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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

News

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

Simply Put: Oil rain in Tehran

Simply Put: Oil rain in Tehran

09 Mar 2026

1 min read

Simply Put: Air pollution victim

Simply Put: Air pollution victim

07 Mar 2026

1 min read

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

03 Mar 2026

1 min read

Simply Put: For a profit

Simply Put: For a profit

27 Feb 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

Air pollution causing 16 times more deaths each year than COVID-19: Sanjeev Bagai at AAD 2026

Air pollution causing 16 times more deaths each year than COVID-19: Sanjeev Bagai at AAD 2026

26 Feb 2026

7 min read

Monitoring is an Achilles’ heel in country’s air pollution fight: CSE’s State of India’s Environment report

Monitoring is an Achilles’ heel in country’s air pollution fight: CSE’s State of India’s Environment report

26 Feb 2026

3 min read

SOE 2026: Capital loss

SOE 2026: Why the residents of India’s national and state capitals have shortened life spans

26 Feb 2026

1 min read

Trends that trail a new green world

Trends that trail a new green world

25 Feb 2026

22 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

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

Economic Survey 2025-26 treats air pollution as a regulatory problem, not a health emergency

Economic Survey 2025-26 treats air pollution as a regulatory problem, not a health emergency

02 Feb 2026

5 min read

Foggy winter morning settles over NCR.

Air pollution crosses borders, and so must the policies aimed at tackling it

29 Jan 2026

5 min read

Light rain on January 23, 2026 clears the sky but fails to shift Delhi out of the ‘poor’ air quality category.

Rain brings brief relief, but Delhi’s winter air remains dangerously polluted

Sharanjeet Kaur

23 Jan 2026

3 min read

Supreme Court reviews CAQM’s scientific roadmap on Delhi-NCR air pollution, but gaps remain

Supreme Court reviews CAQM’s scientific roadmap on Delhi-NCR air pollution, but gaps remain

Subhrajit Goswami

22 Jan 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

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