The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has expressed "deep shock" at the findings of the new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count. The findings say air pollution has become one of the top 10 kil ...More

Globally, the two most important risk factors were high BP — estimated to be responsible for 9.4 million deaths — and tobacco smoking (accounted for 6.3 million deaths). NEW DELHI: High blood pressur ...More

Even as the Delhi government examines a proposal to levy a fine of Rs 2000 on polluting vehicles in the City, the Supreme Court appointed Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA ...More

CHANDRAPUR : Chandrapur, already infamous for air pollution, is now faced with the serious threat of pollution from below the grounds. The latest report of Groundwater Survey and Development Agency (G ...More

The Delhi government is mulling over proposals to tighten the noose around real estate developers whose projects cause dust pollution. A five-year action plan prepared by the government and the Centre ...More

Iranian women wear masks to help guard against dangerous levels of air pollution as they walks in the center of the smog-filled capital, Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, December 4, 2012. (AP photo) TEHRAN: ...More

Under fire from both the Supreme Court's monitoring committee on environment and from green activists for the continuing loss of forest cover and increasing air pollution levels, Haryana's environment ...More

Heat, carbon dioxide and air pollution are already having significant effects on trees, plants and crops, and for most plant scientists, the debate over climate change ended long before the arrival of ...More

There's just one area in which India has outrun China - air pollution. The rise in air pollution levels in Indian megacities between 2002 and 2010 has been much more than Chinese urban centres. It wa ...More

Hu Shuli says it should release the findings of the long-awaited study on soil contamination, if it is to honour its pledge of action at the party congress Hu Shuli Hu Shuli is editor-in-chief of Ca ...More

Researchers have found that exposure to traffic-related air pollution during pregnancy is associated with autism, according to a new study released on Monday. The study, published online in the Arch ...More

The Supreme Court today sought the Centre's reply to a plea for levying "environment compensation charge" on all existing private vehicles and new diesel cars to control pollution in the National Capi ...More

Losing after winning is the worst feeling possible. This is how I feel looking out of my window at a thick pall of black smog engulfing my city. It was this time of the year, exactly 15 years ago, whe ...More

About two weeks after the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) slammed authorities in Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Faridabad for “very weak and inadequate monitoring ...More

A tidal wave is about to sweep over our state. Oil companies are snapping up thousands of acres across central and Southern California. Armed with dangerous new techniques, the petroleum industry aims ...More

New technologies for sensing chemicals that people are exposed to and their effects in the body will help scientists work towards a complete picture of how environmental pollutants influence health in ...More

INDORE: According to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) count, a global initiative involving the World Health Organisation, in South Asia, air pollution is ranked as the sixth most dangerous killer. Aroun ...More

The air pollution at Pusa in central Delhi and Noida in the national capital region (NCR) was highest in the region post-Diwali, scientists said on Thursday. It was exorbitantly high on hourly sca ...More

This Diwali night saw a rise in air pollution levels in some pockets of the Capital while noise levels declined compared with last year, according to an air-noise pollution assessment report released ...More

A slew of short and long-term measures including ban on entry of commercial vehicles not bound for Delhi, restriction on use of diesel generator sets during social functions, imposition of Rs.2,000 fi ...More