वायु प्रदूषण से भारत पर पड़ रहा है सालाना 1 लाख करोड़ रुपए का अतिरिक्त बोझ: स्टडी

एक नए अध्ययन में कहा गया है कि हर साल देश में होने वाली करीब 10 लाख असमय मौतों के लिए भी वायु प्रदूषण ...

डीजल से होने वाले प्रदूषण से बढ़ रहे हैं निमोनिया के मामले

आमतौर पर स्वस्थ इंसान के नाक और गले में मौजूद रहने वाला एक हानिरहित न्यूमोकोकल बैक्टीरिया, प्रदूषण के कारण निमोनिया जैसी गंभीर बीमारी का ...

Simply put: Farm crisis

जग बीती: अब कुछ भी असामान्य नहीं रहा!

Not ‘go slow’, need more certainty in electric vehicle pathways

The auto industry slow down must not provoke reactive posturing but spur a firm policy roadmap and a legal mandate in consultation with the …

IIT Hyderabad scientists convert fly ash into waterproofing material

Treating fly ash with stearic acid, used in soaps and shampoos, modified the nature of fly ash and helped develop materials with contrasting …

Chinese officials aided industries to defy pollution rules

President Xi Jinping had last year called for efforts to fight pollution

Why Kashmir University should prefer footfalls over whizzing cars in its campus

The university recently declared a war on black carbon through a decision to ban fuel-burning vehicles in the campus. The decision has gone down …

Delhi notifies guidelines for scrapping vehicles, but some issues remain unaddressed

The guidelines should make periodic testing of roadworthiness of vehicles mandatory and link the scrapping process to deregistration of vehicles 

Ozone pollution can damage wheat crop

Banaras Hindu University scientists found that most wheat cultivars developed after 2000 are more sensitive to damage due to ozone, a byproduct …

Delhi's odd-even number-plate rules are far from perfect

Oh! the hypocrisy of it all...

Graphic Editor Sorit Gupto's take on Delhi's pollution problem

Heat wave leads to deadly ozone pollution in Delhi: CSE analysis

Rising NOx levels and volatile gases in the air, primarily from vehicles, form the recipe for ozone

Sooty clues

Plants as toxin purifiers

Ironing out pollution

A recently-developed cheap and environmentally-benign iron compound helps dispose of polluting nitrogen oxides

Cleaner air

Launch by a bomber

Blast blanket

Flight to fame

A joint consortium by 3 Asian nations to build a passenger aircraft may shake the Western stranglehold

Grounding fliers

Environmental activists are fighting against the dramatic expansion of air traffic in the Netherlands

Winged wonder

US researchers have developed an aircraft that could possibly explain the mystery of UFOs

Tending on its own

Tough time, safe landing

Results of simulated landings using the global positioning system show that planes can now land safely even in zero visibility

Flying with a laptop

A new sofware will now provide aspiring pilots the chance to do their groundwork before flying