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Flawed yet needed

Air quality in Delhi-NCR improves slightly to ‘very poor’

Change in wind direction primarily responsible; situation worsen during weekend

Advice goes unheeded

Hyundai rapped for violating green laws after failing to clean up its act

"Intelligent" adulteration

Mass movement

WHO issues guidelines to improve quality of air

Simply Put: Editing out the problem

Decongesting roads just as vital as introducing EVs to transform India’s transport sector. But who’s listening?

Traffic congestions lead to energy wastage & are a mental health hazard

Stubble burning crisis: Why thermal power plants in Delhi-NCR have been slow in adopting biomass co-firing

Only three plants have reported higher quantities of biomass co-firing since December 2022 till August 2023

Simply Put: G20 summit in pollution capital

MoEFCC finalises emission standards for small boilers; but silent on whether they’re applicable for Delhi-NCR

Techno-centric policies, cleaner fuels needed to shave off industrial emissions

Simply Put: Pollution unchecked

Using green transport can prevent over 38,000 deaths in Africa’s Accra: WHO

Accra is one of the fastest-growing cities in Africa

Massive coal use in Mumbai’s industrial clusters worsening city’s air quality: CSE study

Inaction may lead to Mumbai’s air turning as toxic as Delhi’s, warn experts

Simply put: Pollution during elections

How air pollution is adding to India’s diabetes burden

PM2.5 can enter the bloodstream and cause liver damage, thus enhancing diabetes risk

Pollution in news on May 10

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on pollution

Air pollution grave threat to babies’ brains: UNICEF

Top seven things you should know about this debilitating problem

Not just Delhi, severe air pollution has taken several other cities hostage

Not a single city in northern India meets international air quality standards

10 disturbing trends for Asia and the Pacific

The region is ageing rapidly, has the largest number of threatened species and more

Pollution levels on Diwali night were 'unacceptably high', says CSE

But official ambient monitoring shows slight improvement over last year

Union, Delhi governments urge residents to observe ‘cracker-free’ Diwali

Kejriwal, Javadekar issue appeals to residents of national capital

Trouble in the air

When Gurgaon will mark a 'car-free' day

September 22 is celebrated as a car-free day in more than 200 cities in the world