India is unlikely to reach its rooftop solar power generation target of 40 GW by 2022

The potential for rooftop solar photovoltaic cells in urban settlements can be met if states and Union territories integrate the Centre’s …

More cars enter Delhi every day than are registered in a year: CSE study

A CSE study has found that the number of personal and passenger vehicles that enter Delhi daily are close to the total number of vehicles …

Pollution: the great leveller

Energised by vegetables

Are biofuels a feasible option to replacing conventional fuels?

Wake up and smell the air

Obama steps on accelerator

The CNG sabotage

To clean up Delhi's air, the Supreme Court ruled in July 1998 that all public transport should move away from diesel and towards compressed …

More to Auto expo than Tata's Nano

What does Euro 7 mean for India’s BS-VII discussions

European emission norms have been a blueprint for emission regulation in India since 2000

SC to hear Volkswagen’s appeal against NGT order

A four-member panel set up by the NGT recently raised fine on the automobile giant to Rs 171.34 crore over damage to people’s health

A giant backing out?

Mercedes-Benz has put on hold investments in India due to ban on sale of larger diesel vehicles in Delhi-NCR

'Jaguar Land Rover statement about their cars being air-purifying machines is irresponsible'

The company should withdraw this statement and support the government in bringing clean diesel technology as soon as possible, says CSE

Respiratory, cardiac diseases on the rise

In ten years from now, New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai together will record the highest number of premature deaths caused by air pollution

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Pay if you pollute

Polluters in many advanced countries pay for the mess they make. India is still to wake up to such effective fiscal measures to control vehicular …

How other countries are experimenting with odd-even system

Mild hybrids: diesel in new disguise?

Diesel vehicles, in the name of 'mild hybrids', are cornering a huge portion of the funds allocated for promotion of electric mobility in India

Can gasification be the solution to crop burning?

Biomass gasification can not only prevent air pollution from burning crop residues, but also increase farmers’ income and manage municipal …

Choked Delhi to halve number of vehicles on its roads

About 75 per cent of days in November were found to be 'severely polluted' with PM2.5 levels four times higher than the prescribed limit

Diesel: when bad policy makes for toxic hell

Diesel fumes and your health: Volkswagen cover-up shows we need to test local cars

Diesel exhaust fumes are a known cause of lung cancer and may cause bladder cancer

Will diesel subsidy help farmers tide over drought?

Battery electric vehicles might beat hydrogen fuel in a cost-benefit analysis, at least for now

Currently in India, battery electric vehicles are more viable than green hydrogen & biofuels. But that may change as technologies are scaled up

‘Solid, liquid waste may have overtaken fertilisers as the biggest source of N2O emissions’

Nandula Raghuram, chair of International Nitrogen Initiative, talks to DTE on the rise in nitrous oxide emissions, its repurcussions and …