Delhi could become the first city in the country to have its own ‘driving cycle’ and location-specific air quality management plans, which would help in tackling the city’s rising pollution levels. Dr ...More

Delhi could become the first city in the country to have its own ‘driving cycle’ and location-specific air quality management plans, which would help in tackling the city’s rising pollution levels. ...More

NEW DELHI: The annual average PM2.5 concentration in Delhi is typically more than 10 times the US National Ambient Air Quality Standard of 12 micrograms per cubic metres. Such poor air quality has sig ...More

PUNE: The next time you stand outside the airport, don't fret about toxic fumes of vehicles passing by. Four outdoor air pollution controllers have been installed outside the terminal area to tackle a ...More

HYDERABAD: Its official, the city's air is unfit for breathing. The Air Quality Indexmaintained by the Telangana State Pollution Control Board(TSPCB) shows that there are 13 areas in the city where ai ...More

The ever-rising levels of air pollution in the capital has travelled from being the talk of the town, to being the talk of entire world lately. While pollution's link with respiratory ailments has bee ...More

The project started eight months ago and has so far identified two “hotspots” of pollution The Ganga may be the focus of the government’s river-cleaning efforts, but a group of U.S. researchers is wo ...More

Tribune Reporters Fatehgarh Sahib, July 11 The district administration has chalked out a comprehensive plan to make Mandi Gobindgarh pollution-free. This was stated by Kanwalpreet Brar, Deputy Commiss ...More

New Delhi: For daily commuters in Delhi, what has been the general experience is now being backed by hard statistics. The Centre for Science and Environment’s new assessment of travel time and traffic ...More

Rourkela: At a time when air pollution has become a global issue, as many as 97 highly polluting industrial units have been identified in Sundargarh and Deogarh districts alone. According to the Oris ...More

Air pollution is the world’s single biggest environmental health risk. A new study may have just provided a roadmap to tackle the problem. The Stony Brook University researchers revealed that sulfur ...More

Such surfaces absorb sulphur dioxide Concrete surfaces can help tackle air pollution as it absorbs sulphur dioxide — a major pollutant, scientists, including one of Indian origin, have found. The st ...More

New York: Concrete surfaces can help tackle air pollution as it absorbs sulphur dioxide - a major pollutant, scientists including one of Indian origin have found. The strategy of using pollution caus ...More

Concrete surfaces can help tackle air pollution as it absorbs sulphur dioxide – a major pollutant, scientists including one of Indian origin have found. The strategy of using pollution causing materia ...More

What is polluting cities? It is now a part of record that several cities in India are among the most polluted in the world. The villain, in most cases, is aerosols and particulate matter. It is a cat ...More

NEW DELHI: Environment minister Imran Hussain on Wednesday held a meeting with the forest department, DMRCand PWD to explore ways to increase green cover on open pavements, central verges and undernea ...More

LUCKNOW: Over the past two weeks, close to 3,750 SMSes and e-mail alerts have been issued to industries generating more than the permissible limit of pollutants in the Ganga basin. As many as 716 g ...More

Pollution has been taking its toll across India. A recent study predicts that high levels of environmental pollutants and dust in northern India are expected to reduce the region’s capacity to generat ...More

Plantation drives, awareness runs organised as part of Vanam-Manam Students and staff of VikramaSimhapuri University (VSU) in Nellore took part in a saplings plantation programme held on the universi ...More

NEW DELHI: It's not just your lungs that the city's bad air is hurting. A study, published in the Atmospheric, Chemistry and Physics journal, has highlighted how air pollution could delay rains in som ...More