Paddy straw burning in Punjab and Haryana is a major reason behind the alarming spike in air pollution levels in the national capital in October and...
Earlier this week, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had held meetings with various farmer bodies and assured that the government was making efforts for the management...
New Delhi: Delhi’s air quality turned poor on Dussehra, though the early warning system of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology had predicted moderate to satisfactory...
The anti-dust campaign will be run in Delhi till November 6. Environment Minister Gopal Rai said it was compulsory for all construction sites to follow all...
The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) ordered implementation of all actions as envisaged under Stage I of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) - 'Poor'...
The study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, estimated air pollution exposure levels for each participant based on their residential addresses
Cities that showed overall improvement in PM 10 concentration since 2017 include Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, among others
The researchers of the Colorado State University (CSU) found that cooking activities produced larger amounts of potentially toxic compounds, similar to some seen in wildfire smoke
Aerosols impacts human health, agricultural and economic productivity in unique global patterns when compared with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which are the focus of efforts to...
Graded Response Action Plan -- a set of anti-air pollution measures followed according to the severity of the situation -- will come into force 15 days...
Last year, the Delhi government announced a complete ban on firecrackers till January 1, 2022. It also ran an aggressive campaign, involving 15 special teams at...
The Delhi government had ordered a complete ban on the sale and bursting of firecrackers in the national capital from September 28 last year to January...
