Coming to rescue of the residents of Lajpat Nagar here, the National Green Tribunal has directed South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) to take immediate steps to control air pollution in an area ...More

Even as Delhi emerges as the most polluted city in the world, the environment ministry is contemplating emergency measures to combat the rising air pollution levels in the Capital. Without elaboratin ...More

NEW DELHI: The NGT ban on more than 10-year-old diesel vehicles may further worsen the Centre-Delhi government relationship. Officials in the state government have confirmed to TOI they are willing to ...More

COIMBATORE: The district administration has received many complaints against several industries located in Chettipalayam near Podanur and Mettupalayam for polluting the environment. Tamil Nadu Pol ...More

They're the two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world — but the US and China have very different ideas about tackling the problem of climate change. In a new survey taken months before ...More

NEW DELHI: Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today criticised the previous UPAregime for the air pollution in Delhi, saying that the air quality had started worsening after 2007 and initiation of ...More

Extending much-needed relief to residents of Lajpat Nagar, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) to take immediate measures to control air pollu ...More

Combating Delhi’s toxic air is possible but it needs a strong political will to take a few bold decisions and make changes at the micro-level. It could start with decongesting the entire National Cap ...More

It may seem impossible to shed the tag of world’s most polluted capital, but Delhi can improve its air quality provided there is political will to initiate action against polluters and implement the D ...More

NEW DELHI: Gagandeep Singh Sapra and his wife Harpreet, both avid cyclists, used to cover 40km every day till about a year ago. Now they barely cycle 40km in a week—both have developed allergic asthma ...More

NEW DELHI: The Government plans to set up air quality monitoring stations, which are presently functional at 10 places, in more cities in the country. The air quality monitoring stations is also p ...More

NEW DELHI: The Government plans to set up air quality monitoring stations, which are presently functional at 10 places, in more cities in the country. The air quality monitoring stations is also p ...More

NEW DELHI: The Government plans to set up air quality monitoring stations, which are presently functional at 10 places, in more cities in the country. The air quality monitoring stations is also p ...More

China has scaled up air quality control in Beijing to bring down the city's pollution level significantly in a bid to win hosting rights for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Beijing announced on Wednes ...More

WASHINGTON: A new study has linked air pollution below EPA standards with higher death rates. Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over 65 are ...More

BENGALURU: Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) recommendations for the State Action Plan on Climate Change specifically focus on the need to move to an equitable, sustainable, low-carbon p ...More

BONN: In a boost for hopes to curb climate change, China's greenhouse gas emissions will probably peak in 2025, five years earlier than its stated target, a study said on Monday. On current trends ...More

NEW DELHI: Supported with the findings of a recent set of air pollution studies and analysis done by IIT-Delhi, Centre is set to put a strong case against the ban on 10 years old vehicles when it subm ...More

Here is a piece of startling information, in the form of a BBC report dated April 19, for candidates aspiring to be researchers in air pollution. “Saharan dust, traffic fumes, and smog from Europe ...More

For RituVerma, it's a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. The 34-year old homemaker in Rohini in northwest Delhi has been living with two equally unacceptable choices over the last 10 year ...More