Residents have raised concerns over rising dust pollution because of construction work across the city with National Green Tribunal (NGT) directives such as covering construction material and sprinkli ...More

The Government has notified a Graded Response Action Plan for Delhi and NCR, which comprises measures such as prohibition on entry of trucks into Delhi; ban on construction activities, introduction of ...More

PARIS: Global warming has boosted the frequency and severity of deadly air pollution peaks in northern China, scientists said today. Toxic particles in the air cause nearly a million premature deaths ...More

The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) has warned in its draft comprehensive action plan that secondary particulate matter, particles that are born out of the primary source air pollutants ...More

The Delhi-NCR belt, a pollution hotspot, needs a drastic reduction in level of pollutants, by up to 76 per cent in some areas, and several radical interventions for its air to meet safe standards. ...More

New Delhi: The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), along with the Delhi government and CPCB, has finished drafting the “Comprehensive Action Plan”, which lists out several measures to cont ...More

Beijing will expand funding to reduce air pollution in 2017, including phasing out thousands of automobiles and replacing coal furnaces in hundreds of villages, a media report said on Saturday. So fa ...More

The capital did not see a single “good” air quality day throughout winter, a report by the Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED) has revealed. The air quality was ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ ...More

GURUGRAM: The department of urban local bodies has directed Huda and MCG to submit status reports at the earliest on steps taken to curb air pollution and improve ambient air quality in Gurugram. T ...More

BEIJING: Beijing will expand funding to reduce air pollution in 2017, including phasing out thousands of automobiles and replacing coal furnaces in hundreds of villages, a media report said on Saturda ...More

Air quality was categorised as “poor or very poor” on nearly 90 per cent of the total days in the four-month winter season this year, a study today said and asserted that air pollution poses a serious ...More

New Delhi: Air quality was categorisedas"poor or very poor" on nearly 90 per cent of the total days in the four-month winter season this year, a study today said and asserted that air pollution poses ...More

‘Something is rotten’ in the township of Kaushambi and a committee of officials from the Central Pollution Control Board, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, UP Pollution Control Board and the Ghaz ...More

Beijing will expand funding to reduce air pollution in 2017, including phasing out thousands of automobiles and replacing coal furnaces in hundreds of villages, a media report said on Saturday. So fa ...More

The State of the Global Air report released late last month in Boston estimates that India had suffered about 1.1 million premature deaths in 2015 because of air pollution. This shocking estimate has ...More

Union environment minister Anil Dave is a brave man. At a time when people are becoming increasingly cautious about air pollution and the harmful effect it has on our health, and several studies are w ...More

Even as pollution checking of vehicles have commenced in Raipur amid absymally low number of pollution checking centres in proportion to the number of vehicles plying on the city's roads across the ci ...More

According to a study, post winter, Mumbai has been breathing air which is poorer in quality than Delhi, which is one of the most polluted cities in the world. In Mumbai, microscopic pollutants in the ...More

GHAZIABAD: The online automatic ambient air quality monitoring system is now operational in Ghaziabad. With the new system in place, the pollution board can now record, assess and analyse pollution da ...More

A study was conducted recently by the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) which recorded the air pollution levels in Indian cities, namely Pune, Delhi and Mumbai. The resear ...More