A 15-year-old Canadian teen built a robot turtle, which could help scientists spot reef damage earlier and transform ecological threats underwaterA young Canadian inventor has created a robotic turtle. This innovative device can detect ecological hazards affecting coral reefs. The rob...
23 May, 2026, 09.15 PM IST
Cocaine pollution in rivers may be affecting salmon behaviour more than scientists expectedResearch reveals cocaine and its metabolite, benzoylecgonine, significantly alter salmon behavior, causing increased travel distances and p...
08 May, 2026, 04.05 PM IST
Pakistan world's most polluted country, followed by Bangladesh; India at 6th spot: ReportThe 2025 edition of the report published by IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company, is based on analysis of data from monitoring sta...
24 Mar, 2026, 06.58 PM IST
Mumbai cracks down on construction sites as air pollution hits dangerous levelsMumbai's air quality is worsening. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has stopped work at 53 construction sites. These sites are contri...
28 Nov, 2025, 03.23 PM IST
Bengal government to deploy drones to combat industrial pollutionThe real-time data collected by the drones will be transmitted to the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) of the West Bengal Pollu...
05 Jun, 2023, 07.43 PM IST
West Bengal Pollution Control Board to install sensors to detect stubble burningThe board will buy software for the sensors from Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). WBPCB is working with IIT Delhi on this project...
13 Dec, 2019, 02.03 PM IST
Ola partners with Microsoft Research to study street-level air quality in Delhi-NCRThe project will begin this month and is expected to collect millions of data points over the course of one year to complete the spectrum o...
18 Nov, 2019, 09.55 PM IST
Graphite plant shut, whitefield breathes easyWhitefield residents have tied up with private firms and installed 13 air monitoring devices in the region, including one near the factory ...
29 May, 2019, 11.19 AM IST
Here's how these startups are making sense of air quality using sensorsIf reports are to be believed, 1.2 million people died prematurely due to the adverse effects of air pollution in 2018, which the governmen...
10 May, 2019, 09.06 PM IST
- Now, industries polluting Ganga under live monitoring05 Jul, 2017, 07.08 PM IST
They pay to know their PM- particulate matter26 Jun, 2016, 12.11 PM IST
Now pay to know particulate matter in air around youFirms are sprouting across the country to offer people DIY pollution kits to measure a person's exposure to air pollution at all times.
26 Jun, 2016, 11.48 AM IST
Pollution sensors and open data dashboard to protect city lakesThe sensors would gather data on dissolved oxygen levels, pH levels, temp, concentration of dissolved chemicals in the lake, thereby helpin...
21 Jun, 2016, 11.32 AM IST
Delhi's pollution woes: The odds are even to clean the air across Indian citiesA spike in air pollution is not a predictor of failure because, in the short term, air pollution levels are dominated by meteorological con...
19 Jan, 2016, 01.03 PM IST
- China to adopt remote monitoring for pollution control
China, the world's top polluter, will build a comprehensive network involving drones, satellites and remote sensors to detect land, sea and...
05 Aug, 2015, 02.28 PM IST
How to transform waste management using ICT to enable Swachh Bharat MissionConsidering the social, environmental and health impact of waste management and sanitation, Government of India has launched Swachh Bharat ...
06 Jul, 2015, 04.44 PM IST
Smart electric cars to measure air pollutionThe University of Leicester researchers have designed and installed special sensors into EVs that can measure pollutant concentrations.
14 Jul, 2014, 08.46 AM IST