The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
GURUGRAM: The Haryana Board of School Education (HBSE) has declared new timings for schools after air quality index (AQI) and particulate matter (PM) levels hit the 'very poor' level . The move was triggered after government school teachers unanimously wrote a letter to the director of the state elementary education …
AQI for Capital reaches 448; authorities ordered to boost public transport and curb dust pollution Air pollution in the Capital reached severe levels on Tuesday forcing the implementation of stringent emission-control measures and health precautions, including closing of primary schools on Wednesday. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), …
New Delhi: Till not long ago, Anand Vihar had the dubious distinction of being the pollution hotspot of the city. However, that is no longer the case — not because the situation there has improved, but simply due to the fact that 11 new locations being monitored by the Delhi …
NEW DELHI: Even as Kathmandu has resolutely curbed the use of horns on roads, Delhi — despite a number of awareness campaigns against honking and noise pollution — continues to record high street noise, with major intersections logging decibel levels over 100 dB. In fact, a driver steps out with …
Calcutta: A recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme has suggested that the Paris Agreement would fail to restrict the global temperature rise within 2°C, as agreed at the Paris climate summit of 2015. It says that even if all the countries fully meet their commitments to cut emissions …
The Environment Ministry has proposed to relax the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) plan by reducing the e-waste collection targets for industries. With 1.7 million tonnes of e-waste generated annually (2014 record), India is the fifth largest generator of e-waste globally with an unorganised market of about 95 per cent dealing …
An apex court-mandated authority directed the discoms in the city to provide temporary power connections within 24 hours of receiving applications in view of a region-wide ban on the use of diesel generator sets. The Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) issued the direction to tackle the large number …
The Lancet Countdown 2017, a global research study of various climate change indicators, has flagged the health impact of PM2.5 (fine, respirable pollution particles) in India, suggesting that air pollution contributed to more than 5.2 lakh premature death in the country in 2015. The report released in London on Monday …
The Centre has proposed to fix emission standards for 21 industries, including sugar and leather, using cheap but highly polluting fuel petcoke. According to the draft gazette notification, put up the Union Environment Ministry's website, the 21 industries that use petroleum coke or its blends will have to adhere to …
A total of 55 new stations were supposed to be set up by the end of 2017. However, as per the report, only about 10 monitoring stations have been added so far, excluding the ones set up in Delhi. A Graded Response Action Plan was set up last year in …
The Graded Response Action Plan or GRAP, which promises to take strict action to control air pollution in Delhi and the National Capital Region, cannot replace urgent long-term action, experts say New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed pollution watchdog recently implemented a Graded Response Action Plan or GRAP, which promises to …
Furnace oil and pet-coke are the dirtiest by-products from the refinery process and use of these fuels was banned in Delhi in 1996. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday banned the use of petroleum coke -- a cheap but dirty fuel -- in New Delhi's neighbouring states, the latest …
Wind picks up over the last 24 hours, helping disperse pollutants that had formed a smog layer but air still unhealthy, say experts While the air quality in the Capital improved a bit on Sunday from 'severe' to 'very poor', experts said it was still 'unhealthy' and more efforts were …
This scheme empowers mining districts to levy a charge on all mining operations to create a fund that would be used to mitigate harmful effects of mining and to benefit local people At present, if a company has a mine with 10 mt capacity but is extracting only four mt, …
Let's take stock of what we have done and what needs to be done for the right to clean air It’s that time of the year again. The winter is closing in. The cold will bring inversion and trap the pollutants close to the ground on which we breathe. But …
GURGAON: It will be difficult, if not impossible, to extend the ban on diesel gensets that kicked in on October 17 in Delhi to its immediate neighbours in NCR - Gurgaon in the south and Noida and Ghaziabad in the east. Outages are a daily affair in all three NCR …
The Supreme Court, earlier this month, has imposed a temporary ban on the sale of the firecrackers in Delhi-NCR region during Diwali this year to check the alarming air pollution level. New Delhi: The air quality in Delhi is likely to turn 'severe' and may even enter the "emergency" zone …
Nagpur: The state's agriculture department has sought views on a proposal to suspend the sale and use of five types of pesticides which were found to be used by victims of the killer spray in the cotton fields of Vidarbha. Thirty-nine farmers have died in different districts of the region …
NEW DELHI: In a move that will impact marketplaces, housing societies and the upcoming wedding season, diesel generator sets were banned in the capital from Tuesday as the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to improve Delhi's air quality during the high-pollution winter months kicked in. The ban was among a …
body { padding-left:2%; padding-right:2%; max-width:850px; } Lists key areas of concern, which require short term and long term action to combat deadly air pollution in NCR In November 2016, the Supreme Court of India directed the government to frame and implement a Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to control air …
