The silence within stunned them. As loudspeakers blare out the arrival of buses and vehicles honk their annoyance at the stop-and-go traffic, the East Fort area possibly records the worst levels of ...More

With pollution levels rising, it is heartening to note activists agitating for clean air in their localities We are what we breathe. Every individual has the right to breathe fresh air. As India ...More

LONDON: Air pollution in China and other Asian countries is generating sweeping impact on weather patterns across the Northern Hemisphere, it has been revealed. Researchers have found that the p ...More

Staring at Beijing on a smoggy winter day you wouldn’t think it, but in 2013 China strengthened its position as the world’s leading investor in clean technology. According to a recent research publish ...More

New Delhi, April 13: An international panel today warned that the world hadn’t done enough to curb greenhouse gas emissions but said that changes in lifestyles and energy technologies could yet help ...More

The huge number of cars that run in Delhi cause a lot of air and noise pollution. However, it is their maintenance that is leading to extremely harmful water and soil contamination. The Delhi Pollu ...More

MUMBAI: It is a noisy padayatra with a band playing filmi music and fireworks, both in the sky and on the ground, as if in a marriage procession. But Mumbaikars, it seems, are so weary, few bother to ...More

The fate of trees on Ambedkar Veedhi, near Vidhana Soudha, remains uncertain. City planners say the road is not being widened but redone like the Vittal Mallya Road. “The median will have barricades ...More

NAGPUR: The luxurious life of modern times has cost human beings environmental balance. This imbalance is caused by increasing dependence on chlorofluorocarbons which has led to depletion of ozone l ...More

More people die in road crashes in India than anywhere else in the world. Every year, road accidents in India claim 1,42,485 lives. But there's something else that kills 6 times as many. Air pollut ...More

Political parties have shown, in their respective manifestos, lack of intent to address Delhi’s critical environmental issues. They have promised reduction of rising pollution levels, conservation ...More

The road from General Post Office (GPO) towards the Balekundri Circle has a road divider with some big and beautiful trees. All the soil on the divider has been scraped off leaving the tree roots exp ...More

NEW DELHI: This March recorded the lowest particulate matter (PM2.5) levels-fine, respirable pollutants-in the past four years. While this could seem like a relief at the moment, scientists at the I ...More

Contrary to the claims of the Union Environment Ministry’s Expert Appraisal Committee, a joint survey by the Bombay Natural History Society and Madras Naturalists Society has found that the Odiyur Lag ...More

Delhi is the most polluted city in the world, according to a WHO study released on Wednesday. The 2014 version of the Ambient Air Pollution (AAP) database contains results of outdoor air pollution ...More

London: British authorities have warned people with heart or lung conditions to avoid exertion as a combination of industrial pollution and Sahara dust blankets the country in smog. Asthmatics we ...More

British authorities on Wednesday warned people with heart or lung conditions to avoid exertion as a combination of European emissions and Sahara dust created a "perfect storm'' of pollution that bla ...More

NEW DELHI: Environmentalists have been warning about growing encroachments on the Yamuna floodplains being a recipe for disaster. Now, the latest UN panel report on climate change echoes these fears ...More

More than 300 scientists from 115 countries, forming a Nobel-winning intergovernmental panel chaired by an Indian, have made some dire, but not hopeless, pronouncements on climate change from Japan. T ...More

India’s over 121 billion strong population stands to gain almost 3.3 years of their life if all parts of the country adhere to the air quality standards laid down by the government, a new study by w ...More