After cracking the whip on polluting vehicles, the Supreme Court turned on Tuesday its spotlight to polluting industries in Delhi and NCR. A bench headed by Justice MB Lokur ordered the Centre Pollut ...More

Nagpur: Activist Ankita Shah has again knocked the doors of Prime Minister Office (PMO) after not getting any intimation regarding her complaint on air pollution from three new units of Koradi Thermal ...More

Given the high levels of pollution in the national capital last year—PM2.5 levels were 10 times the acceptable limit—the government came up with an action plan that covered not just Delhi but adjoinin ...More

NEW DELHI: Underlining air pollution as a serious problem, the government's think tank NitiAayog in its latest action agenda has come out with a five-point remedy, including higher taxes on petrol\die ...More

MANGALURU: After conducting a pulmonary function test(PFT) on the traffic police of Mangaluru city, the Anti-Pollution Drive Foundationhas initiated a programme to assess the impact of air pollution o ...More

Visakhapatnam: It’s a known fact that the traffic cops manning the important intersections of the city for hours on end are prone to pulmonary function alterations. Now, a study carried out by researc ...More

First it was the traffic police men and now auto drivers. Anti-Pollution Drive (APD) Foundation has initiated the Phase-2 to assess the health impact of air pollution on auto rickshaw drivers of coast ...More

Delhi’s Pollution Under Control (PUC) system is seriously flawed a report from the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority, said. There are lakhs of vehic ...More

Schools in Delhi have been instructed by the Delhi government to establish seed banks to encourage students to plant trees in public places. The initiative has been taken in order to make the students ...More

To make the students sensitive about the environment, the Delhi Government has directed all schools to establish seed banks to encourage students to plant trees in public places. The Directorate of Ed ...More

NEW DELHI: Underlining air pollution as a serious problem, the government's think tank NitiAayog in its latest action agenda has come out with a five-point remedy, including higher taxes on petrol\die ...More

NEW DELHI: Northern states are working on concrete steps to prevent large¬scale crop burning that shrouds Delhi in a pall of black smoke and raises air pollution to a level that creates a health eme ...More

HYDERABAD: Severe industrial air pollution and health issues are driving out several residents living in areas surrounding the IT hub. Areas such as Kukatpally and Madhapur have seen a rise in levels ...More

Hyderabad: Industries resorting to illegal dumping of hazardous wastes, effluent discharges or causing air pollution and odour nuisance were by cautioned of stringent action including prosecution as p ...More

The government today told the National Green Tribunal that there was a “misconception” that only diesel pollutes the environment. “NGT has concluded that diesel vehicles are more polluting than petrol ...More

NEW DELHI: The Centre once again argued against phasing out more than 10-year-old diesel vehicles in National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday. NGT then asked the government to suggest a solution. ...More

LOS ANGELES: India's proposed plan to build nearly 370 coal-fired power plants may "single-handedly jeopardise" the entire planet's effort to achieve the Paris climate goals of limiting global warming ...More

India is making a big push for solar energy, with power capacity expected to double this year. But some of the gains, especially in north India, could be offset by a growing problem: air pollution. ...More

India is making a big push for solar energy, with power capacity expected to double this year. But some of the gains, especially in north India, could be offset by a growing problem: air pollution. ...More

The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday questioned the government over its submission that the ban on 10-year old diesel vehicles in Delhi-NCR should be removed as they were not major contributors to ...More