Centre confirms three pentavalent vaccine deaths

Union health ministry says 17 other deaths of infants reported in Haryana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu were not linked to five-in-one vaccine

Mystery fever stalks Surat

Three persons have died in the past three days; help sought from National Institute of Virology to identify disease

Bombay high court gives six weeks' time to Lavasa

Asks to submit documents to environment ministry by March 10

Logistics giant DHL goes eco-friendly

Can clay idols replace all PoP idols?

Sale of clay idols is on the rise, but switching completely to clay is not easy

Maharashtra villages agitate for share from forest produce

Stall auction of produce from the forests they protect under joint forest management programme; forest department owes them Rs 85 lakh

Beware, dangerous pollutants are spooking your air

Pollution levels in major north Indian cities are either 'very poor' or 'severe'

14 km from Pune, its footprint

Ozone: good news and bad news

Hole in the ozone layer is healing, but ground level ozone is destroying crops that could feed a third of India’s poor

Pune protests Dow research facility

Wind farm threat to forests

Blasting causes animals and birds to abandon the area

Carcinogenic benzene levels peak in Delhi

Petrol pumps and heavy traffic locations worst affected

Industrialisation bringing acid rain to India

Maharashtra, pollution board differ on Dow plant

Obesity-related diseases: doctors propose lower waist size cutoffs for screening Indian children

Waist circumference is a reliable indicator of metabolic syndrome, says study

Flawed, but accepted

Pollution board report blames LPG for particulate matter, spares vehicles

Pune police to crack down on noise on New Year’s Eve

Green tribunal orders confiscation of cars fitted with unauthorised DJ systems to check noise pollution

How harmful is PoP to the environment?

Artisan groups say PoP is made from naturally occurring substance and does not the affect the environment; activists say its impact is long-term

Rains in Uttarakhand extreme weather event: scientists

Unpredictability associated with monsoons will only increase as global temperatures rise

Are humans increasingly responsible for extreme weather events?

Weather extremes are often so overwhelming that it is hard for us to imagine that we may actually be increasingly responsible for at least some …

Maharashtra elections: Welfare dominates tribal mandate

Vote likely to be split between the Congress, NCP and BJP

Real estate boom, quarries to blame for Pune disaster?

Ambegaon taluk where disaster-struck Malin village was located had become a realty hot spot and had mines; it is located in the ecologically …

Pune gets grant to clear the air innovatively

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The town farmers built