How can Africa breathe easy when millions of used cars from the West hit its roads each year?

In absence of any no regional or global agreements to govern the flow of used vehicles, the continent is now getting flooded with polluting vehicles

Pollution in news on April 13

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

E-vehicles or e-mobility?

India has unique reasons for faster adoption of electric vehicles, but we need to be bold and aggressive in our plans

China may reach permissible air pollution levels by 2020

Experts have highlighted the new norms that will soon be announced to reach ultra-low emission levels

Ban on diesel SUV to continue till March 31, SC reaffirms

The apex court has asked car manufacturers to prove that diesel SUVs are environment-friendly

CHINA

No-car day

पटना को प्रदूषण मुक्त करने के लिए बना दी योजना, लेकिन

बिहार की राजधानी पटना में बढ़ते वायु प्रदूषण को कम करने के लिए सीएनजी वाहनों को सब्सिडी दी जाएगी, लेकिन इस स्कीम पर सवाल ...

Run-up to CoP25 Santiago: Are global transport emissions on course?

This is the first article in a series on global sectoral emissions and the progress on mitigation action in the build-up to 25th Conference of …

Simply put: India's air pollution credential

A brief introduction to climate change and transportation

How to reconcile people's love affair with their vehicles and society's need to reduce carbon emissions?

Southeast Asia enveloped in haze

The primary cause of the haze has been hundreds of forest fires in Indonesia

कबरई में पत्थर उद्योग से घर-घर बीमार, हर घर शिकार

बुंदेलखंड क्षेत्र के महोबा जिले में स्थित कबरई और उसके आसपास का इलाका पत्थर खनन और धूल उगलती क्रेशरों की भारी कीमत चुका रहा ...

Traffic-related pollution adding to asthma burden worldwide

China accounted for the largest number of cases of traffic pollution-related asthma, followed by India, US, Indonesia and Brazil

Pay and pollute?

It is an irony that carmakers get away by paying a meagre 1 per cent of the cost of diesel cars while the emission data nails that they emit 7 to …

Tighter norms proposed for polluting coal-fired power plants

Centre for Science and Environment, which had published study pointing to high emissions from such power plants, calls for strict implementation …

Jumbo collaboration

Great shakes

A manufacturing marvel

Flying gamble

Computers have played second fiddle to analogue techniques in safety-critical systems and though airlines are switching to fly-by-wire technology,…

Avant-garde antiques

The world is soon to herald the revived version of a flying machine called the airship which had been relegated to the annals of history. These …

Flying blind

Smart jet

The development of adjustable wings will lead to more reliable and cheaper aircraft

Fast spying

Cosmic bolts

Aircraft that mainly rely on computers could take a beating from cosmic rays