World Environment Day 2023: CSE finds ground-level ozone pollution in Delhi-NCR all-year problem, persists at nights too

New Delhi and South Delhi areas were worst affected by ground-level ozone between March 1, 2023 and May 30, 2023

Improved stove: a misnomer?

Some emit more black carbon than traditional mud stoves

Don't give up the fight

Death is in the air

Air quality in Indian cities has never been worse. More and more people are dying in urban India due to high levels of pollutants in the air. The …

Air pollution deaths: What troubles Delhi today may haunt Mumbai tomorrow

South Asian cities extremely vulnerable to PM 2.5 pollution exposure, related mortality, say experts 

Meerut's air quality more threatening than Delhi; old vehicles, industries add to woes

Inner Meerut's PM 2.5 concentration peaked at 1470μg/m3 as against the safe limit of 60μg/m3

A car free day keeps the chocking away

Delhi is reeling under a worse polluted winter than 2014. The odd-even formula empowers people to take the first step out of the gas chamber

Dung beetle experiment suggests carbon dioxide is bad for insects too

Beetles exposed to eCO₂ have reduced chance of making it to adulthood, say report

Delhi air in trouble again: Should farm fires be in focus

Satellite images show fire spots in severa places in Punjab, Haryana

Delhi air quality improves a bit

Strong winds help lift AQI to 'poor' from 'severe'

Simply put: Every third traffic cop suffers from lung ailments

Bihar bans tree-felling

Government cites increasing pollution and heatwave in the state as reason for the ban

Pollution in news on June 5

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on pollution

Fight against pollution may witness a paradigm shift

Very soon the emissions from domestic sewage may out run the pollution from fertilisers

Inking solutions to pollution

Two Indian startups are converting polluted air particles into inks and paints

Containing air pollution in the national capital

The air pollution crisis has opened up opportunity to rework long term strategies

Despite appeals and fines, paddy crop residue burning on the rise in Punjab

Data from state pollution control board reveals increase in incidents

Gurgaon goes car-free Today

Citizen journalists share their experiences of going car free 

Will we be responsible for our own extinction?

Graphic Editor Sorit Gupto: Pollution and climate change

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