BRUSSELS: Air pollution, chiefly from coal-fired power plants, cost society up to 189 billion euros ($235 billion) in 2012 - equal to the gross domestic product of Finland, the European Environment ...More

Air pollution has dropped in Bengaluru, thanks to some good rainfall recently, officials in the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) say. But the air is still dirty beyond permissible limit ...More

Hyderabad: Emptying Hussainsagar would expose residents to unbearable stench and the consequences would be tragic. M. Veda Kumar, the president of Forum For Better Hyderabad, said, “Dr Kodarkar’s s ...More

While the strengthening of the enforcement of existing PUC norms has been much needed for decades in Delhi, experts said it addresses only half the problem. While PUC norms are concerned with pollutio ...More

London has its congestion charge and emission-linked road tax, Singapore has electronic road pricing and Paris its unique even-and-odd registration plates to keep city air fit to breathe. What does ga ...More

LUCKNOW: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed the release of the national air quality index and health advisory by Prakash Javadekar, Union minister for environment and forests. An ai ...More

Nearly 100,000 premature deaths take place annually due to air pollution in India and some other countries which can be avoided by 2030 by improving energy efficiency measures in transport and industr ...More

Budding ornithologists should head to the Bhigwan–Bhuleshwar Flamingo watch, to spot the fascinating feathered creatures as they announce their arrival around the city. Recently, a small town around ...More

LONDON: Obesity is costing the world more than almost as much as smoking or terrorism and war. The epidemic — one-third of the world's population is overweight or obese in 2013, is costing Britain ...More

BEIJING: China aims to cap its annual coal use at 4.2 billion tonnes by 2020, it said Wednesday, a one-sixth increase on current consumption, already by far the world's largest. The announcement b ...More

NGT tells government that more needs to be done to safeguard environment With air pollution choking Delhi, making it one of the most polluted cities in the world, the National Green Tribunal on Monda ...More

NGT tells government that more needs to be done to safeguard environment With air pollution choking Delhi, making it one of the most polluted cities in the world, the National Green Tribunal on Monda ...More

Air pollution may raise the risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD), a new study indicates. After taking into account patient risk factors including age, diabetes and hypertension, the invest ...More

A recent survey by two private firms has shown that indoor air pollution too is a matter of concern in the City, along with outdoor pollution and its hazards. However, the Karnataka State Pollutio ...More

Hyderabad: After the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, and the formation of the separate Pollution Control Board, Hyderabad and its surrounding areas have become more prone to the pollution. This is ...More

BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB) on Friday revealed that 18 hundred-bed hospitals in the city had not set up mandatory effluent treatment plants (ETP) or sewerage treatmen ...More

GENEVA: The World Health Organization on Wednesday announced its first-ever guidelines for indoor air pollution related to cooking, heating and lighting, a problem estimated to kill more than four m ...More

KOLKATA : If current trends of vehicle population, fuel and emission standards persist, PM 2.5 emissions will increase by a factor of three, and those of NOx will increase by a factor of five, warns ...More

All the sky-clearing measures and cooperation from the weather kept Beijing relatively air pollution-free for most of a seven-day Asia-Pacific conference. Then, toward the end as top leaders met, the ...More

According to World Health Organisation, India is ranked among the world’s worst for its air pollution, with 13 out of 20 most polluted cities of the world in India alone. And due to the increasing lev ...More