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 …
While the Dieselgate scandal raised awareness of defeat devices—software calibrations that manipulate pollutant emission controls when vehicles are in the real world—third-party evaluation remains difficult because these devices are embedded in sophisticated computer code. To aid in detection by governments and third parties, this new white paper offers a practical, …
Union Budget 2019 India: The electric vehicle (EV) industry has demanded tax holiday for a specific period in the upcoming Budget and proposed a green cess on the polluting vehicles to be used in accelerating electric mobility. In its Budget wish list, Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) said …
Stubble burning, which can lead to heart attacks and respiratory diseases, is practised in many areas of Delhi. Farmers said they were forced to burn the leftover stalk of harvested crops as there was no help from the government to get rid of the same. The Hindu found at least …
An Aerodyne high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS) was deployed along with other online instruments to study the highly time resolved chemistry and sources of submicron aerosols (PM1) at Waliguan (WLG) Baseline Observatory, a high-altitude (3816 m a.s.l.) background station located at the northeast edge of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), …
An atmospheric inversion was performed for the city of Cape Town for the period of March 2012 to June 2013, making use of in situ measurements of CO2 concentrations at temporary measurement sites located to the north-east and south-west of Cape Town. This paper presents results of sensitivity analyses that …
Air quality in Delhi-NCR has improved with the number of “poor” air quality days coming down from 300 in 2014 to 206 in 2018, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday. Speaking at an event to mark the World Environment Day, which was on June 5, the Minister said …
The Centre plans to order taxi aggregators like Uber and Ola to convert 40 per cent of their fleet of cars to electric by April 2026, according to a source and records of government meetings to discuss new rules for clean mobility. Uber and Ola, both backed by Softbank Group, …
The State of India's Environment 2019 in Figures is an exclusive data-driven analysis of major developmental and environmental sectors. Each and every dataset from this periodic publication can be used by the media to investigate compelling stories, ask better questions to policymakers to drive them to come up with better …
Only 6 per cent of children in Africa live in areas where air pollution is reliably measured at ground-level, leaving half a billion children across the continent living in areas with no reliable means of measuring air quality, according to a new UNICEF report released on World Environment Day. The …
M&M;, which has been for long known for its diesel powertrains, is however gradually stepping into the petrol arena and is developing engines for all its models. It has invested over `1,000 crore for transition of its portfolio to BS-VI norms Refuting claims that BS-VI compliant cars will be unaffordable …
On World Environment Day, let’s be inspired to become Earth warriors to combat the pollutants that are affecting the quality of air we breathe. Take a deep breath in and breathe out slowly before you continue to read. According to the World Air Quality Report 2018, nine out of 10 …
Central PCB’s figures put the town next to Tezpur, which is the least polluted town Pathanamthitta is the second least polluted town in India in terms of air pollution, next to Tezpur in Assam, according to the figures of the Central Pollution Control Board for 2018. Alexander George, District Environmental …
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has established Ambient Air Quality Network in Maharashtra covering major cities to comply with the mandate of Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 and to disseminate of air quality prevailing in the state of Maharashtra. This report compiles and presents illustrative statistical data …
The Maldives’ National Action Plan on Air Pollutants is an integrated appraoch to reducing both air pollution and climate forcers. The Maldives’ Ministry of Environment has developed, compiled and quantified for the first time, the reductions in air pollutants for measures originally developed with the aim of reducing greenhouse gases …
Despite marked strides in green energy propped up by policy initiatives, more reforms in the pipeline should be sped up, US-based think-tank IEEFA noted in the study Renewable energy needs a reforms push from the newly elected government to achieve the envisaged target of 275 Gw by 202, a study …
‘Loading, unloading from goods trains affects air quality’ Following a plea seeking remedial action against pollution around a railway godown in U.P.’s Faizabad, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Railway Board to look into the plea and take appropriate action. A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh …
Centre plans for period review ahead of Environment Day Eighty-four out of the 102 cities that have been tasked with reducing toxic particulate matter levels by 20%-30% by 2024 have submitted proposals, C.K. Mishra, Secretary, Union Environment Ministry, said at a press conference. “We haven’t set any annual targets for …
New Delhi: A localised study conducted on a car-free stretch of Ajmal Khan Road in the bustling Karol Bagh market has shown a considerable improvement in air quality. Executive director of research and advocacy at Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Anumita Roychowdhury, who conducted the study, said she compared …
New Delhi: Acknowledging the high level of air pollution in the capital, the environment ministry on Wednesday said the plan to fight the menace was “not totally successful” and sought public participation to make the ongoing effort a success. Speaking at the launch of a theme song on air pollution …
HOUSTON: Harmful particulate matter in the atmosphere may lead to birth defects and even fatalities during pregnancy, according to a study conducted in mice. Researchers at Texas A&M; University in the US examined the adverse health effects of exposure to fine particulate matter consisting of ammonium sulphate commonly found in …
