Phil Dickerson on using alternative techniques for exposure assessment

Phil Dickerson of the US Environmental Protection Agency talks about Next Generation Air Measuring Research Programme at the International …

Anumita Roychowdhury talks about air quality management in Indian cities

Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director, policy and advocacy, Centre for Science and Environment, presents the assessment of air quality …

Delhi-NCR air quality commission: Order, order to new order

As the new ordinance seeks curtailment of judicial intervention, the executive faces the real challenge of pushing difficult and inconvenient …

Stubble fire counts up, Delhi air quality slips to ‘severe’

Stubble burning share of PM2.5 estimated around 42% on November 4 from 5% a day earlier

‘Very poor’ Delhi air to slip further over 2 days

Blame factors: Calm surface wind, low ventilation, local pollution sources

Eight of 10 most polluted cities this winter from UP: CSE

The smaller and upcoming cities were the pollution hotspots 

Air quality in Delhi sees improvement

GRAP measures instrumental in the cleanup, say experts

Japan blames China for smog

Clean vehicles: Study reinforces need to quickly move to EVs

Widespread adoption of electric vehicles with robust power plant emission controls,power sector decarbonisation policies will yield net air …

Patna’s severe air quality due to Ganga’s shifting course: Govt study

Ganga has shifted four kilometres away from the city, leaving an exposed bed of sand, which Himalayan winds are blowing into Patna, it says

Grain warehouse workers prone to respiratory diseases

Beijing experiments with a cars' day off

New projects launched for real-time monitoring of air and water quality

Launched by the Department of Science and Technology and the Corporate Research Council of Intel, the 4 new projects include real-time river …

Thirty new smart cities announced; India to have City Livability Index

800 projects worth Rs 34,000 crore are under various stages of implementation

Air-polluting chemicals travel across continents, pose greater risk of cancer: study

Cancer risks due to exposure to PAH seem four times higher than predicted earlier

Nine out of 10 people breathe poor quality air, says WHO

Low- and middle-income countries are the worst affected regions

Fire fight

Delhi's Bhalswa landfill has been on fire for more than a week 

'Delhi's air was unbreathable on Diwali night'

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 6, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Don’t venture out of homes, use masks if important: Nepal cautions against air pollution

No respite froom air pollution so far; govt had shut educational institutions for five days on March 30

Nepal schools shut: Forest fires, westerly winds from India may have contributed to air pollution

All schools and colleges in Nepal were shut on March 30 due to an alarming spike in air pollution levels 

Ahead of Diwali, air quality in Delhi slips to season's worst

Less wind on Diwali day as well a fog incident the day after will make the situation worse

City of joy is choking

In the 31 months between January 2014 and July 2016, the average monthly count of suspended particulate matter was never below permissible limit …

Air pollution causes premature deaths in India, says study

The Global Burden of Disease estimates rank pollution as the fifth largest killer in India, according to the World Health Organization

Click to test air quality

Computer scientists from Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, USA, launched software that uses the sky’s …