BEIJING, China has indicated it plans to introduce a tax on carbon dioxide emissions. Jia Chen, who heads the tax policy division at the Ministry of Finance, in a posting on the ministry's website, ...More

It says something about our attention span that the important news seldom becomes news. The two most significant, and in some ways related, stories last week were these: on Sunday, this paper chronicl ...More

Widespread outrage against China's environmental issues that began when Beijing's air pollution hit record levels last month has spread to encompass another major public health threat: water pollution ...More

The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has confirmed that the pollution level across Bangalore is almost touching 100 per cent. Cases of pollution-related health hazards like wheezing, co ...More

MUMBAI: The heavy fog enveloping the city during early mornings is an ominous indicator of Mumbai's deteriorating air quality. Official readings since mid-January evidence that owing to cooler weather ...More

The latest trend at Beijing’s posh international schools is pollution domes—giant pressurised canopies that can cover sports fields, playgrounds or tennis courts—so that children can have recess and p ...More

VISAKHAPATNAM: This once sleepy fishing hamlet, as Vizag was referred to in its earlier days, was considered to be the ideal getaway for people wanting to better their health. So salubrious was the cl ...More

Chinese media said on Monday the government had to take urgent action to tackle air pollution, which has blanketed parts of the country at dangerous levels in recent days, and one newspaper called for ...More

December is often a peak month for winter smog. Over 60% of the most serious UK smogs since 1873 have been in December. During December 2012, high pressure centred over Iceland led to settled weather ...More

Smog has helped trigger a wave of respiratory ailments in the past several days in Beijing, while flu viruses such as H1N1 continue to spread across the city, experts said. Ma Anlin, deputy director ...More

BEIJING: Public anger in China at dangerous levels of air pollution, which blanketed Beijing in acrid smog, spread Monday as state media queried official transparency and the nation's breakneck develo ...More

BEIJING Beijing schools kept children indoors and hospitals saw a spike in respiratory cases Monday following a weekend of off-the charts pollution in China's smoggy capital, the worst since the gover ...More

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has issued notices to two Kurla-based plants manufacturing ready mix concrete, asking why action should not be taken against them, and directing them to comply ...More

WASHINGTON: Last year was among the top 10 warmest in the modern global record, two US climate-watching agencies reported on Tuesday, less than a week after 2012 was declared the hottest ever in the c ...More

Rising public concerns over hazardous pollution triggered by intense smog that blanketed Chinese cities for much of the past week has prompted the government to pledge fresh emission curbs and to susp ...More

Public outrage over the choking smog that has blanketed a large part of China for more than 10 days has prompted many cities to shut down factories, ban the use of officials' cars and attempt artifici ...More

BEIJING: Public anger in China at dangerous levels of air pollution, which blanketed Beijing in acrid smog, spread on Monday as state media queried official transparency and the nation's breakneck dev ...More

BEIJING: Chinese meteorological authority has issued a yellow alert for fog indicating dangerous levels of smog in China's northern and western regions, including major cities like Beijing and Chengdu ...More

Even in these hard economic times, every cloud has a silver lining. Scientists have discovered that Athens, one of Europe's most polluted cities, has seen a drastic reduction in pollution since 2008 ...More

Fighting climate change by producing more biofuels could actually worsen a little-known type of air pollution and cause almost 1,400 premature deaths a year in Europe by 2020, according to a new study ...More