New Delhi, Feb. 16: A study released today has estimated India had over a million preterm births in 2010, twice China's count and the highest in the world, because expectant mothers were exposed to po ...More

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal has directed inspection of industries in north-west Delhi after a plea alleged that many units have been running without permission and causing air pollution. A ...More

Curbing outdoor air pollution might help prevent 2.7 million premature births a year, a condition that threatens children’s lives and increases their risk of long-term physical and neurological proble ...More

NEW DELHI: Expectant mothers breathing polluted air resulted in premature birth of over one million babies in India in 2010, highest in the world and twice the numbers for China, a study claimed on T ...More

The Union Health and Environment Ministries are likely to collaborate on a series of studies to determine the long-term impact of air pollution on health in India. This comes on the heels of a report ...More

In its 'war' on hazardous air pollution, China's government has a dilemma: it needs to be open about air quality data to hold polluters to account, but worries that too much bad news from alternative, ...More

The air quality in the city was marked ‘very poor’ on Wednesday, worse than the pollution level in Delhi according to Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) air quality index report. The daily air ...More

A day after a study claimed that 1.1 million people died due to air pollution in India in 2015, the Union Health Minister today said his ministry was working in coordination with the Environment Minis ...More

The bad news on the pollution front continues: India’s air now rivals China’s as the world’s deadliest, according to a new study published on Tuesday amid warnings that efforts to curb pollution from ...More

Following failure in addressing recurring breaches of air pollution limits for nitrogen dioxide, the European Union has issued "final warnings" to Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Britain in the matt ...More

NEW DELHI: India's deepening pollution problem, which hit home with a vengeance after Diwali last year as Delhi and NCR woke up enveloped in smog that refused to lift for days, has a death toll second ...More

Two of the world’s fastest growing economies, China and India, are also rivals for the world’s highest air pollution health burden. In 2015, India recorded a higher casualty rate due to outdoor air po ...More

After Delhi, Mumbai and Pune, scientists at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology will set up the System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) in Ahmedabad in March. Health alerts will al ...More

The National Green Tribunal has directed inspection of industries in Northwest Delhi after a plea alleged that many units were running without requisite permission and causing air pollution. A bench ...More

GURUGRAM: Environmental activists on Wednesday threatened to move the National Green Tribunal (NGT), claiming authorities had failed to follow construction normsfor infrastructure projectsunder way on ...More

NEW DELHI: The government here may be in denial mode on linking premature deaths to air pollution, but a new study on global air pollution by the US-based institutes claims that the India's worsening ...More

India and China account for more than half of the world's premature deaths due to air pollution, a new report on Tuesday said. Noting that India's lives lost to the tiny particulate matter (PM) is ...More

NEW DELHI: India's deepening pollution problem, which hit home with a vengeance after Diwali last year as Delhi and NCR woke up enveloped in smog that refused to lift for days, has a death toll second ...More

SHANGHAI: China and India accounted for more than half of the total number of global deaths attributable to air pollution in 2015, a study published on Tuesday said. Research by the US-based Healt ...More

GURUGRAM: Air quality index in Gurugram touched the 356-mark on Monday, surpassing 28 other cities in terms of pollution again. The other severely polluted cities were Muzaffarpur, Haldia, Lucknow, ...More