Calcutta, Jan. 9: Calcutta High Court will monitor the implementation of the ban on two-stroke autos, “given the inability of the state government” to enforce the order to fight air pollution. The co ...More

HONG KONG: One in five Hong Kong residents is considering leaving the city because of its dire air quality, a survey released on Monday has found, raising fears over the financial hub's competitivenes ...More

Calcutta is ready to give up the rogue auto for the chance to breathe cleaner air, according to a poll commissioned by Metro. Sixty-seven per cent of the respondents to the poll, conducted by GfK M ...More

Environment We put this above all else, because this year will be our big battle in the war against air pollution. Calcutta High Court has banned all two-stroke autos from January 1. But the deadli ...More

MEXICO CITY: Gabriela Escalante stalks the rumbling streets alongside newspaper, peanut and candy vendors, wading deep into traffic at red lights across town. Her eyes are fixed on tailpipes. A me ...More

SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco International Airport is planning to give guilt-ridden travelers a chance to offset the air pollution emitted from their plane rides. The airport says it will set up a ...More

WASHINGTON: A US appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a Bush administration rule to reduce air pollution from power plants and help states downwind from the facilities meet federal clean air standards. ...More

BANGALORE: It may come as a surprise to many that our regular lifestyle leads to huge wastage of precious resources like water. In the conventional toilet, every flush uses up to 13.5 litres of water. ...More

NOIDA/GHAZIABAD: The air pollution has touched dangerous levels in the National Capital Region (NCR) towns of Noida and Ghaziabad due to increase in vehicular traffic and industrial growth, officials ...More

NEW DELHI: As authorities hanker for a space to be utilized as landfill site, the existing Bhalswa-Jehangirpuri dumping ground of waste in the Capital has overflowed its capacity, posing a threat to g ...More

WASHINGTON: The Bush administration is trying to make sure in its final days that federal air pollution regulations will not be used to control the gases blamed for global warming. In a memorandum ...More

AHMEDABAD: Silence Zone'. If this was a big signboard put up at hospitals, schools, old age homes etc in Ahmedabad, the Amdavadi would welcome it with a honk! You see them in a tearing hurry every ...More

WASHINGTON: The Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to pay an additional $6.1m penalty after it reneged on a promise to cut air pollution from four refineries in California, Louisiana and Texas, the justice ...More

Belgaum: The people of Londa in Khanapur taluk have threatened to block the Belgaum-Goa National Highway 4A on December 23 if the district administration failed to concede their demand to find stop po ...More

DUBLIN: The world's first biodegradable computer, the iameco, has been manufactured in Dublin from bio-degradable wood panels made from waste products in the lumber and pulp industry. During a vis ...More

GULBARGA: The State Government has initiated measures to prepare an action plan for the protection of wildlife, the environment and forests and entrusted the responsibility of studying the current sta ...More

Hyderabad: Addressing the health hazards caused through traditional stoves in rural areas, Envirofit International, a US-based company launched a range of biomass cook stoves here on Tuesday. The stov ...More

CHANDIGARH: When Nawab Fidai Khan designed and got built what we now know as the Yadavindra Garden Complex in Pinjore during the 17th century, he won't have dreamt that some state body would have the ...More

Shimla, December 4 Recognising the importance of environment statistics as an emerging area, the National Conference of the Central and the State Statistical Organisations (COSCSSO) has underlined ...More

BEIJING: Beijing achieved its annual target of low pollution days one month early due in part to Olympics measures, but repeating the success next year will be a big challenge, state media said on Mon ...More