Black carbon harms health, and traps heat, melts snow and disturbs rain patterns for as long as it is airborne. While long-lived carbon dioxide (CO2 ) needs fast-tracked action to stabilize global temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees Celsius, black carbon needs elimination to contain short-term warming spikes and to …
Dense fog continued to ruin travel plans in North India on Sunday with over 100 flights and 60 North-bound trains getting delayed in Delhi alone. The intensity of fog is set to increase across North India in the coming few days. The India Meteorological Department has issued a warning for …
I write this with considerable impatience and one question. Do we really have the time to waste on controversies like what ancient India did or did not achieve by way of scientific discoveries? This is when there is the huge unfinished agenda to use the best of science to tackle …
A research and advocacy group has accused the Indian government of protecting the interests of the automobile lobby at the cost of public health. In reply to a notice from the apex court on pollution levels, the Indian environment ministry has claimed pollution in the air is mostly due to …
With diesel vehicles being biggest source of air pollution in Delhi, noted environmentalist Sunita Narain Wednesday said there was a need to heavily tax such vehicles in the national capital. With crude oil prices fallen below USD 50 per barrel, now is the right time for the government to implement …
With diesel vehicles being biggest source of air pollution in Delhi, noted environmentalist Sunita Narain today said there was a need to heavily tax such vehicles in the national capital. With crude oil prices fallen below USD 50 per barrel, now is the right time for the government to implement …
Environment minister Prakash Javadekar has made it clear that changes to environment and forest-related laws will not be introduced in the form of ordinances. The minister said that he hoped to have the draft amendments ready for introduction in the forthcoming Budget session of Parliament. "We are now studying the …
The government's submission before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the major source of pollution in the capital was dust particles, and not vehicular emissions was dismissed on Thursday by environmental activists as ridiculous, with some even questioning the intent behind the environment ministry's stand. The ministry of environment and …
दिल्ली दुनिया के सबसे प्रदूषित शहरों में शुमार है। वह दिन दूर नहीं, जब यह जगह रहने लायक ही न बचे। हमें इसे रोकना है। एनबीटी आज से शुरू कर रहा है नई पहल जिसमें कोशिश होगी कि पॉल्यूशन से निबटने के उपायों की जानकारी हम आप तक पहुंचाएं : …
Infectious diseases like Ebola and KFD are on the rise thanks to global warming and environmental degradation.(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A viral haemorrhagic disease similar to Ebola and dengue but not as fatal, is on the rise in parts of India. The Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) or …
The easiest way to clear air pollution is to not know how bad it is The easiest way to clear air pollution is to not know how bad it is. This is what India practices - in most parts of the country. There is virtually no equipment to monitor the …
A month after the environmental NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) collected water samples from various spots in six villages around Greater Noida's Chhapraula area to probe if there was a connection between ground water contamination and rising incidence of cancer in the region, researchers said on Sunday their …
NEW DELHI: 2014 saw India playing a crucial role in protecting the interests of developing nations at the UN climate talks in Lima where negotiators prepared a way for a new ambitious and binding deal to be signed in Paris next year to combat global warming. During the year, the …
GURGAON: Delhi may have been in the spotlight for being the world's most polluted city, as per a recent urban air quality database released by the World Health Organisation but Gurgaon is definitely no better. A recent study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), using a portable air …
Delhi has lost the gains it made through environment-friendly reforms in the early 2000s, and air quality is now worse than before, new data shows. For the long-term, vehicular emission standards needed to be upgraded and the use of cars disincentivised, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has recommended. …
Early on November 13, Delhi Environment Pollution Authority chief Bhure Lal left from his residence in Lutyens’ Delhi for his daily walk at Lodhi Gardens, his personal air pollution monitor attached. The monitor read: 1,196 microgramme per cubic metres. He was breathing 20 times the recommended safe standard for particulate …
Despite vast improvement in legislations for chemical industrial disasters and workers safety three decades after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, there is an urgent need to strengthen institutions, tools of compliance, monitoring and a strict corporate liability regime, says a book on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. ‘Bhopal Gas Tragedy: After 30 …
In 1995, India’s Parliament passed the National Environment Tribunal Act. The law was to provide compensation to victims of environmental accidents. It was to ensure special courts quickly decided damage, liability and compensation caused by industrial disasters — not only to people but to the environment also. It was passed …
Thirty years after India’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, contamination owing to the leakage of poisonous gas from the Union Carbide pesticide factory continues to affect residents. The leak of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984, killed thousands of people in …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) welcomed the National Green Tribunal's judgement to ban more than 15-year-old vehicles from Delhi roads with some circumspection. In a release, reacting to the NGT's order on Wednesday, CSE said, it "welcomed the 14-point action agenda directed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) …
Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar rolls out 14-point action plan to ensure that the capital of India is better managed Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not have had this in mind when he launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or cleanliness drive, but the National Green Tribunal has stepped in to address …
