Multan, Pakistan, experienced hazardous smog levels on Friday, with its Air Quality Index (AQI) exceeding 2,000. The Punjab government decl...

A new study in the International Journal of Environmental Studies revealed heavy metals like chromium, copper, zinc, molybdenum, and lead i...

A government official said Delhi will be better prepared to deal with the situation next year and major focus will be on vehicular emission...

A special bench, led by CJI NV Ramana, acting on a PIL, has been asking the government what it has done so far to arrest the crippling poll...

As per the Ministry of Environment and Forests' latest figures, stubble burning contributed only 4% of PM5 and PM10 levels, the bench said....

The CJI also pointed out to non-stop bursting of crackers, despite a court-ordered ban, and vehicular movement. "Some percentage of the pol...

Terming the rise in air pollution in Delhi-NCR an ''emergency'' situation, the Supreme Court on Saturday suggested clamping a lockdown in t...

Getting vehicles off the road may do wonders for smog, but there's more to air pollution than that. The shift away from vehicles powered by...

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has looked for three additional months to finish the development of an exhaust cloud tower at An...

"In Delhi-NCR, one of the major factors that led to the drop in pollution was a 97 per cent reduction in overall traffic and 91 per cent re...

The coal-fired units of Dadri (NTPC plant) are closed since October, but the ambient air quality and AQI of NCR have been deteriorating day...

With no construction activity during the majority part of the last year, first due to pollution ban and then due to lockdown, the developer...

While many Indian cities are highly polluted, Delhi — being the capital of the country — has come to be regarded as the symbol of urban pol...

The economic impact was calculated by estimating factors like work absences and years lost due to illness. Measured on a per capita basis, ...

Within days, millions of displaced migrant workers were coursing out of big Indian cities.

As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. Smog stopped ch...

Last year, India had accounted for around half of the world's 50 most polluted cities.