Study traces 60 pc PM2.5 pollution in India to residential cooking, power generation, industriesA new study reveals that up to 60% of India's PM2.5 pollution originates from residential, power generation, and industrial emissions, with...
27 Nov, 2024, 06.26 PM IST
Cleaner cities: Here's the blueprint Indore offers for IndiaIndore's successful waste management transformation offers a blueprint for cleaning India's 50 most polluted cities by 2030. Key actions in...
06 Oct, 2024, 10.56 PM IST
Vehicles, road dust & industries main Delhi-NCR polluters: StudyThe Commission for Air Quality Monitoring is reviewing an IIT Kanpur-TERI report. It identifies road dust and traffic as the main pollution...
01 Oct, 2024, 10.44 AM IST
Vehicles contributed half of PM 2.5 pollution from local sources in Delhi around DiwaliThe report said that when pollution concentrations from all sources -- local, NCR and beyond -- are added, Delhi's vehicles account for nea...
02 Nov, 2022, 10.24 PM IST
Maharashtra records 1,700 gg of PM10 emission each year; windblown road dust largest contributor: StudyEmissions from the transport sector were at 10 per cent, while construction activities accounted for 6.5 per cent, followed by municipal so...
02 Oct, 2022, 04.29 PM IST
Around 64 percent of Delhi's winter pollution load comes from outside: StudyTransport (12 per cent), dust (seven per cent), and domestic biomass burning (six per cent) are the major sources of locally-generated poll...
09 Jun, 2022, 07.28 PM IST
People living in cities with high PM2.5 levels more likely to get CovidPollution is higher in Delhi, Maharashtra & UP due to fossil fuel-based anthropogenic activities.
02 Jul, 2021, 03.58 PM IST
Household heating, cooking behind 40% of Delhi's PM 2.5 pollution last Dec, Jan: StudyHousehold heating and cooking accounted for 40 per cent of Delhi's PM 2.5 pollution in December 2020 and January 2021, according to a new s...
17 Jun, 2021, 08.29 PM IST
Pune's particulate pollution load increases by more than 60% in past 7 years, says IITM studyAn increase of 70% and 61% has been found in PM2.5 and PM10 pollutants respectively during 2012-13 to 2019-20 in the emission inventory cam...
21 May, 2021, 10.41 PM IST
India's pollution control policies unlikely to improve air quality: StudyThe study, released IIASA and the CEEW in New Delhi, shows that only about 833 million citizens would be living in areas that meet the Nati...
31 Mar, 2019, 01.04 PM IST
Delhi’s solar energy model best for power-hungry cities, says studyNet-metering was introduced in Delhi in 2014. Under this, home owners can either own a solar power system or lease their roof space to proj...
08 Sep, 2017, 10.29 AM IST
Shimla considering odd/even scheme?An European Commission-sponsored study conducted for evaluating green house gas eEmissions in Shimla town has come handy to Shimla Municipa...
30 Apr, 2016, 09.18 PM IST
Ample evidence to prove links of air pollution with premature deaths in India: Dr. Jos LelieveldIn an email interview with ET, Lielieved explains his study, saying the issue of air pollution should be taken up in the soon to be held in...
21 Sep, 2015, 01.49 PM IST
Delhi will record world's largest number of premature deaths due to air pollutionIn another 10 years, Delhi will record the world's largest number of premature deaths due to air pollution among all mega cities in the wor...
18 Sep, 2015, 11.55 AM IST
The dream of a clean Delhi with cleaner fuelsI am a foreigner living in Delhi, but unlike some other foreigners i believe it is neither fair nor helpful to tar it as being “among the m...
19 Jun, 2015, 12.51 PM IST
Air pollution causes 200,000 early deaths each year in USNearly two lakh Americans die early due to air pollution, a new MIT study has claimed.
01 Sep, 2013, 04.20 PM IST
- Environment Day: Warm gas may rise 300% in 4 decades
If electricity consumption in your household continues as it does now and vehicles continue to be used without control in the Mumbai Metrop...
05 Jun, 2012, 09.17 AM IST