruses, minerals and heavy metals, which not only cause gastro-intestinal trouble but a ...More

WASHINGTON: Failure to act on climate change could cause an estimated 57,000 deaths a year in the United States from poor air quality by 2100, the Obama administration argued in a report released Mo ...More

Paris air is about five times lesser toxic than what it is in Delhi yet the authorities in the French Capital have a better plan to deal with the problem. By 2020, Paris will have no diesel car run ...More