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, …

Bangalore’s ‘Bus Day’

A day-long event organised by Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation to promote public transport in Bangalore, is now traditionally …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 10, 2020)

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

CWG legacy project on air quality spreading to more cities

The System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) will be launched in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar on May 12

Dysfunctional monitoring stations thwart efforts for clean air

A CPCB official confirms that not all values from all the stations in a city are used for computing the AQI value of a city

Not just Delhi, severe air pollution has taken several other cities hostage

Not a single city in northern India meets international air quality standards

The undisclosed air pollutants

How furnace oil and pet coke are choking us as policy fails to stay ahead of underground developments

Science behind smog and its ominous implications

Actions to tackle the smog problem can be both preventive and punitive

You know clean air is good for your health. It’s good for the economy, too

Poor air quality is linked to decreased productivity, school attendance and even lifetime earnings

MoEFCC releases details of National Clean Air Programme; no clarity yet on emission reduction targets

The concept note acknowledges the need for time-bound initiatives at both city and rural level to combat air pollution

Severely polluted air bars people from breathing

NO2 exposure can lead to premature death, respiratory & circulatory illness: Report

Review suggested improving air quality indices to include information on health risks and vulnerable groups & alerts on NO2 peak pollution levels

Join the dots for clean air

Delhi’s air pollution crisis has an urgent message: India must have a regional plan to fight the menace

Crop burning: Dreadful pollution back in Delhi, air quality plunges

Air quality in Delhi and some cities in Uttar Pradesh plunged in the last fortnight as farmers started burning stubble

Delhi's Karol Bagh: On-street democracy for cleaner air

Pedestrian only street in Karol Bagh proves why urban renewal is needed for clean air and sustainability

Deadly Nursery: North India’s children born and bred in toxic air

DTE reports from various parts of North India as children across the region grow up among contaminants

Delhi air to remain ‘very poor’ this week. Here’s why the problem isn't going away

A mix of meteorological conditions & policy flaws behind the recurring problem

Similipal fire shines light on dark hole in India’s real-time air quality monitoring network

Most cities do have manual monitoring systems of air quality but related data becomes available only a year later

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

5 reasons why #OddEven scheme works

Love it or hate it, Delhi's odd-even scheme had some key lessons for the aam and not-so-aam aadmi

India must redouble sustainability efforts: Environment performance index

Ranked 168 out of 180 countries; all South Asian countries, except Afghanistan, were ahead of India in the ranking  

Every country exceeds new PM2.5 annual limit set by WHO: Report

The concentration in 93 per cent of the cities was 10 times the new guidelines

Are we ready for Diwali?

The levels of pollution in Delhi had started to rise in the first week of October, made worse by a dip in temperatures and fall in wind speed

Simply Put: Looking for an uptick

Why was post-Diwali air quality better this year?

Wind speed, warmer temperatures helped disperse pollutants