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 …
GREATER NOIDA: A team of researchers from the Delhi-based research and advocacy organization Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) visited the Greater Noida villages of Sadopur, Bisnoli and Khera Dharampur in the Chhapraula area to investigate the causes behind an apparent rise in cancer incidents in the area over the …
NEW DELHI: Environmental activists and experts have welcomed National Green Tribunal's directions to deal with air pollution in the city but said the efforts of the government should be more focused on "visibly polluting" private vehicles and also upgrading of public transport infrastructure in the city so that people are …
Bengaluru: Those brightly-coloured, cute toys that all little kids love, can be harmful to their health, especially since many chew om them for a long time. A recent study done by The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which is a public interest research and advocacy organisation, found that there …
Our city has become so polluted that even a morning walk can make you very ill. Urgent steps like moving to Euro 5 norms and making diesel less attractive are needed but government is in no hurry Your early morning routine of a walk and workout out doors this winter …
Our city has become so polluted that even a morning walk can make you very ill. Urgent steps like moving to Euro 5 norms and making diesel less attractive are needed but government is in no hurry Your early morning routine of a walk and workout out doors this winter …
Decades of strip mining have left this town in the heart of India's coal fields a fiery moonscape, with mountains of black slag, sulfurous air and sickened residents. But rather than reclaim these hills or rethink their exploitation, the government is digging deeper in a coal rush that could push …
While the strengthening of the enforcement of existing PUC norms has been much needed for decades in Delhi, experts said it addresses only half the problem. While PUC norms are concerned with pollution levels of in-use vehicles, emission norms for newly manufactured vehicles continue to be at least nine years …
In my previous article I wrote that India should demand an ambitious climate-change deal, because we need the world to stay safe-below the guardrail of two degrees Celsius rise in temperature. I also said that for the deal to be effective, it is necessary to ensure that every country has …
Ever wondered how poor is the air we are breathing? A comparison of cities across the globe reveals the capital's dismal condition. Around 4pm (IST) on Tuesday, Delhi's Anand Vihar had an air quality index (AQI) of 399 which falls in the hazardous category. At the same time, Beijing recorded …
Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), which recently reviewed the Delhi government's air pollution action plan, has found that the government is not equipped to deal with the city's severe air pollution. EPCA has now asked it to take three emergency steps to battle smog this winter—increase public transport vehicles, especially …
PUNE: India is locked in a frenzy of construction to meet the demand for homes, offices, and shops. A staggering two-third of buildings that will stand in India in 2030 are yet to be built. Unless policies minimize resource guzzling and wastes with appropriate architectural design, building material, and operational …
Council to focus on action for assessment, adaptation & mitigation of climate change Barely three weeks before crucial negotiations in Lima, the government has reconstituted the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change, reducing its size and dropping members, including sole industry representative Ratan Tata and Centre for Science and Environment …
‘Particulate matter in air not within safe limits’ If you have been battling a nagging cough/cold or worse an upper respiratory tract infection this season, the city’s poor air quality could be the culprit. Official data has revealed that since the onset of winter, the city has not managed to …
Hyderabad: Particulate matter pollution has risen almost three times faster than previously expected in Hyderabad. Though faring better than cities like Delhi, where particulate matter pollution has risen by an astronomical four times, the rise in the city is still among the highest in the world. The average annual concentrations …
The current haze-like condition in Delhi could be linked to agricultural waste being burnt up north in Punjab and Haryana. Images released by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration from its moderate resolution imaging spectro-radiometer (MODIS)'s aqua-satellite suggest a thick blanket of aerosols lying over northern Indian states …
India's democratic depth was evident this past week as the entire establishment, left and right, came together to congratulate Kailash Satyarthi for his Nobel. All of them, from Narendra Modi on, did so without any qualification. But why should this be unusual? Shouldn't our nation celebrate a rare Nobel? It …
Thick smoke hung over New Delhi this week as millions lit firecrackers to mark the Diwali festival, but calls for a boycott highlighted growing concerns over air quality in one of the world's most polluted cities. Pollution in the Indian capital reached "severe" levels on Friday, the day after Diwali, …
“Many don’t qualify even for one-star label under BEE programme” Green-rated buildings are falling below the minimum benchmarks of their official star rating by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), says a report — “Building sense beyond the green façade of sustainable habitat” — by the Centre for Science and …
One item on the agenda of the much-discussed Narendra Modi-Barack Obama meeting that has Indian commentators flummoxed is hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The joint statement issued after the meeting of the two heads of states says rather ambiguously that the two sides agreed to cooperate on "next steps to tackle the challenge …
In late August, India's environment ministry rejected a proposal to build what would be the country's largest hydropower plant in a remote and pristine part of the country's northeast because of the potential damage to an area rich in biodiversity. Less than a month later and, according to two environment …
