It’s that time of the year. Time to look forward to misty mornings, early evenings, festivities, food, celebrations, holidays. And by the end of it, a littered cityscape, a dirtier river, and stubborn ...More

Remember smog that engulfed the entire Delhi during last witner? Air pollution has reached an alarming rate. In metropolitan cities where there is more vehicles and less of trees, air pollution is inc ...More

Pulling up Power Distribution Companies in Delhi for flouting E-waste rules, a Parliamentary panel has suggested that pollution monitoring agency should inspect the premises of power distributio ...More

Varanasi: Toxic particulate pollution in this holy city, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi represents in parliament and intends to make a Smart City like Kyoto in Japan, has resulted in an eight-fold ...More

It is now a fact that one of the major reasons for polluted air in Delhi is stubble burning in the neighbouring states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The NGT has taken a serious note ...More

New Delhi, Sep 19 The Delhi High Court today reserved its order on a PIL initiated by it on the issue of rising air pollution in Delhi and the neighbouring states. A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat ...More

The apex pollution regulator has framed standards for sulphur and nitrate oxides for 16 industries that use inferior quality fuel that releases these pollutants. The standards are yet to approved by ...More

Gurugram: The environmentalists have objected to a dump site on the Gurgaon-Faridabad border which is polluting the Aravalis taking over at least two acres of seasonal Ghata lake but this concern fell ...More

CHENNAI: After years of struggle by local residents, Tambaram Municipality has finally planned to clear the Kannadapalayam dumpyard using the biomining method. The civic body has switched to the new t ...More

Three states abutting the national capital had last year promised to stop burning agricultural waste in the wake of public uproar and a severe rap from the green court. That promise appears set to go ...More

Air Pollution Institute of Research will begin with collecting data to link pollution to diseases Alarmed by the growing negative impact of increasing air pollution on public health, eight of the cou ...More

New Delhi: To have a cleaner and safer environment, top medical experts, with different specialities across the country, came together on Saturday, for an inaugural meeting, to form a body known as Ai ...More

New Delhi, Sep 17 (PTI) The use of sulphur-heavy fuel, a major source of air pollution, such as furnace oil (FO) and pet coke in industries operating across the country will finally be regulated, star ...More

GURUGRAM: Over 50% of the city's diesel autos should go off the roads, after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday rejected the Centre's plea seeking modification of its ban on diesel vehicles ...More

The National Green Tribunal on Thursday refused to lift its order banning diesel vehicles more than 10 years old in the National Capital Region. A bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar turned down a ...More

Plastic microparticles are finding their way into our drinking water. We already knew tiny pieces of plastic find their way into seawater where they can be eaten by marine animals and so end up in hum ...More

The National Green Tribunal on Thursday dismissed the Union government’s plea asking for modification in its order banning 10-year-old diesel vehicles in Delhi-NCR. The green court, which was hearing ...More

According to a report by the Air Quality-Life Index (AQLI), India can improve the life quality and life expectancy of a majority of its population just by reducing the air pollution complying to the s ...More

Climate change, if left unaddressed, is expected to increase air pollution-related deaths by nearly 60,000 in 2030 and 2,60,000 in 2100 globally, a study has claimed. According to the study, hotter t ...More

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today took the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to task for not conducting any study on the harmful effects of materials used in the manufacture of fire crackers des ...More