AGRA: Following the Supreme Court's direction to reduce pollution near Taj Mahal, the Agra authorities have finalized a plan to promote electric crematorium, besides installing a 'green' system to red ...More

Population levels in Delhi are finally declining after decades as people are leaving the city due to dangerous levels of pollution and high crime levels, the Delhi High Court said today. It also said ...More

BENGALURU: Smoke-spewing vehicles are largely to blame for the toxic air we breathe. A study has found that 36.3% of the diesel vehicles in the city and 12.6% run on petrol exceed the national limit f ...More

Experts from various fields have urged people to plant more trees and adopt anti-pollution measures after a US embassy report said there was an increase in the concentration of air pollution in many c ...More

GHAZIABAD: Work on installing an online automatic ambient air quality monitoring system in the city will begin shortly. According to district pollution boardofficials, Sahibabad industrial area has be ...More

So what is the contribution of vehicular emissions to the air pollution in city? Quite high, if one has to go by a recent study which says that there are 36.3% diesel vehicles and 12.6 % petrol vehicl ...More

Pollution Board to propose a ban on 15-year-old and two-stroke vehicles in the city More than a third of the diesel vehicles plying in the city pollute beyond acceptable standards, reveals a Karnatak ...More

GUWAHATI: For the first time in the city, a project has been initiated to study the emission of black carbon particles by vehicles and their impact on public health and the local environment. Black ...More

'Clean Air India Movement (CLAIM)', said to be India's largest anti-pollution campaign, on Tuesday bagged the 'Energy and Environment Foundation Global Award 2016' for efforts to tackle the problem of ...More

GAINESVILLE: The drier, warmer autumn weather that's becoming more common due to climate change may extend summer smog well into the fall in the Southeastern US in the years ahead, according to a stud ...More

Data compiled by the Air Quality Monitoring and Research Laboratory and Environment Status Report (2015-16) reveals chocking facts about city’s air as observed between December 2015 and March 2016. A ...More

Chembur, Ghatkopar and Mankhurd residents breathe the city’s worst air, with frequent fires at the Deonar and Mulund dumping grounds pushing air pollution to dangerously high levels. Data on air qual ...More

Wearing inexpensive cloth masks in the hope of reducing exposure to air pollution may be of only a little benefit and give you a false sense of security, especially in highly polluted areas, new resea ...More

A recent study by environmental health scientists has revealed that inexpensive cloth masks worn by people who hope to reduce their exposure to air pollution vary widely in effectiveness and could be ...More

You need to protect yourself against pollution more adequately. Inexpensive cloth masks commonly used by people in India and China to reduce exposure to air pollution may not be effective and could be ...More

Wearing inexpensive cloth masks in the hope of reducing exposure to air pollution may be of only a little benefit and give you a false sense of security, especially in highly polluted areas, new resea ...More

Chembur, Ghatkopar and Mankhurd residents breathe the city’s worst air, with frequent fires at the Deonar and Mulund dumping grounds pushing air pollution to dangerously high levels. Data on air qual ...More

Wearing inexpensive cloth masks in the hope of reducing exposure to air pollution may be of only a little benefit and give you a false sense of security, especially in highly polluted areas, new resea ...More

RAIPUR: Aiming at conservation of environment, heavy industries of power, aluminium, steel and 17 other industries in and around the state capital have been equipped with online pollution monitoring s ...More

While the worsening air pollution in the country's metro cities has been under scrutiny of courts and Centre, the air quality across tier-II or million plus cities is equally bad. People in 41 Indian ...More