LUCKNOW: Highlighting the UK government's keenness to work in the clean energy sector in India, junior minister in UK government's department of energy and climate change Baroness Verma has said the c ...More

Around the world three billion people have no access to modern cooking fuels. They depend mostly on direct burning of solid biomass for cooking and heating. The smoke from these rudimentary stoves cau ...More

BEIJING: Beijing Monday rolled out a slew of measures to curb industrial pollution amid latest efforts to improve the city's air quality. Unveiling a five-year clean air action plan (2013-2017), ...More

WASHINGTON: Nearly two lakh Americans die early due to air pollution, a new MIT study has claimed. Scientists said that a person who dies from an air pollution-related cause typically dies about a ...More

Over the last decade, biological research has thrown up so many surprises that conventional medical wisdom is turned repeatedly on its head. One such instance happened last week, when the French Natio ...More

SURAT: Enthusiastic denizens having a love for nature added verve to the mega tree plantation drive 'Vave Surat' of Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Saturday. A large number of schoolchildren, sen ...More

The members of Hope Foundation and employees of Accenture took part in a walkathon, ‘Green Your Lives, Walk for a Cause,’ organised in the city on Sunday. The walkathon aimed at creating awaren ...More

As the largest country in the world it shouldn’t be surprising when China comes top in any given category. Yet some of those categories are at loggerheads. For example, air pollution vs. investmen ...More

SURAT: Industrial units of Pandesara have put in place a self regulatory mechanism to check pollution. Pandesara Industrial Association (PIA) has pressed two mobile pollution monitoring units into ser ...More

WASHINGTON: NASA scientists have used satellite observations to measure air pollution's dependence on population in four of the planet's major air pollution regions: the United States, Europe, China a ...More

INDORE: Power supply to five industrial units of Sanwer Road Industrial Area was cut off on Monday for flouting pollution norms set up by Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB). The industri ...More

DHANBAD (JHARKHAND): Fourteen-year-old Raju plays marbles with his friends on a roadside at Jharia in this coal mining city while trucks travel past them showering fly ash being carried uncovered, exp ...More

Soon Hyderabad is going to have an Environmental Conservation and Upgradation Plan (ECUP) for the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region (HMR) to ensure a healthy environment for the inhabitants. The main obj ...More

Fourteen-year-old Raju plays marbles with his friends on a roadside at Jharia in this coal mining city while trucks travel past them showering fly ash being carried uncovered, exposing them to polluti ...More

Owing to complications caused by traffic traversing through the Bandipur tiger reserve, a combined effort of Chamarajanagar district administration, forest department and conservationists, the cro ...More

China, one of the most visited countries in the world, has seen sharply fewer tourists this year with worsening air pollution partly to blame. Numbers of foreign visitors have declined following Jan ...More

ALLAHABAD: As many as 9,478 vehicles were challaned during the past seven months till July 31 by the traffic police authorities. Traffic inspector, Indrapal Singh told TOI that traffic police aut ...More

ALLAHABAD: In a move to regulate traffic and bring down the rising air pollution levels, the traffic police on Monday launched a drive against vehicles emitting poisonous carbon mono-oxide beyond th ...More

JAIPUR: The past decade of rapid economic growth has brought many benefits to India, but on the flip side the environment has suffered the most, exposing the population to serious air and water pollut ...More

A three-month-long campaign to promote active commuting and use of non-motorised transport will soon be launched in the city with support from various groups, including software and services compani ...More