The Delhi government issued a warning for a “critically polluted period ahead” as the capital on Thursday recorded its worst air quality since February. The National Air Quality Index showed that pol ...More

Early morning smog near the India Gate on Thursday.Photo: V. Sudershan The AamAadmi Party (AAP) government on Thursday said it had set in motion the process for installation of Radio Frequency Iden ...More

New Delhi: Any kind of rapprochement – however unlikely – between Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal could come, literally, as a breath of fresh air for Delhiites. A N ...More

Concentration levels of harmful particulate matter were on average three times the standards. With days to go before Diwali, when pollution levels usually peak due to firecracker use, the air quality ...More

The “abnormal” pollution readings, collected in the ancient city of Xi’an, alerted environment protection authorities, resulting in a police investigation Police have arrested officials in charge of ...More

China aims to create a comprehensive environmental monitoring system by 2030 in its efforts to boost citizens' health and raise life expectancy, the government has said. Pollution has been identified ...More

When IIT-Delhi alumna Namita Gupta decided to move to Delhi with her family from the US in 2014, she was shocked. The World Health Organization (WHO) had recently dubbed Delhi the world’s most pollute ...More

Diwali is three days away and the air quality level is already deteriorating. People in Delhi inhaled “very poor” air on Wednesday morning, a dangerous marker in the air quality standard that could m ...More

Long-term exposure to urban air pollution incrementally increases the risk of high blood pressure, according to a study released Tuesday of more than 41,000 European city-dwellers. Constant noise pol ...More

Even as testing of samples of firecrackers in Mumbai showed a decline in noise levels as compared to previous years, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) officials said there has been a rise ...More

INDORE: Ahead of Diwali, the regional Pollution Control Board (PCB) has started monitoring air and noise pollution levels in the city. The drive started this week will extend till October 30. The dep ...More

The Public Works Department (PWD) and Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Monday presided over the first meeting of an inter-ministerial task force constituted to tackle air pollution and solid waste ma ...More

Diwali is still round the corner but the air pollution levels in the national capital have already started showing an upward trend. On Monday, Delhiites woke up to a hazy morning with fine particulat ...More

Beijing, Oct 25 (PTI) China will continue to restrict the number of new cars in Beijing until 2020 to 6.3 million to reduce congestion on roads and fight pollution, but that still will be an addition ...More

American astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year watching the earth from the space. The clouds of pollution over India and China shocked him. For a single day last summer, Kelly could see the eastern part ...More

INDORE: A proposal to install air monitoring stations at 3 new locations in Indore has been sent to the Central Pollution Control Board. The proposal has been sent with an aim to expand the ambit for ...More

HARIDWAR: The number of vehicles registered annually on the roads of Haridwar have increased by over 60 per cent in the last seven years, and are one of the major contributing factors of rising air po ...More

Apart from stubble burning by neighbouring states, the Capital has to battle pollution from millions of vehicles, construction and road dust. The problem becomes graver during winters. “With winter a ...More

The snake tablet cracker emits the highest amount of PM2.5 (particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter) amid popular firecrackers, perhaps the first-ever such study has shown. As per the fi ...More

NEW DELHI: Delhi, laboring under the label of being the world's most polluted city, is trying something new to help clean up its air. A smartphone application that allows citizens to report the pre ...More