India's ethanol roadmap : The targets and challenges

E20 material compliant and E10 compliant vehicles may be rolled out across the country from April 2023

Attention Delhi: Diwali ahead

Air quality just a notch below danger mark already

2018’s autumn, early winter show marginal improvement for Delhi air: CSE

Still, there are hardly any ‘good’, ‘satisfactory’ or even ‘moderately polluted’ days in sight

Indian roads belong to motorised vehicles, not cyclists or pedestrians

Vehicular emissions cannot be reduced without strengthening the public transport system

Delhi chokes again: winter is becoming synonymous with air pollution

Sudden deterioration in air quality is due to fall in wind speed and rise in moisture content, which is making the pollutants build up fast

Exposure to pollutants higher than ambient pollution in Delhi’s Anand Vihar: CSE

Delhi-based based Centre for Science and Environment has found that exposure level is three times more than background ambient air pollution …

Enough is enough

For over a week after Diwali, Delhi breathed poison. Air pollution peaked to unprecedented levels. Public anger forced emergency measures. But …

Farmers and drivers: unequal punishments

Why is no action being taken to curtail air pollution from diesel-fired vehicles?

Pay and pollute?

It is an irony that carmakers get away by paying a meagre 1 per cent of the cost of diesel cars while the emission data nails that they emit 7 to …

Udta PM2.5

Instead of rejecting scientific studies on air pollution, the government should come up with better data to arrive at more conclusive findings

More cars enter Delhi every day than are registered in a year: CSE study

A CSE study has found that the number of personal and passenger vehicles that enter Delhi daily are close to the total number of vehicles …

Choked Delhi to halve number of vehicles on its roads

About 75 per cent of days in November were found to be 'severely polluted' with PM2.5 levels four times higher than the prescribed limit

Fireworks make Diwali a dangerous festival for all

Farm fires, firecrackers and burdgeoning vehicular pollution will choke the air in cities and towns this winter. Are we headed towards our worst …

Diesel cars fail to meet European emission standards, reveals report

Tests carried out under urban driving conditions showed the NOx emissions of diesel cars to be much higher than the prescribed limit

Exposure to toxic parts of PM2.5 during pregnancy harmful for newborn health

Inhaling sulphur, sulphate, copper, iron, nickel and zinc through PM2.5 can trigger maternal oxidative stress and affect the growth of the foetus

Pollution no less this Diwali, shows official data

Diwali pollution management needs rethink, says non-profit Centre for Science and Environment

Ozone: good news and bad news

Hole in the ozone layer is healing, but ground level ozone is destroying crops that could feed a third of India’s poor

Indian Railways to chart a new route to reduce GHG emissions

Focus on low-carbon inter-urban passenger and freight transport, and tools like NAMAs for technology transfer and financing

Two-stroke vehicles are the worst polluters

Six per cent of bikes and 70 per cent of three wheelers run on two-stroke engines in India

WHO estimate on air pollution shows Indian cities are death traps

Analysis of database indicates that all 124 Indian cities assessed exceed the WHO guideline for particulate matter levels; Delhi, Patna exceed …

SC takes cognisance of alarming increase in air pollution in Delhi

Centre for Science and Environment welcomes apex court’s decision to accelerate priority measures to cut toxic vehicular emissions and air …

EPCA has recommended ban on diesel vehicles in Delhi: environment minister tells Parliament

Benefits of CNG transition are not visible due to growth in diesel vehicles, says recent report by Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) …

Delhi smog lifts partially

Pollution build up in recent days corresponded with peak traffic hours and freight movement

Diwali is far, but smog is here

Slow wind speed and pollution build up chokes people; authorities fail to issue health alerts

Make Gujarat a CNG state: high court

Bring natrual gas rate at par with that in Delhi, Mumbai