Growth that inhibits

Researchers from the US have recently declared that it may be possible to reduce the degree of mercury pollution in the soil by simply growing …

A fused scheme

A short circuit in consumer acceptance and a punctured technology compels California to backtrackfiom launching electric cars in the state

Crimes against the environment

The Environmental Crimes Bureau (ECB) of New Jersey in the US is a state agency that is entrusted with the job of taking action against those …

Stop gaps

CONTROLLING POLLUTION: INCENTIVES AND REGULATIONS· Shekhar Mehta, Sudipto Mundle and U Sankar· Sage publications, New Delhi·…

Climate change worsening air pollution: 131.2 million Americans breathing unhealthy air, warns report

Nearly 90.7 million people in the US live in counties with failing grades for year-round particle pollution, finds report

Staff crunch, expanded mandate hitting pollution control Boards’ performance, finds report

Regulatory scrutiny of polluting sources affected; over 9 agencies have over 40% positions vacant

NGT orders closure of 69 industrial areas

Continued polluting activities are criminal offences under the law of the land, the tribunal said in its order

Pollution not under control

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 3, 2020)

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

Prepare emission standards for industries in NCR by June: Supreme Court asks CPCB

Use of cheap and dirty fuels like pet coke and furnace oil is rampant in NCR due to the lack of a benchmark on emissions

Pollution levels in Delhi-NCR high after Diwali

Despite cracker ban, the 24-hour average level of PM2.5 during Diwali and the morning after has been 397 mg per cubic metre, which is 6.6 times …

Second phase of odd-even scheme to be back in April

The government is “seriously considering” making odd-even mandatory for 15 days every month

Gassed: How air pollution is affecting India’s future

Air pollution is causing greater loss of healthy life years in children compared to older people, a phenomenon that stunts India’s economic …

Simply Put: Accustomed to toxic air

A superstar against environmental evil

Air Pollution Monitoring Technologies: Interview with Phil Dickerson

Phil Dickerson is director of AIRNow program at US Environmental Protection Agency

GAP told to clean up its act

A Supreme Court order has put the fate of the ambitious Ganga Action Plan in doubt

Terror in the streets

PAKISTAN

Noise over weapons blowup

CHINA

Falling bricks

Owners of brick kilns resent pollution control measures of the authorities

INDIA

The better choice

Developed by an agricultural institute , electric rickshaws can combat auto pollution

Recharging water

Austrelia launches a project to save the world's biggest reservoir of groundwater