Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
Measuring air quality: Learning health impacts - a presentation by Anumita Roychowdhury at STEPPING TOGETHER: A Conclave of Changemakers for Clean Air and Sustainable Mobility held in New Delhi from September 26-27, 2013.
Conclave of change makers for clean air and sustainable mobility - a presentation by Dr. B. Nagappa at STEPPING TOGETHER: A Conclave of Changemakers for Clean Air and Sustainable Mobility held in New Delhi from September 26-27, 2013.
CSE is organising a unique event to celebrate positive action on sustainable mobility in Indian cities. We are looking forward to engage in dialogue with changemakers in different cities of India who have made a difference to mobility and air quality related concerns. This is an occasion to acknowledge positive …
Actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions often reduce co-emitted air pollutants, bringing co-benefits for air quality and human health. Past studies typically evaluated near-term and local co-benefits, neglecting the long-range transport of air pollutants long-term demographic changes, and the influence of climate change on air quality. Here we simulate …
New Delhi: Delhi’s not the only culprit. A recent study by Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, has found that the city’s emissions, though considerable, are not alone responsible for the sudden peaks in particulate matter (PM 10) levels in it. Far-off sources in north India or even beyond India (within …
This special package consists of selected documents, reports and studies on air quality and urban mobility in Delhi. See also Delhi http://www.environmentportal.in/category/4546/thesaurus/delhi/ Air Pollution http://www.environmentportal.in/category/36/thesaurus/air-pollution/
Beijing Monday rolled out a slew of measures to curb industrial pollution amid latest efforts to improve the city's air quality. Unveiling a five-year clean air action plan (2013-2017), the Beijing municipal government stated that 1,200 polluting companies will be ordered to upgrade or close parts or all of their …
New Delhi: In another proof that worsening air quality in Indian cities is affecting people’s health, a study has found that Indians have 30% lower lung function as compared to Europeans. Things could get worse if immediate steps are not taken to curb vehicular emission, doctors warned. The study was …
The radiative effects of black carbon (BC) aerosols over New Delhi, the capital city of India, for the period August 2010–July 2011, have been investigated using Santa Barbara DISTORT Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (SBDART) model in the present paper. The monthly mean BC concentrations in Delhi, an urban location, vary in …
China is the world’s worst polluter but largest investor in green energy. Its rise will have as big an impact on the environment as on the world economy or politics. All industrial nations one day hit an environmental turning-point, an event that dramatises to the population the ecological consequences of …
Mumbai’s air quality has “improved marginally” from the past but still remains worryingly poor all year round, according to an annual environmental report. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Environment Status Report 2012-13 shows that Maravli in Chembur continues to be the city’s most polluted place, followed variously by Andheri and Bhandup. …
About 70- 80 per cent of over seven lakh automobile that ply on city streets, are faulty and emit black smoke in excess of the permissible limit. Black smoke is primarily unburned carbon that is turned into small particles caused by over loading and faulty condition of the engines of …
The Supreme Court today sought the Centre’s response to a PIL seeking abolition of diesel subsidy and creation of an environmental police department to crack down on polluting vehicles as part of measures to improve the air quality in cities across the country which have become “virtual gas chambers.” A …
The Supreme Court on Monday sought a reply from the Centre on a PIL seeking abolition of diesel subsidy and creation of an environmental police department to crack down on polluting vehicles as part of measures to improve the air quality in cities across the country. Besides, the PIL had …
The Supreme Court on Monday sought response of the Centre on a PIL that showed Delhi’s air contains critical levels of particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide, estimated by the WHO to be more than 30 times of the permissible global standards. Issuing notice to the Centre and Central …
Forest fires bring record levels of air pollution; and the end is not in sight. Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way …
Pollutant levels skyrocket to three times the permissible limit The deadliest pollutant in Bangalore’s air, the Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM) has gone up to an astounding 200 to 300 per cent of the permissible limits. Latest (2012-13) figures disclosed by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) show that …
Noise Level Indicates Rising Decibels Too Lucknow: Air pollution in Lucknow has increased this year. If pre-monsoon assessment of the ambient air quality of Lucknow, released by the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research on World Environment Day is any indication, the concentration of gaseous pollutants–sulphur dioxide (SO2) and oxides of …
Charbagh is the most polluted area in Lucknow, says a report published by Indian Institute of Toxicology Research on Wednesday to coincide with the World Environment Day. The study, carried out in nine locations of the state capital, showed Charbagh having the highest average level of respirable particulate matter (RSPM), …
Few studies have investigated the independent health effects of different size fractions of particulate matter (PM), in multiple locations, especially in Europe. The researchers estimated the short-term effects of PM with aerodynamic diameter less than 10μm (PM10), less than 2.5μm (PM2.5), and between 2.5 and 10μm (PM2.5-10) on all-cause, cardiovascular …
