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NGT bans diesel vehicles older than 10 years in Delhi

The ban is now applicable to private as well as commercial vehicles, both heavy and light

Air India admonished for sale, promotion of e-cigarettes aboard flights

Airline has flouted COTPA law, which prohibits all direct and indirect advertisement of cigarettes and tobacco products

Delhi loses air pollution control race to Beijing: Centre for Science and Environment

Delhi faces the same challenge of cleaning up its air as Beijing, but lacks aggression and stringency of action needed to protect public health

Shimla to levy green fee on private vehicles

Fund to be used to improve road infrastructure and promote ecological sensitivity among tourists

Meta Outstripped

The pace of construction at a controversial copper plant in Goa has not slackened despite protests from the people and the church

Forests under threat

OXIDANT AIR POLLUTION IMPACTS IN THE MONTANE FORESTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A CASE STUDY OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS·Paul R Miller, …

Deadly Dimensions

Diesel may be the most commercially viable fuel at present, but one that raises serious doubts on the future of urban health. Sundeep Salvi of …

Science & Technology - Briefs

Andhra buckles up; Hudhud just 20 km away

Army, navy and air force on stand-by for emergency rescue and relief

Science & Technology - Briefs

Delhi's poll planks

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Science vs economics of cess on diesel

News 360° - Briefs

As told to Parliament (December 19, 2022): No evidence to link poor AQI in NCR with green cracker burning

Delhi-NCR air quality in October, November 2022 best in 7 years, Ashwini Kumar Choubey tells Lok Sabha

Time for new environmentalism

Wishing all our readers a happy World Environment Day, with the hope that the world will continue to work towards paying more than mere lip …

Walk the talk on carbon tax, Mr Finance Minister

Is this carbon tax, imposed on the carbon content of fuel, doing what it should—reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are responsible for …

Green tribunal gives clean chit to Sterlite plant

Expert panel finds emissions from Vedanta subsidiary's copper smelting plant in Tuticorin to be within limits; state's contention that the plant …

Picture imperfect

Fertile and picturesque, that is what Bellary was before companies started indiscriminate mining for iron ore  

Manufactured Chaos

How the Delhi government evaded the Supreme Court order on CNG to engineer a state of anarchy?

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