NEW DELHI: Delhi's air pollution measures like introducing compressed natural gas, building the Metro and moving polluting industries outside city limits have been praised universally. But evidence ha ...More

NEW DELHI: Delhi's air pollution measures like introducing compressed natural gas, building the Metro and moving polluting industries outside city limits have been praised universally. But evidence ...More

PUNE: The central government is mulling a proposal where all vehicles in the country will have to undergo a stringent scrutiny for their roadworthiness every year. Expressing concern over the incre ...More

SURAT: The Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), Surat has issued immediate closure notices to 11 coal storage depots located in and around the city for violating air pollution guidelines. "These ...More

KOLKATA: Bengal has more than 27 highly polluted areas, including one in the heart of the city. An area in Picnic Garden, where used batteries are dumped, has been listed among the worst-affected plac ...More

KOLKATA: Bengal has more than 27 highly polluted areas, including one in the heart of the city. An area in Picnic Garden, where used batteries are dumped, has been listed among the worst-affected plac ...More

Vehicular traffic, garbage burning and construction dust are all the usual suspects contributing to air pollution in Indian cities. But did you know that in Chennai, around 5.4 per cent of the particu ...More

KOCHI: As part of St Teresa’s college’s Navathy celebrations, the Bhoomitra Sena students of the college are organising a tree plantation drive on Thursday. The students would plant 90 trees at Marine ...More

ALLAHABAD: Former director prof and head of medicine, MLN Medical College, Dr DK Nigam has recently returned after participating in the international RACP Congress 2014 on 'Future Directions in Heal ...More

An age-based norm for scrapping motor vehicles, something the automobile industry favours but to which truckers are opposed, is likely to get a new look from the government. The expert committee on Au ...More

BANGALORE: It is not just humans who face the ill-effects of vehicular pollution. A recent study has revealed that insects, especially bees and moths, get confused while looking for flowers because of ...More

At Vile Parle, a neighbour’s dog got the adjective “ferocious” and his hens “wild”, as they found themselves subject of a complaint to the office of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) environm ...More

Plastic waste causes an annual damage of USD 13 billion to the marine ecosystem, two UN reports have said and underlined the need of recycling and redesigning plastic products to bring multiple green ...More

NEW DELHI: There is an urgent need to improve fuel quality and implement stricter norms to check vehicular emissions and poor air quality in Indian cities, renowned environmentalist R.K. Pachauri said ...More

Trees planted in the green belt on the Ram Tirath road behind the Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) suffered damage in a fire on Friday, much to the distress of the protesting environment lovers. Th ...More

The tiny particles in vehicle exhaust and other sources of air pollution may hasten cognitive decline in older adults, according to a new US study. “We decided to examine the link between air pollut ...More

HYDERABAD: The reinvention of Charminar as a constituent of the new logo of Telangana may have given the monument a boost in terms of cultural brand value, but it has done little to clean up the fou ...More

A novel way of curbing health risks associated with air pollution could be consuming a broccoli sprout beverage. Researchers have found that daily consumption of half a cup of broccoli sprout bever ...More

It’s time policy mandarins take steps to clean up urban India’s air, learning from successes elsewhere In response to a recent question in the Rajya Sabha shortly before his government demitted offi ...More

(Don't) take a deep breath, brace yourself. The air we breathe is becoming more and more polluted and that too quite fast given the rising number of construction projects and vehicles on roads. The l ...More