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Smoke from the wildfires north of San Francisco plunged air quality levels in the Bay Area.

Science

Choking smoke over San Francisco causes delays, closures

The region has endured days of choking smoke and claimed at least 31 lives and demolished thousands of homes and...

14 Oct 2017 11:34 AM IST

The tribunal said there cannot be any worst source of air pollution than burning of carbon and plastic. (Photo: PTI)

Metros

Green bench orders inspection of illegal industries in northwest Delhi

NGT said that these illegal industries would be liable to pay environment compensation which it would fix later after...

12 Oct 2017 4:21 PM IST

People buying fire-crackers near Jama Masjid in old Delhi. (Photo: AP)

Metros

Supreme Court bans cracker sale in NCR this Diwali

Rs 500 crore approximately worth of business of firecrackers in Delhi.

10 Oct 2017 2:51 AM IST

Life

Air pollution exposure reduces children's working memory

The study was conducted by researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health in Spain.

8 Oct 2017 2:47 PM IST

A report released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) yesterday says every third child in Delhi has impaired lungs. (Photo: Pixabay)

Life

Lung capacity of Indians 30 per cent lower than N Americans

Indians are highly vulnerable to diabetes, heart attacks because of poor lung capacity.

29 Nov 2017 2:49 PM IST

A traffic policeman, wearing an anti-pollution mask,controls traffic amid smog and air pollution which continues to be above dangerous level.

Opinion

Mystic Mantra: Spiritual cure for air pollution

According to Islamic ethics, protection of air from pollutants is an individual sacred duty of every human being on...

28 Nov 2017 5:22 AM IST

Air pollution also increases the lifelong risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer (Photo: AFP)

Metros

CSE: Every third child in city has impaired lungs

The report by the Centre for Science and Environment said air pollution causes 30 per cent of all premature deaths in...

28 Nov 2017 1:31 AM IST

Metros

SC to AAP govt: Take steps to curb air toxicity

Steps also to include ban on sale, possession, bursting of fire crackers.

25 Nov 2017 1:18 AM IST

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Study sees link between pollution and sperm size, some sceptical

The team stressed the link was merely "observational", which means they cannot definitively state that air pollution was...

22 Nov 2017 10:10 AM IST

Dust billows as a worker grinds the concrete divider of an under-construction flyover as vehicle drive through smog covered New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

Metros

Air quality again slips to very poor'

Chances of it deteriorating further in coming days less, says govt body.

21 Nov 2017 1:48 AM IST

New Delhi and several other North Indian states have been enveloped with toxic smog for over a week, forcing authorities to enforce emergency measures. (Photo: PTI)

Metros

Delhi: Air quality becomes very poor' again

The Central Pollution Control Board's (CPCB) National Air Quality Index has Delhi in the 'very poor' zone with a score...

20 Nov 2017 6:20 PM IST

Metros

Emissions, dust reasons for rise in air toxicity'

The EPCA mentioned it separately under a section addressing quantum vs toxicity.

20 Nov 2017 6:19 AM IST