Selling your old diesel vehicle to a suitable buyer outside Delhi might not be easy. The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday had provided some relief to owners of old diesel cars by allowing them to ...More

Coimbatore: Two weeks after the citizen driven air pollution monitoring exercise was launched in Coimbatore, the readings taken at Hopes College where a sensor was installed has shown that pollution ...More

The heat that saw forest fires sweep through Uttarakhand and damage the already fragile ecosystem of the Himalayas … the heat spikes that caused deaths in Rajasthan and Bihar … the drought that put se ...More

A Chinese environmental group has won a landmark public interest lawsuit against a glass manufacturer, with the firm fined more than $3 million for excessive pollution, a court said. The Jinghua Gr ...More

NEW DELHI: The government today termed as "inappropriate" the recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report which ranked several Indian cities, including Delhi, among top 20 most polluted ones globall ...More

Pollution is a matter of concern in cities and towns and is caused due to introduction of contaminants into the environment viz. air, water and soil that may cause adverse change in ambient conditions ...More

Bengaluru: Mavis Fernandes who was drawn to Cubbon Park's serenity has stopped visiting the lung space. "I would meditate and practise yoga almost every day. But I couldn't concentrate, especially dur ...More

Patna: In the wake of a survey conducted by the World Health Organization in May last year, in which Patna ranked second after Delhi in the list of the most polluted cities, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has ...More

New Delhi, Jul 19 () The government today termed as "inappropriate" the recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report which ranked several Indian cities, including Delhi, among top 20 most polluted on ...More

Air pollution is considered a big environmental health risk by experts globally and data now shows that 22 per cent of the strokes in India can be attributed to ambient air pollution. For the first ti ...More

New Delhi: The government on Tuesday termed as “inappropriate” the recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report which ranked several Indian cities, including Delhi, among top 20 most polluted ones gl ...More

Aurangabad: The National Green Tribunal, Western Zone Bench, Pune has issued notices to the respondents, including the state government, directing them to remain present by the next hearing in the pet ...More

A boom in shipping is aggravating air pollution in China and other nations in east Asia, causing thousands of deaths a year in a region with eight of the world’s 10 biggest container ports, scientists ...More

The government termed as “inappropriate” the recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report which ranked several Indian cities, including Delhi, among top 20 most polluted ones globally, and said the d ...More

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday directed the Delhi government’s transport department to deregister diesel vehicles that are more than 10 years old. The order came after complai ...More

In 2008, after a crackdown on vehicular/industrial pollution to clean up Beijing's air in the run-up to the Olympics, Chinese officials found the average birth weight of newborns improved. While studi ...More

BHOPAL: Strange though it may sound, noise pollution in an upscale Arera Colony is the highest in Bhopal compared to other residential areas, exposing inhabitants of the area to a higher risk of heari ...More

Patna: Troubled with rising traffic snarls, Patnaites find it easy blaming the traffic cops for poor road management, unaware of the fact that about 50% of road congestions occur even in dearth of tra ...More

New Delhi: Ending a nearly four-and-half years’ wait, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has appointed S.P. Singh Parihar, a 1986 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, as a ...More

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court imposed ban on big diesel-powered passenger vehicles in the National Capital Region has hurt commercial vehicle makers as well, and they are unsure when they will have s ...More