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 …
There's something the hillside retreat of Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh has in common with the industrial town of Korba in Chhattisgarh — both have consistently recorded higher than acceptable particulate matter (PM) levels. Since 2011, at least 94 Indian cities have not met national air quality standards. Many of these …
After New Delhi was engulfed by the worst smog in almost two decades, sales of medicines to treat respiratory disorders have surged in the city and doctors say the number of patients seeking consultations, especially children, has almost doubled since last year. According to doctors, the number of bronchodilator inhalers, …
NEW DELHI: As the capital continued to suffer one of its worst spells of air pollution in living memory and air quality further dipped to the season's lowest on Sunday, the Delhi government finally announced a slew of emergency measures to deal with the public health crisis. All schools have …
According to air quality monitoring network SAFAR, PM2.5 levels are in severe category and are expected to remain in this category for more than three days, it said. The national capital is facing the worst smog in 17 years, a green body said on Thusday while asking the Delhi government …
The Delhi government on Tuesday announced an action plan to deal with the severe pollution this winter. This includes a crackdown on construction sites violating norms, reviving the Swachch Delhi app, re-starting vacuum cleaning of streets and sprinkling of water on arterial roads to tamp down the dust. Deputy CM …
Faced with a shocking jump in the level of air pollution in the capital, the Centre has summoned top officials of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan on Friday to review the action plan agreed by all the states last year to tackle the situation in the entire national …
Sunita Narain of Centre for Science and Environment has been featured in the documentary "Before the Flood", a documentary by Hollywood's Leonardo Di Caprio. "We need to put the issue of lifestyle and consumption at the centre of climate negotiations," says Narain, Director General of Centre for Science and Environment …
Activists said the government had not done enough to combat winter pollution in general. Delhiites breathed in more polluted air this Diwali compared to the last. And if that wasn’t bad enough, government data showed that levels of harmful pollutants in the air peaked at 14 to 16 times the …
Anti-pollution noise falls on deaf ears; PM 2.5 at 14 times the safe limit Awareness campaigns against bursting crackers on Diwali appear not to have dented the festive enthusiasm of citizens of the National Capital, with pollution levels rising dramatically on Sunday night. While high smoke and pollution levels have …
Delhiites on Thursday inhaled severely poor quality air which had respirable pollutants up to nine times above the safe limit at certain places even as authorities warned of a "critically polluted" period ahead. Anand Vihar, the city's pollution hotspot, had PM 1O (suspended particulate matter) at over 962 micrograms per …
Concentration levels of harmful particulate matter were on average three times the standards. With days to go before Diwali, when pollution levels usually peak due to firecracker use, the air quality across the city was very poor on Thursday. And the forecast for the next few days did not look …
They are cheap and bright, but are very often dangerous. Many Chinese-made firecrackers use the highly unstable chemical potassium chlorate — which is the main reason they are banned in India. Three days before Diwali, the heat is on Chinese fireworks. The Delhi government has put together 11 special teams …
The Supreme Court of India-appointed Environmental Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority for Delhi & NCR (EPCA) mandated to improve the air quality in Delhi-NCR, introduced the Hawa Badlo App here today. According to Shri Bhure Lal, chairperson, EPCA: "The App aims at an inclusive participation of citizens in reporting incidences …
NEW DELHI: Brace for severely poor air quality this Diwali, primarily due to two reasons: one, pollution levels are already high because of massive agricultural-residue burning in neighbouring states and, two, weather conditions are unlikely to be favourable for dispersion of pollutants emitted on Diwali. Locally, too, waste burning is …
A year after the Delhi government said it was considering stricter norms for noise pollution from firecrackers, the proposal seems to have been forgotten. West Bengal had banned firecrackers that emitted sound more than 90 decibels — the country-wide norm is 125 db. Anything above 70 db is considered unsafe …
Shoppers throng markets to buy firecrackers as authorities struggle to implement ban on highly polluting crackers; govt. says public cooperation is needed Despite a ban on highly polluting imported fireworks and strict air and noise emission norms for crackers made in India, firecrackers that emit toxic gases and particulate matter …
The state government was to have inducted 3,000 buses by now to check air pollution in Delhi. But with the transport department pleading that there was no depot space available for any additional fleet, it is unlikely that public transport will have a role to play in improving air quality …
Diwali is a week away but the capital's air quality has already plunged to "very poor" levels, breaching the hazardous "red zone" on Sunday for the first time this season - a level, if sustained for three straight days, prompts Beijing authorities to shut factories and curb outdoor activities. Delhi's …
It achieved most of its goals with the legally-binding HFC phase-down agreement One of the reasons that make the recently-concluded climate conference in Kigali, Rwanda, notable is that 197 countries came together and signed the first legally-binding climate treaty of the 21st century. At the 28th Meeting of Parties of …
The Delhi government apparently has not chalked out any plans as yet to implement the odd-even scheme as an emergency measure this winter. Though officials remained tightlipped and no one was available for comment, sources said nothing concrete had been discussed as yet. No alternative action plan to deal with …
