NEW DELHI: As the city's air goes from bad to unbreathable, expats can talk about returning home, but for people heavily invested here—native-born Delhiites and others who have built up their careers ...More

NEW DELHI: Air pollution is the world's biggest environmental health risk, causing at least one in eight deaths around the globe, the World Health Organization has said. The assessment was reached ...More

BONN, Germany: Rising greenhouse gases have boosted rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa, easing droughts that killed 100,000 people in the 1970s and 1980s, in a rare positive effect of climate chan ...More

NEW DELHI: The air Beijing was inhaling a couple of years ago was as toxic as Delhi's, but the Chinese capital had managed the crisis quickly and effectively. Experts say China's strategies were strin ...More

Delhi's appalling air pollution problem might not have prompted the government to take stringent action, but it surely has set the alarm bells ringing amongst its expat community. Penning a piece on t ...More

NEW DELHI: Air pollution is the world's biggest environmental health risk, causing at least one in eight deaths around the globe, the World Health Organization has said. The assessment was reached ...More

Some call it “capital punishment” that kills slowly; others simply put it as air pollution — a lethal cocktail of toxic gases spewing from vehicle exhausts and factories mixed with dust and microscopi ...More

The New York Times’ South Asia correspondent Gardiner Harris’ piece on moving back to the US because of Delhi’s killer air pollution was one of the most widely read pieces on the web over the weekend, ...More

BENGALURU: If you are taking a joyride or getting a cab home after work at midnight, think twice before sliding down the car window and breathing in deeply. That cool, pleasant breeze is probably brin ...More

The sudden boom in diesel cars and trucks in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) has escalated the level of ozone gas in the air. Ozone, which forms an ultraviolet (UV) protection layer in upp ...More

NEW DELHI: There is something cyclical about the air pollution debate in Delhi - almost like the seasonal cycle of air pollution itself. When air pollution control slows down and the courts step in to ...More

NEW DELHI: A number of ministries as well as Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh governments have unanimously agreed that age should not be the criterion for phasing out of vehicles in NCR. Instead, they ...More

Alarmed over a report about poor ambient air quality inside its premises, Delhi high court on Thursday castigated its own concerned panel for not doing anything on the issue, saying it was “unacceptab ...More

Alarmed over a report about poor ambient air quality inside its premises, Delhi High Court today castigated its own concerned panel for not doing anything on the issue, saying it was "unacceptable" th ...More

What is poisoning Delhi's air and making India's capital the most polluted city in the world? The government has taken on the National Green Tribunal, contesting that old private vehicles plying in ...More

VADODARA: M S University's Faculty of Science in association with city-based Socleen, Indian Association for Air Pollution Control, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the Baroda chapter of the ...More

Putting air pollution on global priority, the World Health Organisation has adopted a resolution on health impacts of air pollution, and urged its member countries to implement its guidelines on air q ...More

Bengaluru: Ten-year-old Tanisha K, a resident of Vijayanagar in West Bengaluru, ends up in hospital every few weeks with breathing difficulties. She developed the problem a couple of years ago after s ...More

NEW DELHI: The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based think-tank on green issues, on Tuesday said the NDA government's record was not as bad as feared but there had been no major refo ...More

The Capital continues to choke even six months after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered a ban on all petrol and diesel vehicles over 15 years of age in Delhi-NCR. The ban was eventually stayed ...More