Sabarmati pollution: Inspect all industrial effluent treatment plants, Gujarat HC tells government

Domestic waste water and industrial effluent generated daily by Ahmedabad is discharged into the Sabarmati

Air pollution: European countries making strides, but others lagging behind

Dangerous air quality levels continue to be recorded throughout Europe and Central Asia, despite imprpvement in slashing emssions, UNEP study notes

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 

Hundreds of fish species, including many that humans eat, are consuming plastic

There is a need for studies analysing how frequently plastics transfer from fish to humans and their potential effects on the human body

Environment ministry issues new draft notification on fly ash with ‘polluter pays’ principle

Power plants have been given an extension of 10 years to progressively utilise their legacy ash

Over 3 lakh pregnancy losses every year linked to polluted air in South Asia

Northern plains region in India and Pakistan most impacted, meeting India’s air quality standard would have reduced loss by 7 per cent&…

Cleaner air: Can we go back to ‘normal’?

CPCB’s evidence on nation-wide clean up during the lockdown implies that clean air action has to upscale to new normal

17,00,32,429 pieces of plastic litter Kerala’s coast: Study

Malappuram is the most littered district in Kerala, while Alappuzha is the least, the study found

Microplastic in Atlantic: Ocean lab near Bermuda Triangle

Scientists on expedition find 29 pieces of plastic, of which 23 are micro plastic, in the Atlantic Gyre

A vicious nexus

To ensure that inconvenient research is besmirched and killed, industries are invariably attacking the science and researchers

Why is Delhi engulfed in dust?

Anumita Roychowdhury, head of air pollution and clean transportation programme at CSE, explains why Delhi and North India is besieged by dust, …

How silent are silence zones in India?

A study monitored 17 silence zones in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Lucknow and found that none of them came anywhere …

Hyacinth can help remove toxic chromium from polluted water

Researchers from India and Ethiopia have developed low-cost method to remove chromium from water

Depression’s other face

Factors linking depression to air pollution, food habits and environmental degradation are not commonly considered

Arabian Sea is suffocating due to toxic algae bloom, and it is going to get worse

The extent and frequency of harmful algae bloom increases, thanks to ocean warming and higher levels of water pollution due to human activities

Not just air, level of noise pollution in Delhi is also deadly: study

A new study confirms the findings of a 2011 CSE survey which had shown that the capital has the noisiest roads in the country

Pollutants invade remotest place on earth; Mariana Trench highly contaminated

Shrimplike crustaceans in Mariana and Kermadec trenches are contaminated with 50 times more toxic chemicals than crabs that survive in heavily …

SC allows diesel SUVs back into the capital

Following a plea by car manufacturer to pay one per cent environment protection charge, the court allows big diesel cars in the NCR  

Growing maritime traffic major source of air pollution in East Asia

Contributed 16 per cent of carbon dioxide in the region in 2013 compared to 4-7 per cent during 2002-05

UK plastic waste threatens Arctic ecosystem

Out of the 13 billion single-use plastic bottles annually bought in the UK, only 50 per cent are recycled

Flip side of skyglow

City lights are creating fogs of light pollution as the entire population lives under a sky so bright that the eye cannot fully dark-adapt …

Filthy lucre

US's Democrats and Republicans break common bread over the fairness, or otherwise, of the Regulatory Reform Bill that could make industry …

Left Hanging

The DTC's plan to buy new eco-friendly buses is left hanging as Delhi government stalls the deal. Manish Tiwari and Anumita Roychowdhary report

Power pedaling

Indian cities are being engulfed by vehicular pollution. Under such circumstances, the electric autorickshaw and bicycle offer some respite