Diwali: Nudge practice of not tolerating personal harm

Festival also reminds us that awareness has to nudge change towards environmentally responsible behaviour to support difficult regulatory action

Biden winning US elections 2020 shows how clean air, climate inaction influence mandate

Joe Biden’s electoral victory proves that democracy can work for science and environmental justice, says Anumita Roychowdhury of CSE

Funds for clean air: Get the blueprint right

Committed funds for clean air action excites hope. Needs strong performance metrics. But there are also risks of underfunding some key sectors of …

दिल्ली-एनसीआर वायु गुणवत्ता प्रबंधन आयोग: आदेश से अध्यादेश तक

यह गौर करने वाला है कि अभी तक ऐसी कौन सी चीज थी जिसने कार्�…

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 …

Toxic air hits the crib; especially in India

India records highest increase in air pollution related deaths and infant mortality

Remembering Kirk R Smith (1947-2020)

Kirk leaves us with the power of imagining change and hope 

Lethal toxicity vs quantum of pollution in Delhi’s air

Not just quantum of pollution but also toxicity of emissions must be assessed to prioritise action on pollution sources

Earth day musings: Can this pandemic change the idea of a city?

Post-pandemic, the new normal in our cities need to be more humane and inclusive and urban renewal must be designed on a human scale

पृथ्वी दिवस पर चिंतन: क्या यह महामारी किसी शहर की परिकल्पना को बदल सकती है?

इस महामारी के बाद हमारे शहरों को अधिक मानवीय और समावेशी �…

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

Air during COVID-19 lockdown: March’s last week cleanest so far in Delhi

This is the first time since 2016 that March in spring has recorded lowest pollution levels

Bharat Stage VI: India leapfrogs today and it is no Fool’s day  

Despite the pall of gloom around COVID-19, there is reason to cheer that India has become the only country to leapfrog directly to Bharat Stage …

COVID-19 flattens peak-hour pollution

The flat rates of peak-hour pollution due to the lockdown proves why strong action is needed to reduce traffic volumes and cut tailpipe emissions …

कोविड-19: लॉकडाउन से साफ हो रही प्रदूषित हवा, क्या इससे कुछ सीख पाएंगे हम

नोवेल कोरोना वायरस महामारी ने वायु के प्रदूषण को काफी ह�…

COVID-19: Dirty air and vice of the virus  

The novel coronavirus pandemic may have lowered air pollution. But this crisis-led change shows how health risk perception makes difficult …

What is COVID-19 signaling about building design for healthy living?

The possibility that our air-conditioned and cooled living spaces may make coronavirus comfortable and spread needs to be well understood to spur …

International Women's Day: Empower to protect the womb and newborn

Transmission of latent toxic risk from air pollution through womb forever is not acceptable

Harmattan and the air we breathe: What can we learn?

The massive climate change-induced dust fall event in west Africa has many lessons for all combating deadly air pollution  

वायु प्रदूषण-3: भारत को करनी होगी ठोस पहल

वायु (रोकथाम और नियंत्रण) अधिनियम, 1981 की धारा 19, राज्य सरका�…

वायु प्रदूषण-1: छोटे शहरों की हवा भी हो रही है जहरीली

वायु प्रदूषण को क्षेत्रीय दायरे में बांधना संभव नहीं, इ�…

वायु प्रदूषण-2 : भारत को दूसरे देशों से सीखना होगा

अब यह समझ भी पैदा हो रही है कि देशों के भीतर अंतर-क्षेत्र�…

How do we know air quality is changing?

Expanding monitoring for more data alone won’t help. Need science, statistical methods for legal reporting on air quality trends, …

Union Budget 2020-21 promises Rs 4,400 cr for clean air; how, where and how soon?

Fiscal promise for clean air action without a blueprint for spending; even after a year of NCAP, output & outcome indicators not available in …

Fight barriers to solutions to clean air

Need solution-driven agenda to build public and political will to overpower resistance from inconvenience of change