Lateral Thoughts: Air pollution will reduce only through good governance
Air pollution has been plaguing Delhi for 4 decades; the reasons are well known and there is adequate data to pin responsibilities
Yes, Delhi Metro is more unaffordable than the New York City Subway
My own experience shows that the Delhi Metro pinches the minimum survival expense of a well-off Delhite at least twice as hard as the NYC subway …
The fault in our stars
ISEER, the new system of rating and labeling ACs that began this year, seems designed to serve industry interest rather than consumer or climate …
A bolt from the blue
If critical air traffic control operations are not beefed up by adequate and modern infrastructure, nightmare is bound to happen in the Indian …
Battling blaze up there
Communication is vital to aerial fire-fighting. A project in the US aims at making it easier for pilots with the help of the advanced navigation …
Reclaiming clean air
An emissions trading programme, introduced in the US to provide incentives to companies for emission control, could be an effective instrument in …
Vehicle scrappage announced in Budget 2021-22 a welcome measure
It will help reduce vehicular pollution in urban areas, besides boosting the sale of newer vehicles, including electric ones
Racing towards zero emissions
Anumita Roychowdhury, CSE’s executive director-research and advocacy, talks cars, mobility, emissions and much more with Lucas di Grassi, …
First global map of atmospheric ammonia distribution published
Researchers also found that past assumptions about atmospheric ammonia levels are largely inaccurate and that the levels are much higher than …
‘Improving efficiency only way to control nitrogen pollution’
Human-induced nitrogen emissions have surpassed natural emissions, damaging the environment and human health, says Mark Sutton, lead author of &…
Clean up or close down
Threatened with closure on grounds of pollution, Palam Potteries adopted a waste minimisation method that brought down its smoke emissions and …
The general folly
Recently, the US-based General Motors has rammed into a controversy involving nearly half a million of its luxury cars spewing alarming amounts …
Composition: critical
While the aircraft industry flies high with composites, one question nags engineers: are they really safe?
Air pollution levels in Delhi drop by 60 per cent on car-free day
Delhi government has proved that reducing car numbers can significantly bring down pollution in a city where air pollution kills at least one …
Supreme Court upholds pollution levy on trucks entering Delhi
The apex court will give an order on Monday based on directions prepared by amicus curiae
When will India wake up to freedom—from air pollution?
London’s worst air day is good air day by Indian standard
Reviving NCR’s air: CAQM submits action plan to NGT, mostly in line with CSE recommendations
The action plan incorporates the updating of emission inventories and source apportionment studies across the entire NCR
2023 ended on a high pollution note, finds CSE analysis of winter air pollution levels in Delhi-NCR
Factors like reduced contribution from stubble burning, November rains and milder winters were undone by low wind speed
Clean air drive
Killing the high-end killer
Delhi's poor vulnerable to health risks due to air pollution
Count the soot
Black carbon from diesel, not from biomass, warms the globe
Environment funds lying unused
Only 17 per cent of the funds created by the Supreme Court have been utilised in Delhi over last 15 years
When people participate in a government initiative
Delhi's fight against air pollution is an example of how citizens' participation can be solicited
Dust, high temperatures bring Delhi’s air quality down to 'poor'
The Aravalli range plays a critical role in checking sand migration from the Thar Desert to Delhi-NCR; but they now stand degraded