Has the sea of idling vehicles on Delhi’s roads started to look like an ocean lately? Has the waiting time at every intersection stretched to two or more signal cycles? As we spent more and more time ...More

NOIDA: The city will finally have its own automated air quality monitoring system soon. All parameters which determine air quality including PM2.5, which is crucial for the determination of levels of ...More

New York: Dust pollution produced during the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre caused babies in the area to be born prematurely and with low birth weight, a new study has found, which ex ...More

Heavy smog that blanketed northern China at the weekend cleared somewhat on Monday, with flights in Beijing back to normal, but it was likely only to be a brief respite with more choking smog expected ...More

Heavy smog in northern China on Sunday caused hundreds of flights to be cancelled and highways to shut, disrupting the first day of the new year holiday. Large parts of the north were hit by hazardou ...More

Chinese capital on Monday extended the orange alert for heavy air pollution for another three days as toxic smog continued to choke Beijing in the New Year, forcing authorities to cancel hundreds of f ...More

New Delhi: Conversations about air pollution peaked in the national capital in the year 2016 with the air quality index dipping to “dangerous” levels post Diwali celebrations. Additional factors such ...More

As India continues to expand its economy through rapid industrialization, the government faces an uphill task of cleaning its air, particularly in the main cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. While D ...More

The number of registered motor vehicles seems to be indirectly proportional to the increasing air pollution in the city. About nine per cent jump has been recorded in the number of registered motor ve ...More

GURGAON: Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB), in the last one year, has collected a fine of Rs. 56 lakh from stone crusherssituated in city's fringe areas in the last one year. The penalt ...More

There is no stopping the national capital from driving its air pollution to a new high. The city of about 20 million, which ranks among the world’s top cities with foul air on a WHO list, has almost ...More

Beijing issued an orange alert for air pollution on Thursday when fresh smog will hit the Chinese capital, said the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. The smog is forecast to cover pa ...More

KOLKATA: The skyline on this part of the country turns grey by afternoon. By dusk, a thick layer of smog envelops the horizon. With winter setting in, millions living in rural and suburban India has m ...More

Beijing, London, Mexico City, New Delhi and Paris are among the cities that have drawn attention for their dangerously high air pollution levels in 2016 – but they’re not alone. The World Health Organ ...More

Punjab on Wednesday finalised a detailed implementation plan for next year to curb air pollution in the State with focus on pollution reduction due to the burning of crop residue. The plan components ...More

NEW DELHI: The Centre is drawing up a 'month to month' plan to deal with air pollution in Delhi and the national capital region rather than concentrating just on emergency measures as data show that t ...More

From the debate over Arvind Kejriwal’s odd-even policy to outrage over poisonous post-Diwali smog, India’s public discourse on air pollution was centred in and around Delhi in 2016. This needs to chan ...More

In the spring of 2015, the conversation on pollution in China kicked into an even higher gear with an online documentary film, Under the Dome, by a former TV journalist, Chai Jing. The documentary did ...More

New Delhi: The "Environmental Emergency" caused by one of the worst stretches of air pollution in Delhi and the northern region led National Green Tribunal to take the Centre and some states to task f ...More

GURGAON: Compared to the grey Christmas, Monday was bright and sunny, but pollutioncontinued to hover at levels dangerously higher than the national safe standard. According to Central Pollution Co ...More