Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The release of the report, entitled Broken Promises: the Failure of the Highveld Priority Area, coincided with a peaceful protest at the Department of Environmental Affairs annual Air Quality Lekgotla in Woodmead by people who live and work in areas most effected. People on the Highveld are dying prematurely and …
Experimental evidence and preliminary clinical evidence suggest that environmental air pollution adversely effects kidney health. Previous work has examined the association between fine particulate matter and risk of kidney disease; however, the association between ambient coarse particulate matter (PM10; ≤10 µm in aerodynamic diameter), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and carbon monoxide …
Exposure to fine particles is measured using metrics such as mass concentration (MC), number concentration (NC) and surface area concentration (SAC). This study aims to find correlation between the three metrics in outdoor environments of a city – city periphery, city centre and on-road. Simultaneous real-time mass, number and surface …
This briefing note examines the implications of the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Summit on the Environment (the Summit) held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 5-8 September 2017 on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), air pollution, and resource efficiency. The Summit represented a notable first-time effort to bring together the Ministerial Conference on Environment …
Under the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000, firecrackers are recognised as one of the sources contributing to ambient noise in public places and some restrictions on their use have also been laid down. Firecrackers (patakas) - status of pollution abatement measures is CPCB's first report containing information on …
The Survey, “A Hazy View” posed a wide range of questions on the subject of air pollution awareness, perceptions and attitudes across 11 Indian cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Kanpur, Patna, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Gwalior, Kolkata, Varanasi and Lucknow. Nationally, the respondents tend to come from an educated background and are …
Farmers of 65 villages came together and resolved to burn paddy stubble in the fields despite the Punjab government's directive against it, in light of rising pollution levels. Farmers from 65 villages in the Banaga sub-division of Nawanshahr met on Monday and decided to collectively burn stubble of harvested paddy …
Claiming that the Punjab Government has come out with an elaborate action plan to curb the deadly menace of stubble burning across the State through a multi-pronged approach, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday made a strong appeal to the farmers to abstain from the harmful practice. The plan …
NEW DELHI: Delhi environment minister Imran Hussain has directed the environment department and Delhi Pollution Control Committee to complete the installation of 20 new air quality monitoring stations ahead of Diwali to efficiently measure winter air quality. The directions came in a meeting with senior DPCC and environment department officials …
Poor enforcement of pollution checking norms allow pollution checking centres to manipulate the emission reports that has led to further deterioration of ambient air in summer capital here. An official at Pollution Control Board (PCB) said the inspection, which their department carried, revealed half the numbers of existing checking outlets …
20 new ambient air quality monitoring stations likely to start functioning by October-end Delhi will be heading into winter 2017 better equipped than ever before when it comes to air pollution data, with 20 new ambient air quality monitoring stations likely to start functioning by the end of October. After …
PANJIM: In a bid to minimise air and noise pollution during the Diwali season, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has directed Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) to conduct a mass awareness campaign across the State to reduce bursting of fire crackers during the festival. The Board has also been …
Farmers yet to shun stubble burning Paddy, the key kharif crop, is set to be harvested next month in Punjab. However, the problem of smog across the region during winter is unlikely to change as farmers are unwilling to shun the practice of stubble burning. The perennial problem of stubble …
An estimated 4.5 billion people are currently exposed to particulate matter (PM) levels at least twice the concentration that the WHO considers safe. Existing evidence linking health to air pollution is largely based on populations exposed to only modest levels of PM and almost entirely composed of observational studies, which …
The much talked about Odd-Even road rationing system is all set to return to the Capital this winter, when the graded response action plan (GRAP) to curb air pollution rolls out on October 15. The plan also proposes hiking the parking fee at congested areas by three to four times. …
The Bhartiya Kisan Union (Kadian) has asked the Punjab government to either provide financial compensation or machinery to the farmers as per directions of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to mix crop residue in soil or they would continue with stubble burning. The farm organisation on Monday accused the state …
Farmers in Punjab have started using paddy stubble to generate electricity through biomass machines The capital may not witness smoggy mornings this winter as many farmers in the neighbouring state of Punjab have stopped burning paddy stubble and are using it to generate electricity with the help of biomass machines, …
Most vehicles in the city clear the pollution test with flying colours. It is not just because of the proper maintenance of the vehicles by owners but also due to fraud played by the pollution testing centres. Taking advantage of poor monitoring by the state transport department, many testing centres …
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s eastern province of Shandong will ban the use of diesel trucks to transport coal from ports around the Bohai Sea starting on Oct. 1, according to a report by state news agency Xinhua on Monday, citing a statement from local authorities. Companies operating ports on the …
The China-based auto and battery manufacturer BYD is expecting that China’s shift to so-called “new energy vehicles” — battery electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, etc. — will be completed by the year 2030, according to recent reports. In other words, BYD is expecting it to take just over a …
