Fighting for clean air

Driving out diesel

African merchandise

Survival is the only business that thrives in an ailing continent

Automated eyewash

Final report of the Mashelkar committee on auto fuel policy a complete letdown

Public interest vs public relations

Lethal PM2.5

To be monitored in Indian cities, says pollution board

Anti-pollution software

To monitor sponge iron units

In Short

Smells toxic

‘For Mumbai pollution, construction dust, unfavourable meteorology obvious culprits but can't rule out climate change’

IIT Bombay environmental scientist Abhishek Chakraborty on how warming may have caused smog & why bettter planning is needed for policymaking

Rains bring some respite from severe air pollution

That’s no guarantee though that air quality would not deteriorate. The authorities should use the respite days to better plan how to …

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

Deployment of sensor-based air quality monitors in Meghalaya is a welcome step

Sensor-based technology — being developed for the past few decades — has leapfrogged in recent years

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, …

Farmers in Punjab are burning stubble as an act of rebellion

They are angry that even as they suffer from farm distress and do not get any proper returns on their labour and produce, the onus of stubble …

Diseases linked to a degraded environment continue to ravage India

Despite the increasing burden respiratory infections and water borne disease, the budgetary allowance for health has steadily dipped in the last …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 21, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Gujarat launches India’s first trading programme to combat particulate air pollution

Launched on World Environment Day, the programme is a market-based system where the government sets a cap on emissions and allows industries to …

Anil Agarwal Environment Training Institute is one of the greenest campuses in India

The buildings have been designed in a way to maximise thermal comfort while relying less on air conditioning

Why farmers in Punjab and Haryana continue to burn rice stubble?

Every year during October and November, farmers in Punjab and Haryana are blamed for polluting the Delhi air by burning stubble

Cyclone Titli weakens after damaging crop, infrastructure

Several places in Odisha have received more than 100 mm rainfall and more is expected

New device developed to tackle pollution in high traffic zones

Prototypes of WAYU have been installed at the ITO Junction in central Delhi and Mukarba Chowk in north Delhi; 54 more units would be installed in …

About 75 per cent of total deaths due to PM 2.5 take place in rural India: study

In 2015, PM2.5 was responsible for approximately 1.1 million deaths, which is 10.6 per cent of total number of deaths in the country

Building new roads does not solve traffic congestion, analysis finds

Arterial roads, which were built with the purpose of removing congestion, have worsened the traffic speeds across Delhi-NCR

Can masks save you from pollutants in the air?

While the effectiveness of anti-pollution masks cannot be denied, they are not the permanent solution against air pollution