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 …
National capital Delhi will within two months impose a tax on commercial vehicles entering the city and prohibit the use of cars on certain busy routes once every month, transport minister Gopal Rai said on Tuesday. High pollution levels have worried environmentalists, public and the authorities in the city of …
Why are Delhiites forced to pay with their health for truckers to use the city as a transit route? The CSE survey found that it is economical for truckers. “It is cheaper to travel through Delhi than to take alternative roads. The road that cuts through the Capital has a …
Delhiites are in for a worse winter with the stifling air quality aggravating the condition of those with compromised lung function. One of the culprits is the trucks that pass through the Capital causing pollution. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released a report on the entry of trucks …
Terming the upcoming climate change conference in Paris as "important", a noted green economist today claimed that the summit's failure would "dramatically increase" the risk of global environmental catastrophe. Noting that the Indian government's 'Smart City' project should not be limited to just data management, German economist Ralf Fucks who …
The Supreme Court on Monday seriously mulled slapping an additional surcharge on commercial vehicles entering Delhi to deter them from entering the city and causing acute air pollution that has forced Chief Justice of India HL Dattu's grandson to wear "a mask" and made the entire Salve family, the first …
Diesel fumes from heavy commercial vehicles are choking the capital and these trucks push up the air pollution level by several notches higher than what official estimates tell us. Harish Salve, the Supreme Court-appointed amicus curiae on air pollution matters, filed an application on Monday highlighting lack of action to …
With densely-populated areas in the city, especially Punjabi Bagh and R.K. Puram, showing high levels of ozone, environmentalists and doctors have expressed their concern over their adverse effect on children, dengue patients, and those with compromised respiratory function. “In the dengue season, stressed respiratory function with high levels of ozone …
A study reveals that the zinc levels are 15 times more than the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) standards in the soil samples collected from near river Ramganga at Moradabad, known for its e-waste recycling industry.Quoting specialists, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said that since most of the …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday asked the Haryana government to submit air pollution data to substantiate the actual impact of Gurgaon's experiment with Car-Free Day on Tuesday. The expected improvement in air quality due to lesser number of cars on the roads may be crucial in determining the …
CSE study shows e-waste recycling leading to heavy metal contamination in Moradabad Moradabad gets 50 per cent of all PCBs used in India, and 90 tonnes of e-waste everyday CSE collected soil and water samples from five locations India does not have heavy metal contamination standards for soil Zinc levels …
CSE reviews Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojna (PMKKKY), finds it a mixed bag of opportunities NEW DELHI, September 23: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has analysed the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojna (PMKKKY) in the context of the recently notified rules on the District Mineral Foundation (DMF). …
On September 16, 2015, the Central Government launched the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY). The scheme has been noted by the Ministry of Mines as “a revolutionary and unprecedented scheme of its kind, which will transform the lives of people living in areas which are affected directly or …
As Delhi grapples with congested roads and the increasing volume of traffic, its PWD minister has an interesting take on the problem. Satyendar Jain says that the city has sufficient road length required to accommodate the 82 lakh registered vehicles, but poor road engineering has let the traffic managers down. …
Delhi has around 70 flyovers, the most for any city in India. They were built to give cars direct and smooth transitions past railway crossings and traffic bottlenecks. Ironically, it is now common to run into a traffic jam on stretches leading to and away from a flyover. After decades …
This is our season of despair. This year, it would seem, the gods have been most unkind to Indian farmers. Early in the year came the weird weather events, like hailstorms and freak and untimely rains that destroyed standing crops. Nobody knew what was happening. After all, each year we …
Delhi is dangerous for cyclists. Last year 820 out 1,629 traffic fatalities were of people on bicycles. This year, the Delhi Traffic Police says that cyclists account for 330 of the 750 fatalities till now. But this is not surprising. A glance at any street indicates the government's priorities on …
Impressed by the solar power policy of India’s national capital of Delhi, the country’s Centre for Science and Environment has urged the central government to implement the same policy across the country. According to the provisions of the Delhi rooftop solar power policy, all buildings constructed after September 1, 2015, …
Delhi has over 82 lakh registered motor vehicles. Of them, only 40,947 are buses. The skew probably explains the city's gridlocked mess, for traffic experts say that the only solution to road congestion in the capital lies in using the humble bus judiciously. And yet, it is the bus that …
The monsoon dried up early over north India this year and Delhiites are already facing the consequences. With rains gone, the air quality in the capital started deteriorating sharply and has been in the 'poor' zone since August 28 — almost a month ahead of the normal trend. The early …
Delhiites may as well gear up for another bleak winter. Despite National Green Tribunal's interventions to reduce air pollution in NCR, the sluggish attitude of the Centre and states seems to have thrown a spanner in its works. Over the past one-and-a-half months after NGT took up the issue of …
