A free vehicle emission check campaign, marking the occasion of the World Environment Day, was organised by The Hindu in association with Canara Bank and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) ...More

CHENNAI: Cities across the country have widely disparate opinions on how to prioritise environmental protection and development, despite greenery giving way to the choke of urban sprawl. A study h ...More

India presents a unique environmental contrast: while the landscape in fast-growing cities is crumbling under human pressure, the Himalayas and the coastal areas are conserving the nature's best asset ...More

India presents a unique environmental mix with urban landscape crumbling under human pressure and far-flung coastal and Himalayan regions conserving nature's best. Sitting in cities one may not relea ...More

It’s all downhill with climate change, improper solid waste management affecting health: poll More than half of Bangaloreans admit to a perceived change in the city’s climate, and a majority feels im ...More

Lack of a proper waste management system, inadequate power supply and increasing number of vehicles with rapid urbanisation are taking a toll on the environment of the Millennium City. According to e ...More

Most still think it's the ruling dispensation that should resolve environmental issues; worse, one in three is a climate-change denier. There’s something grossly wrong with the environment of Bangalo ...More

The rising number of vehicles in the city and deterioration of air quality is fast becoming a cause of concern. These have been highlighted in the State of Environment Report of Chandigarh, 2012, pr ...More

With neither Delhi’s air nor its noise pollution levels registering a healthy trend in the recent past, on World Environment Day city doctors and health experts have warned about the major health haza ...More

Lack of a proper waste management system, inadequate power supply and increasing number of vehicles with rapid urbanisation are taking a toll on the environment of the Millennium City. According to e ...More

The people of Delhi feel embattled on the environment front - most believe that matters have turned for the worse in the last five years, according to a six- city survey conducted by The Energy and ...More

CHANDIGARH: Running a poultry farm in Haryana is not going to be an easy affair any more as the state government has notified guidelines for poultry farmers, asking them to adopt modern sanitary metho ...More

NEW DELHI: An environment survey carried out across six metropolitan cities by The Energy and Resources Institute has found that while 80% of the respondents in Delhi believe that the overall environm ...More

Big cities, barring Chennai, see a fall in groundwater; Number of trees, birds and animals decline. How fresh is the air in your city? Or does it pose a health hazard? Air quality in the country’s to ...More

NEW DELHI: India's economic development has led to worsening of air quality in major Indian cities, according to a new study published here today. The survey was carried out by The Energy and Reso ...More

VADODARA: To celebrate World Environment Day, the Indian Association for Air Pollution Control (IAAPC), the Baroda chapter of Indian Science Congress, India Water Works Association, Central Pollution ...More

Did you feel that this year is slightly hotter and more polluted than the last? City scientists have just completed a study of twenty areas in Bangalore that prove beyond doubt the filtering and cool ...More

VADODARA: To celebrate World Environment Day, the Indian Association for Air Pollution Control (IAAPC), the Baroda chapter of Indian Science Congress, India Water Works Association, Central Pollution ...More

Very high air pollution and low ground water levels clubbed with not enough facilities to treat increasing hazardous water has earned Delhi the dubious distinction of being an extremely low ranked sta ...More

The Planning Commission’s environment index for 2012 has ranked Delhi quite low on different environmental parameters. The Capital is placed at the 30th position among 35 states and union territories. ...More