Noting that air pollution levels are continuously rising in the city due to multiple sources like open burning and construction activity, Environment minister Imran Hussain today said there is an urge ...More

Delhi's Environment Minister Imran Hussain on Wednesday ordered a complete ban on burning of any kind of garbage, leaves, waste plastic, rubber in all open places, with a view to checking air pollutio ...More

New Delhi, June 13 Delhi will have 20 new ambient air quality monitoring stations, procurement of which is in an advanced stage and the work order for them will be issued soon. This system will be fun ...More

The use of sewage water to meet cooling needs of coal-based power plants will not resolve the conflict over water between thermal projects, farmers and urban communities, a Greenpeace India report sai ...More

Bengaluru: According to the data collected by Greenpeace India, around 1.2 million people die in the country every year due to air pollution. Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) chairman, ...More

Monitoring of air quality in the national capital will expand by this October with the Delhi government informing that work related to the setting up of 20 new monitoring stations is in “advanced stag ...More

Twenty new air quality monitoring stations will start functioning in Delhi by October to “strengthen the fight against air pollution” in the Capital. The decision was taken in a meeting of the enviro ...More

“In the era of Sustainable Development, we can prevent the 1.4 million environment related deaths by making health a political choice across all government sectors,” said Dr. ZsuzsannaJakab, World Hea ...More

As the city struggles to dispose of its electronic waste (e-waste) safely, 40 housing societies and two educational institutes from Chembur, Sion and Matunga collected and recycled 700kg of e-waste ov ...More

More than 70 per cent of companies checked by Chinese authorities failed environmental standards during the latest round of air pollution inspections, state media reported on Sunday. The findings cam ...More

City residents have accused the Gurgaon district administration of not doing enough to control dust pollution. There are four major locations on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway which are dug up for the ...More

Disregarding new environment regulations, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has given more than 300 thermal power plants two- to five-year reprieve from adhering to the strict air pollution stan ...More

A team of researchers from the Delhi University have zeroed in on five trees, which they claim are the biggest contributors to clean the national capital’s air. Plants have always been known to cle ...More

All is not well in Mumbai. The city continues to reel from a cocktail of environmental problems with issues coming up every day. On World Environment Day, Environmental Policy Research Institute (EPR ...More

Is our government taking pollution seriously? Studies state that thousands of adults and children succumb to pollution-related afflictions every day. A 2016 WHO report, titled Ambient Air Pollution, ...More

The Paris Agreement on climate change has set the tone for stricter norms to be followed by countries to limit their greenhouse gas emissions and contain the impact of global warming. While cities con ...More

Mumbai: While Tesla founder and climate crusader Elon Musk has hailed India's aim to produce only electric cars by 2030 and has stated that it is the largest market for solar power, on World Environme ...More

New Delhi: Already dealing with the high particulate matters in the air, the national capital this summer has witnessed an alarming build-up of ozone, a Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) study ...More

The number of registered vehicles in Delhi has crossed the mark of One crore, in the middle of growing concerns over rising pollution levels and poor traffic conditions in the city. Transport departm ...More

New Delhi, June 5: There is bad news as far as deadly ozone pollution is concerned on the World Environment Day celebrated across the globe on Monday. According to the Centre for Science and Environ ...More