Delhi’s Tree Authority is planning a tree adoption policy as part of its efforts to preserve the trees of the…
Between the record-breaking global heat and extreme downpours, it’s hard to ignore that something unusual is going on with the…
In a bid to stop stubble burning, the Gurdaspur district administration in Punjab has implemented a novel idea. Now, those…
Every year during the winter season, air quality across India deteriorates to hazardous levels. The combination of low temperatures and…
India’s flagship programme to reduce air pollution has seen slow progress, spurring discussions on airshed-level management for air pollution control.…
Rohit Vishwas, 28, started working as a delivery person for a grocery delivery app in 2021 after he lost his…
For the past few decades, crop residue burning has been the grim news story of the state of Punjab. The…
A two-kilometre detour from the six-lane national highway 152-D (Narnaul-Ambala), towards the interior villages in Haryana, where stone-crushing units are…
Madhya Pradesh ranks second in the country in terms of wheat production, which is a matter of pride for the…
The announcement from India’s key scientific agency in February this year that it had found “inferred sources” of 5.9 million…
Source: PTI An estimated 13.4 million babies were born preterm in 2020, with 45 per cent of them being born…
Source: PTI Mothers in several countries, including India, staged protests on Saturday under the banner of “Mothers’ Rebellion for Climate…
Source: PTI An estimated 13.4 million babies were born preterm in 2020, with 45 per cent of them being born…
Ten state pollution control boards across the Indo-Gangetic Plain, which faces severe air pollution, have a surplus of funds each…
Dumbarpath is a tribal village in Gumla district of Jharkhand, a primary area of bauxite mining in India. Mining activities…
At first glance, remote communities in Outback Australia and villages in India don’t have much in common. Look closer, however,…
On March 2, 25-ft-high ‘hills’ of garbage, extending over 40 acres at the Brahmapuram waste plant in Kochi caught fire,…
Source: PTI Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur have found increasing atmospheric pollution in rural India using Nitrogen…
The sister cities of Lahore, in Pakistan, and New Delhi, in India, share many things – food, culture, and now…
At a recent meeting for the launch of a new World Bank report on air pollution, held in Kathmandu, Pema…
It was a foggy afternoon in December, and people – young and old – were walking uphill to reach the…
Infrastructure development continued on a grand scale and at a rapid pace in South Asia and the Himalayas in 2022,…
(Source: PTI) Exposure to traffic related air pollution is associated with an increased risk of multiple long-term physical and mental…
In 2019, air pollution in India caused the premature deaths of more than a million people. That same year, the…
(Source: PTI) A large number of high-decibel firecrackers thundered throughout Diwali night on Monday as people in Delhi flouted the…
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