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Word of the Day: MephiticThe word "mephitic" describes extremely bad or poisonous air and foul odors, often found in polluted environments or places with toxic fume...- MP: Over 300 suffer eye injuries after using 'carbide guns' during Diwali celebrationsDiwali celebrations saw over 300 people sustain eye injuries. Carbide guns, used to scare animals, were fired during festivities. Most inju...
- Delhi Police files FIR in Ghazipur landfill fireA fire broke out at Ghazipur landfill in east Delhi, causing widespread smoke and health issues. The Delhi Fire Service reported the fire w...
- A possible new mechanism behind Earth's self cleaning process uncoveredThe researchers of the study, including one from University of California, Irvine (UCI), US, report that the presence of a strong electric ...
- Electric Vehicles' bigger carbon footprint at start shrinks as it gets goingAll of the criticisms of BEVs will soon be a thing of the past, said Auke Hoekstra, director of energy transition at Eindhoven University o...
- Hot lava, cool Java: Bandung offers a break with coffee and crater lakesBandung, the capital of West Java, was built by Dutch planters and merchants, whose nostalgia for Europe in the 1920s saw the construction ...
- The dirty legacy of China’s and India’s growthChina and India are being asked to do something the West didn’t have to.
- Time for less light, a lot more visionAuthorities everywhere need to understand this and the night sky deserves to be seen everywhere again.
- Odd-even: How big a villain is your humble car?A landmark IIT-Kanpur study, which covered the period 2013-14, said during winters, vehicles are the second largest and the "most consisten...
- Delhi's air quality plunges to 'severe' categorySAFAR recorded the level of respirable pollutants, PM 2.5 and PM 10, at 283 and 517 micrograms per cubic metre respectively around 8 PM, vi...
- Manual scavengers vent ire, seek redressalA band of young men and women drove into the national capital after a long bus journey lasting 125 days crisscrossing nearly 500 districts ...
- One car-free day won't clean Delhi air, stop trucks, diesel-vehicles: EnvironmentalistsEnvironmentalists feel that a single car-free day in Delhi is a good gesture, but mere tokenism will not work.
- Do not kill terrorists, take them aliveWho were the militants who attacked the Dinanagar police station in Gurdaspur district? What were their aims and ideol ogy?
- Dinosaur-killing asteroid created India's Deccan Traps?Massive dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago likely triggered most of the immense eruptions of lava in India, a...
- Overhaul of green governance need of the hourRaw sewage and industrial waste has rendered water in more than half of India's 445 rivers unfit for drinking, according to the Central Pol...
- Of Himalayan blunders & rivers of muckDevelopmental gains will crumble if India follows a model of growth that is resource-and-energy-intensive. As it is, rivers are degraded, p...
- IIT against storm drain coversScientists from Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi working on city’s drainage master plan don’t think it’s a good idea to cover storm wat...
- A pair of jeans now to help save the environmentThe catalytic jeans were conceived by Professor Tony Ryan and fashion designer Helen Storey, who discovered that when denim is covered with...
- Cow-belch politicsCattle expel more polluting gases that trigger climate change than cars.
- Human noses to sniff out China's pollutantsA dozen people with professional "noses" are set to help in the battle against pollution in southern China.
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