Noida: A bonfire of dried leaves, twigs and tree branches continues to rage on a stretch leading up to the Okhla Bird Sanctuary (OBS), a few steps away from its entrance at the Noida end, despite a st ...More

Activists have written to Delhi lieutenant-governor Najeeb Jung and chief minister Arvind Kejriwal against east civic body’s proposed 150-acre landfill site on Yamuna floodplain. There are severe con ...More

NEW DELHI: Justifying setting up of the waste-to-energy plant in Okhla here, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Friday told the National Green Tribunal that emissions from the incineration ...More

It’s the traffic that’s mainly responsible, not farmers in Haryana and Punjab burning crop stubble It is no surprise that resource-poor farmers become convenient scapegoats for whatever and whenever ...More

NEW DELHI: The cost of serious health consequences from Particulate Matter pollution is estimated to be around 3 per cent of India's GDP, according to a Health Ministry statement in Lok Sabha today. ...More

According to WHO Study Report, 2014, Delhi is the most polluted city in the world when it comes to air quality. Needless to say, the air pollution level in Delhi remains very high round the year (much ...More

Paris: Paris was smothered on Wednesday by its worst winter pollution in a decade, with commuters enjoying free public transport and half of all cars ordered off the road to try to clear the air. The ...More

Initiative will consider proposals from academic and research institutions and provide aid to develop technology NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 8: The Department of Science and Technology (DST) and technolog ...More

THREE DAYS ago, Paris implemented a series of measures, including the odd-even road-rationing scheme, as pollution levels rose, with the concentration of Particulate Matter 10 (PM 10) touching 95 micr ...More

In the first week of November this year, the capital’s 24-hour average air pollution — 900micrograms per cubic meter of particulate matter finer than 2.5 micrometers — was 40 times higher than the Wor ...More

Stone crusher units are responsible for enhancing air pollution in the city. Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) had carried out an inspection of the stone crusher units. From the report of ...More

The onset of winter has been terrible for 30-year-old Ashish Singh. Over the last few days, he has been coughing so badly that blood is coming out from his saliva. Singh claims that he faces this horr ...More

Paris choked on Wednesday under its worst winter pollution in a decade, with commuters enjoying free public transport and half of the cars ordered off the road in an effort clear the air. The surge i ...More

GURGAON: The city's air quality deteriorated alarmingly on Wednesday, with pollution levels crossing the 400 mark. In fact, Gurgaon has been witnessing a seven-fold increase in the concentration of PM ...More

Delhi’s air quality has taken a turn for the worse, yet again. But now, thanks to the Supreme Court’s efforts, the National Capital Region will have an action plan: a series of measures that clearly d ...More

New Delhi: Observing that industrial units operating in residential areas are one of the major contributors to air pollution in Delhi, the National Green Tribunal has issued directions to the Delhi Po ...More

New Delhi, Dec 6 (PTI) Industrial units operating in residential areas are one of the major contributors to air pollution in Delhi, the National Green Tribunal has said while directing Delhi Pollution ...More

New Delhi: Observing that industrial units operating in residential areas are one of the major contributors to air pollution in Delhi, the National Green Tribunal has issued directions to the Delhi Po ...More

LUCKNOW: Was it Delhi's toxic air that eroded the Ashoka pillar? The possibility is being explored by experts at the Archaeological Survey of Indiawhich has taken note of a TOI report highlighting dam ...More

The Supreme Court on 3 December 2016 approved Graded Response Action Plan of the Union Government to deal with the different levels of pollution in Delhi-NCR region. The court also directed the Ce ...More