While the air pollution level crossed the emergency mark — 300 mg per cubic meter of PM 2.5 — over the weekend, the Centre’s ambitious Graded Response Action plan was nowhere in sight. The plan is exp ...More

As the winter season in northern India is heading to its peak, air pollution level have entered severe zone in Delhi, especially in bordering areas like Anand Vihar and Punjabi Bagh. Delhi Environment ...More

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment has found the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change lacking in taking enough measures to check pollution. The committee said, "Air pol ...More

While India’s capital city, Delhi, features prominently in global headlines for its heavily polluted air, especially in the month of November following the festival of Diwali and then throughout winte ...More

AGRA: At a time when there is increasing focus on bringing down pollution around the Taj Mahal and other monuments under ASI protection here, the body still does not have its own laboratory to researc ...More

ULAANBAATOR: Hundreds of Mongolians have braved frigid weather to stage a protest in the country's capital demanding that the government do more to address worsening air pollutionthey fear is sickenin ...More

It’s that time of the year when vehicles’s number plates grab eyeballs in Delhi. Yes, we are talking about odd-even scheme in the national capital. The car rationing scheme, which was implemented in J ...More

China’s courts will widen the range of offences that constitute “environmental crimes” to make it easier to take legal action against polluters, a senior judiciary official told a news briefing on Mon ...More

While the thick blanket of fog engulfed Delhi on Sunday, air quality remained “severe” with four-fold increase of pollutant values. The National Air Quality Index (NAQI) has forecast poor air quality ...More

GURGAON: As fog enveloped Gurgaon and the average minimum temperature plunged to 8 degrees Celsius, the level of particulate matter (PM) 2.5 shot up again, choking the city on the Christmas day. Th ...More

As temperatures dipped on Sunday, air pollution levels refused to reduce even as wind speed remained high throughout Monday. High wind speed aids the dispersion of pollutants but low temperatures incr ...More

China's largely rubber-stamp parliament passed a law on Sunday that will levy specific environmental protection taxes on industry for the first time from 2018, as part of a renewed focus on fighting t ...More

This Christmas, the air people inhaled in Delhi was in the “severe” category of air pollution. However, things are likely to get better from Monday. The 24-hour rolling average of PM10 and PM2.5 were ...More

Bengaluru's air has become significantly more toxic, according to a recent study. Air quality measured in the city over an eight-year period in six locations revealed that while sulphur dioxide levels ...More

New Delhi: The centre’s graded response system to tackle air pollution, which proposes emergency measures such as odd-even car rationing scheme and closing schools based on the intensity of the situat ...More

BEIJING: China has passed a law that levies taxes on pollution, but ignores carbon dioxide, one of the major contributors to global warming, according to the web site of the country's highest legislat ...More

The Centre’s graded response system to tackle air pollution, which proposes emergency measures such as odd-even car rationing scheme and closing schools based on the intensity of the situation, will n ...More

Air pollution has become a major health hazard, killing more than 6.5 million people across the world every year. According to WHO, over 1.5 million people in India lose their lives to air pollution. ...More

PANAJI: The local bodies and environment protection agencies in the state will now have to keep a check on the waste being dumped along roads and impose a fine of Rs 25,000 against people, who are fou ...More

HYDERABAD: The state government is not 'removing' pollution, but `moving' pollution from one place to another, said Babu Rao, (retd) chief scientist, IICT.He was speaking at an event, `Water and Air P ...More