Here’s Why India Is Unable To Meet Air Quality Standards Set By WHO
Despite a growing number of initiatives generating momentum for improving air quality, meeting the World Health Organization’s air quality guidelines...
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Living In The Most Polluted City In The World
Byrnihat, an industrial town on the Assam-Meghalaya border, has been declared the most polluted metropolitan area in the world by...
Air Pollution Deaths Spotlight Need For Health-Based Air Quality Standards
New study estimates at least 33,000 people die from exposure to air pollution in 10 Indian cities on an annual...
Combating Open Waste Burning to Reduce Air Pollution
Air pollution is a major environmental and health concern globally. In India, 1.67 million deaths were attributed to air pollution...
What Can Lichens Tell Us About Atmospheric Pollution?
Lichens are composite organisms born out of a mutualistic alliance between a fungus and a photosynthetic partner, typically algae or...
If Stubble Burning Ended In Dec, Why Is Delhi’s AQI Still ‘Severe’?
Although the days when parali (stubble) burning in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana was blamed solely for rising...
Delhi’s Air Quality Needs Data-Driven Action
The issue of Delhi's poor air quality resurfaces episodically in the public consciousness. It garners attention on social media, in...
Could Airshed Management Be The Solution To India’s Pollution Woes?
India’s flagship programme to reduce air pollution has seen slow progress, spurring discussions on airshed-level management for air pollution control....
Green Credits Could Spur Cities To Take Local Need-Based Climate Action
The draft Green Credit Programme Rules notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) is part of...
MP 2nd In Stubble Burning, Farmers Unaware Of Govt Schemes
Madhya Pradesh ranks second in the country in terms of wheat production, which is a matter of pride for the...
Paradise Polluted: Kashmir’s Poor Air Quality Poses Health Risks
It was a foggy afternoon in December, and people – young and old – were walking uphill to reach the...
Noxious Air Sinks Life Expectancy By 10 Years, Yet No Action Plan
(Source: IANS) India is the world's second most polluted country. Air pollution shortens the average life expectancy in the country...
Stubble Burning Is Back, Smothering The North
Even as authorities claim that they are all set to deal with what is now an annual public health crisis,...
Tackling Air Pollution At A Global Scale
In the 1960s, scientists across Europe began to notice that the rain was unusually acidic, denuding forests and poisoning lakes....
Air Quality Management: India Needs To Train 10 Lakh People
India needs to train at least 10 lakh people in the next five years for air quality management, according to...
Air Pollution Reducing Life Expectancy By 5 Yrs In India: Study
Air pollution is the greatest threat to human health in India and the average Indian resident is set to lose...
EPI: India Ranked Lowest Among 180 Countries
India has been placed at the bottom on a list of 180 countries judged for their environmental performances by US-based...
Delhi Is Most Polluted Capital In The World
Delhi was found to be the most polluted capital in the world for the fourth consecutive year in 2021 and...
Why Don’t India’s Air Pollution Policies Work?
For the fourth year in a row, Delhi has topped a list of the world’s most polluted capitals. Air pollution...
Air Quality Deteriorates In North, Central India
After the rampant cracker bursting on Diwali despite restrictions in place, air quality deteriorated in many parts of north and...
Delhi Wakes Up To ‘Hazardous’ Air Quality, Day After Diwali
The air quality in Delhi's Janpath has reached the 'hazardous' category on Friday (November 5) morning, following the festival of...
Air Pollution Adds To India’s Pandemic Pain
Anju Verma tested positive for the coronavirus in September 2020, along with the rest of her family. With chronic asthma...
Fires Ravage Himalayan Forests, Threatening Health & Biodiversity
Wildfires described as “the worst in a decade” have engulfed Himalayan mountain states in a thick haze and killed at...
New Delhi Is World’s Most Polluted Capital For 3rd Straight Year
New Delhi was the world’s most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to IQAir, a Swiss...
Pollution Deaths In India Rose To 1.67 Mn in 2019
Toxic air killed more people in India in 2019 than in 2017, The Lancet said in a report shared by...
