Air Pollution updates | Latest news on Air Pollution issues, Air quality Index in India

Top News

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 13, 2026)

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 13, 2026)

14 Apr 2026

4 min read

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 10, 2026)

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 10, 2026)

13 Apr 2026

3 min read

Loni in Delhi-NCR has world’s most polluted air

Loni in Delhi-NCR has world’s most polluted air

Vikas Choudhary

09 Apr 2026

1 min read

News

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 13, 2026)

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 13, 2026)

14 Apr 2026

4 min read

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 10, 2026)

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 10, 2026)

13 Apr 2026

3 min read

Loni in Delhi-NCR has world’s most polluted air

Loni in Delhi-NCR has world’s most polluted air

Vikas Choudhary

09 Apr 2026

1 min read

Dust and traffic gridlock in Delhi’s Anand Vihar; here is why

Dust and traffic gridlock in Delhi’s Anand Vihar; here is why

Vikas Choudhary

08 Apr 2026

1 min read

Ghaziabad recorded highest PM10 pollution in 2025-26

Ghaziabad recorded highest PM10 pollution in 2025-26

Preetha Banerjee

07 Apr 2026

3 min read

E-powering Ethiopia and its integrated leap to zero-emission mobility

E-powering Ethiopia and its integrated leap to zero-emission mobility

Anumita Roychowdhury

03 Apr 2026

6 min read

Kenya’s new e-Mobility policy can make it a to clean industrial hub

Kenya’s new e-Mobility policy can make it a clean industrial hub

Priyanka Chandola

01 Apr 2026

4 min read

Why India’s pollution crisis persists despite funds and policies

Why India’s pollution crisis persists despite funds and policies

31 Mar 2026

5 min read

Left: A parked bicycle on a street in Edinburgh; Right: Cycle stands outside the University of Cambridge campus.

Cycling to work as a white-collar worker: My tryst with the streets of Delhi

30 Mar 2026

4 min read

Spark in the game

Spark in the game

Moushumi Mohanty

17 Mar 2026

2 min read

How the M C Mehta case rewrote Delhi’s clean air playbook

How the M C Mehta case rewrote Delhi’s clean air playbook

Anumita Roychowdhury

13 Mar 2026

5 min read

Delhi cocks a snook

Delhi cocks a snook

Vikas Choudhary

09 Mar 2026

1 min read

Interviews

Microplastics now make up to 5% of particulate pollution in Indian cities, mostly from synthetic clothing, packaging, vehicle wear and footwear.

‘Microplastics now make up as much as 5% of particulate pollution in India’s cities’

03 Dec 2025

6 min read

By tomorrow afternoon or evening, Delhi’s air quality will likely hover between ‘Poor’ and ‘Very Poor’: Gufran Beig

By tomorrow afternoon or evening, Delhi’s air quality will likely hover between ‘Poor’ and ‘Very Poor’: Gufran Beig

20 Oct 2025

4 min read

New proposal to add exemptions for a banned hazardous chemical under Stockholm Convention is questioning its credibility: Giulia Carlini

New proposal to add exemptions for a banned hazardous chemical under Stockholm Convention is questioning its credibility: Giulia Carlini

Rohini Krishnamurthy

05 May 2025

7 min read

Loretta J Mickley, senior research fellow and co-lead of Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group at Harvard

‘We don’t fully understand what governs India’s temperature trends’

Akshit Sangomla

09 Apr 2025

4 min read

‘Reducing aerosol pollution could worsen heat risks — we need policy that can handle both’

‘Reducing aerosol pollution could worsen heat risks — we need policy that can handle both’

Akshit Sangomla

07 Apr 2025

3 min read

David Shumway Jones, Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University and an expert on the history of air pollution in India

‘There is reason to believe controlling air pollution can increase temperatures’

Akshit Sangomla

04 Apr 2025

4 min read

Blogs

E-powering Ethiopia and its integrated leap to zero-emission mobility

E-powering Ethiopia and its integrated leap to zero-emission mobility

Anumita Roychowdhury

03 Apr 2026

6 min read

Kenya’s new e-Mobility policy can make it a to clean industrial hub

Kenya’s new e-Mobility policy can make it a clean industrial hub

Priyanka Chandola

01 Apr 2026

4 min read

Why India’s pollution crisis persists despite funds and policies

Why India’s pollution crisis persists despite funds and policies

31 Mar 2026

5 min read

Left: A parked bicycle on a street in Edinburgh; Right: Cycle stands outside the University of Cambridge campus.

Cycling to work as a white-collar worker: My tryst with the streets of Delhi

30 Mar 2026

4 min read

How the M C Mehta case rewrote Delhi’s clean air playbook

How the M C Mehta case rewrote Delhi’s clean air playbook

Anumita Roychowdhury

13 Mar 2026

5 min read

Trends that trail a new green world

Trends that trail a new green world

25 Feb 2026

22 min read

Circular economy in agriculture: Wealth on paper, waste on the ground

Circular economy in agriculture: Wealth on paper, waste on the ground

Subhrajit Goswami

19 Feb 2026

6 min read

Paying to cope: India’s emerging ‘pollution’ economy

Paying to cope: India’s emerging ‘pollution economy’

Rituparna Sengupta

12 Feb 2026

4 min read

Videos

Child asthma, preterm births & other health crisis: New report on India’s steel-producing giant

Child asthma, preterm births & other health crisis: New report on India’s steel-producing giant

Despite being classified among the 17 highly polluting industries by the Central Pollution Control Board, India still has no national standards for sulphur dioxide emissions from steel plants

03 Mar 2026

1 min read

AAD 2026: Sanjeev Bagai on the growing health impact of air pollution and what India should do

AAD 2026: Sanjeev Bagai on the growing health impact of air pollution and what India should do

26 Feb 2026

1 min read

GRAP-IV explained: Why is Delhi under emergency air pollution measures again?

GRAP-IV explained: Why is Delhi under emergency air pollution measures again?

15 Dec 2025

1 min read

Northeast India is turning into a pollution hotspot

Northeast India is turning into a pollution hotspot

28 Nov 2025

1 min read

Ash from Ethiopia’s 12,000-Year dormant volcano drifts into India

Ash from Ethiopia’s 12,000-Year dormant volcano drifts into India

27 Nov 2025

1 min read

The Sunita Narain Show: Our right to clean air is not negotiable. Here’s what we need to do

The Sunita Narain Show: Our right to clean air is not negotiable. Here’s what we need to do

25 Nov 2025

1 min read

Down To Earth

www.downtoearth.org.in