GURUGRAM: Millennium Cityreclaimed its unflattering position among the country's most polluted cities, with the air quality index (AQI) reaching 346 on Saturday and 329 on Sunday, and PM2.5 crossing t ...More

ENVIRONMENTALISTS with the National Air Quality Monitoring Programme (NAMP) in the city have been facing a huge dilemma for the last three years. In mid-2014, the only dust sampler to monitor very fin ...More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said the time has come for all to realize that a collective effort was needed to clear up the polluted air and the automobile industry has a huge role to play ...More

NAGPUR: Air quality monitoring figures at stack (emission from chimney) of Koradi ThermalPower Station (KTPS) accessed by TOI show the recorded figures of concentration of sulphur dioxide (SO2) and pa ...More

New York: A new study has revealed that exposure to higher levels of air pollution may increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease by lowering levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), comm ...More

Exposure to higher levels of air pollution may increase cardiovascular disease risk by lowering levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), commonly known as “good” cholesterol, says a study. Higher ex ...More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said the time has come for all to realize that a collective effort was needed to clear up the polluted air and the automobile industry has a huge role to play ...More

The Supreme Court on Thursday said the time has come for all to realise that a collective effort was needed to clear up the polluted air and the automobile industry has a huge role to play in this. A ...More

A recent research studied the impact of B vitamins in lessening the impact of fine particle pollution on cardiovascular disease. The findings, conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Pub ...More

NEW DELHI: Within a week or so, the national capital region will see a spike in air pollution levels as farmers across north India are likely to start burning wheat stubble following harvest of the ra ...More

The Supreme Court on Thursday said the time has come for all to realise that a collective effort was needed to clear up the polluted air and the automobile industry has a huge role to play in this. A ...More

A collective effort is needed to clean up the air, the Supreme Court on Thursday said, holding that it cannot be asked to shut its eyes to the “phenomenal rise” in the pollution levels. The apex court ...More

The Supreme Court today allowed a plea of Delhi Police seeking its permission for registration of heavy vehicles, having engine capacity of above 2000cc, used for services like fire fighting and riots ...More

The Indian government’s stance on air pollution and relation to health impact is at odds with Indian experts’ views on the subject. On Wednesday a panel including scientists from the IITs and an exper ...More

NEW DELHI: A new bench of Delhi high court on Wednesday took stock of progress made in reducing air pollution in the capital in past few years. A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Yogesh Khanna a ...More

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) receieved 63% more complaints on air pollution in 2016 compared to 2015, data released by NGO Praja Foundation on Tuesday revealed. The average air qualit ...More

Highlighting the absence of policy-level interventions to stop farmers from burning crop residue, air pollution experts on Wednesday said the union and state governments need to gear up now for a poll ...More

As cities around the world witness unprecedented levels of air pollution, the number of people dying from the impacts of air pollution are also rising. Global mortality due to PM2.5 – that is, parti ...More

India and China had the largest number of deaths owing to particulate matter (PM2.5) — small pollutant particles of 2.5 micron size that can easily enter the respiratory system and cause ailments — ...More

MUMBAI: A 63% increase in the number of air pollutioncomplaints received by the BMC was observed in 2016 compared to the previous year. In fact, in January and December 2016 the recorded Air Quality I ...More