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‘Horny’ drivers overtake WHO levels, city at risk
Contradictory Noise Standards In India Add To The Clamour Walking on the roads or driving a car in Mumbai can expose residents to noise levels that are well above the standards set by the World Health Organization (WHO) for occupational noise that workers should be subject to. And the law in India seems to be boosting the rising din, thanks to the confusing and contradictory decibel levels set for horns here.
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on States Affected by Air Pollution, 15/12/2017
Question raised in Lok Sabha on States Affected by Air Pollution, 15/12/2017. The Government has notified National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) which lays the norms for air pollutants in the Country.
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Last day to get pollution certificate
Petrol pumps throughout Delhi are gearing up to meet the last-minute rush
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2012 was among 10 warmest years in global record: NASA/NOAA
Last year was among the top 10 warmest in the modern global record, two U.S. climate-watching agencies reported on Tuesday, less than a week after 2012 was declared the hottest ever in the contiguous United
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High blood pressure and long-term exposure to indoor noise and air pollution from road traffic
Traffic noise has been associated with prevalence of hypertension, but reports are inconsistent for blood pressure (BP). To ascertain noise effects and to disentangle them from those suspected to be from
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New tools but PUC test a sham: CSE
Another deadline for that slip of paper and yellow sticker saying
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Air pollution on the rise
As the vehicular pollution is contnuously increasing in the Kathmandu Valley, many organizations have started expressing their deep concern over it. On one hand lack of strict rules have increased
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Life in the concrete jungle
Ecologists are exploring how people, buildings, wildlife and pollution interact in the world’s cities.
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Can use of clean fuel alone check air pollution?
Many of the LPG-kit fitted autorickshaws in Chennai continue to run on petrol. CHENNAI: With Transport Minister K.N.Nehru recently announcing that a deadline would soon be set for all autorickshaws and taxis in the city to switchover to LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), the issue of ambient air quality and the strategy of adopting alternative fuels to make Chennai
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Diesel super' launched in city
IOC, Mangalore division has introduced premium diesel branded as
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Seasonal variability and source apportionment of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the Paris megacity (France)
<p>Within the framework of air quality studies at the megacity scale, highly time-resolved volatile organic compound (C2–C8) measurements were performed in downtown Paris (urban background sites)
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The Thick Haze of Cairo
The air quality in downtown Cairo is more than 10 to 100 times of acceptable world standards. Cairo has a very poor dispersion factor because of lack of rain and its layout of tall buildings and narrow
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MPCB moves to check blaring horns
Pune: A committee set up by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has recommended uniform noise levels for sirens and horns in all vehicles. At the manufacturing stage, they should be 85 decibels
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Air, water and noise pollution is steadily going up, says environment status report
(Don't) take a deep breath, brace yourself. The air we breathe is becoming more and more polluted and that too quite fast given the rising number of construction projects and vehicles on roads. The
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Agartala to be a green city’
Agartala: Plans are afoot to turn Tripura’s capital into a green city by fitting, within two years, thousands of vehicles running on petrol or diesel with CNG kits and providing city households with piped natural gas connections, a senior official said Wednesday. “While issuing vehicle permits, priority is given to those running on CNG (compressed natural gas). This is not only cheaper but also very environment-friendly. Our target is to make the capital Agartala a green city,” Tripura Industrial Development Corporation (TIDC) Chairman Pabitra Kar told IANS.
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Stringent measures to contain air, noise pollution
R. Srikanth Number of registered vehicles in Chennai as on September 1 this year was 31,97,575
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EU to Propose New CO2 Rules for Cars on Jan 24
The European Commission will lay out on Jan. 24 its new strategy for cutting emissions from cars, which is likely to include the option of binding legislation to force carmakers to clean up their
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Latest from Jairam: American lifestyle recipe for disaster
After turning his ire on big cars and five-star residences along the Goa coastline, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has found another target
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding plying and registration of diesel vehicles more than 10 years in NCR, Delhi, 16/09/2016
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik Vs. Union of India & Others dated 16/09/2016 regarding plying and registration of diesel vehicles more than 10 years in NCR,