Students at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, have designed a special device which will enable volunteers at the Commonwealth Games this October to collect primary data for tr ...More

Continuing their effort to make children more sensitive to environmental issues and induce responsible behaviour among them, Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) has established over 2,200 ec ...More

New Delhi: The report on environment accepts that Delhi’s air pollution problems are not going to be solved unless major policy-level interventions are made. The city has an estimated 60 lakh vehicles ...More

BEIJING: A burst oil pipeline in north China has spewed thousands of gallons (litres) of diesel into a major tributary of the Yellow River, state media said Sunday. The spill occurred on W ...More

BEIJING: A burst oil pipeline in north China has spewed thousands of gallons (litres) of diesel into a major tributary of the Yellow River, state media said Sunday. The spill occurred on Wednesday ...More

Let’s protect our environment. Let’s use bicycles, rickshaws and electric scooters to prevent pollution. Let’s use two-wheelers and cars only when highly necessary. Let’s stop air pollution and save o ...More

MEXICO CITY: Mexico will push for a binding international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions when it hosts the next climate change summit in Mexico City in the coming year. Mexico ...More

MEXICO CITY: Mexico will push for a binding international agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions when it hosts the next climate change summit in Mexico City in the coming year. Mexico seeks ...More

DINDIGUL: Massive urbanisation and air pollution are the major factors for the rise in temperature and global warming. Balanced growth in the development and protection of nature, particularly eco sys ...More

DAVANGERE: Chairman of The Combustion Institute-Indian Section and Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister V.K. Saraswat has called for an intensive search for alternative fuels, and said that any ...More

A rare political unanimity has enabled Howrah to come up with a long-term plan to combat climate change, apparently a first in the country. The plan drawn up by the Howrah Municipal Corporation, appr ...More

GUWAHATI, Dec 6 – Most of them have not heard of global warming or Green House Gas emissions, but children across the State are falling victim to vehicular pollution at a worrying rate. Exhaust fro ...More

Deliberating upon the need to apprise people about the environment hazards caused by burning of agriculture residue or wastes in the fields, Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) is organising ...More

NEW DELHI: For the first time, the environment ministry is in the process of ranking the country's most heavily polluted industrial clusters to ensure appropriate action. A comprehensive environ ...More

Delhi exceeds the new pollution norms consistently and if the new standards are to be applied, Chandni Chowk and Sarojini Nagar now fall in the ‘critically polluted’ zone, with one-and-a-half times th ...More

NEW DELHI: The government should sell off half its public sector undertakings and use the $200 billion it will thus make to build environmental assets, 13th Finance Commission Chairman Vijay K ...More

NEW DELHI: The government should sell off half its public sector undertakings and use the $200 billion it will thus make to build environmental assets, 13th Finance Commission Chairman Vijay Kelkar ...More

WASHINGTON: Air pollution poses a largely overlooked threat to people living near smaller regional airports, says a new study. The study, one of a handful to examine airborne pollutants near regio ...More

NEW DELHI: Fifteen years after they were first notified, the environment ministry on Wednesday released new and tougher air quality norms under which residential and industrial areas will have the s ...More

NEW DELHI: With pollution level rising across the country, India on Wednesday revised the national ambient air quality standards after 15 years. "We have notified the ambient air quality standar ...More