The temple city of Tirupati, a cultural centre and a major pilgrimage destination in southern India, might be succumbing to a phenomenon common to urban areas. There has been steady rise in population ...More

Japanese electronics giant Panasonic said today it would give employees sent to China a wage premium to compensate for the country's hazardous air pollution, in a possible first for an international ...More

PARIS: Paris authorities said today they would make public transport free for three days to encourage drivers to leave their vehicles behind due to severe pollution caused by unusually warm weather ...More

PARIS: With its exploding urban population burning ever more coal and wood, Africa could contribute as much as 55 percent of the world's particle pollutants by 2030, a study said on Tuesday. In 20 ...More

PARIS: With its exploding urban population burning ever more coal and wood, Africa could contribute as much as 55 percent of the world's particle pollutants by 2030, a study said on Tuesday. In 20 ...More

BEIJING: China will tighten environmental legislation and force polluters to pay compensation following renewed blasts of toxic air, the country's top legislator said on Sunday. Zhang Dejiang said ...More

The capital city has been booming with ear-splitting and hell raising levels of noise pollution for the past many years. Though the recorded noise levels from various parts of the city have been way a ...More

He is the man responsible for guarding the capital’s lungs. But he knows that he has a Herculean task on his hands. Meet Sanjiv Kumar, secretary environment and forests, Delhi government, who is ona ...More

BEIJING: Only three of China's 74 major cities meet its national air quality standards, said deputy minister for environmental protection Wu Xiaoqing. The three clean cities are distant and low-indust ...More

Next week, Mumbai will finally get an emission inventory - a database that will help predict the extent of air pollution for up to 72 hours in advance and also help detect its source. The inventory ...More

PUNE: In a negligible but encouraging sign, more vehicles in the city are running on compressed natural gas (CNG) now than they were in 2011. Till January 31, 2014, as many as 45,000 vehicles in ...More

China is deploying drones in its fight against pollution and smog that frequently engulfs large swathes of the country including Beijing, a senior official said on Saturday at a discussion during ...More

On International Women’s Day, Dr. M. Premalatha, associate professor at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Science and Technology, NIT-T explains why more female science students should opt f ...More

As China grapples to contain recurring smog, its scientists claimed to have developed a drone which will help to clear the polluted skies. Chinese aviation designers prepared for the test flight ...More

Constant exposure to polluted air has led to skin allergies and other health issues among residents The slum area, known as Bhagat Singh Colony, adjacent to the sixth lane of Dwarakanagar, is consid ...More

China has declared war on air pollution. India needs to resume a long-derailed discussion on air quality. A growing public obsession with air pollution, which experts have likened to a nuclear winter ...More

While it’s easy for people to point fingers at them, the everyday realities that our traffic constables and police officials undergo are harsher than what most people have to face — the constant ...More

The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board on Monday ordered closure of two oil extraction units, and one blue metal stone crushing unit in the district for causing air pollution. The board had directed ...More

With growing no. of vehicles, Chennai earns dubious distinction of highest levels of exhaust pollution in a study Chennai is a city where vehicular population has grown by leaps and bounds and alongs ...More

NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has kept mum on dealing with severe air pollution in the city, likely to be as bad as Beijing's. Environmentalists are now hoping that the national auto fuel policy, wh ...More