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 …
Environmental scientists say ozone, which is a particularly critical pollutant, has emerged as a concern in Delhi in the last few years. The prevailing high temperatures have contributed to a spike in ozone levels to over double the permissible limits in some parts of the city in the last 10 …
New Delhi: Alarmed over a report about poor ambient air quality inside its premises, Delhi High Court on Thursday castigated its own concerned panel for not doing anything on the issue, saying it was "unacceptable" that everyone going there was at risk. Taking note of an air quality monitoring report …
The government says emission from old diesel vehicles is not to be blamed. Experts say government is selectively using data to make its case What is poisoning Delhi's air and making India's capital the most polluted city in the world? The government has taken on the National Green Tribunal, contesting …
Day temperatures dropped marginally on Thursday but there was hardly any relief for weather-beaten Delhiites as toxins in the air rose alarmingly due to a cloud cover trapping pollutants. The capital's air quality index (AQI) breached the 'severe' level, going from 219 (poor) on Wednesday to 410 in one of …
Here is more bad news for Delhiites. The Capital is now witnessing a rise in night-time temperature. And in worse news, the number of heat wave days has been showing an ascending trend, warns the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). “Climate records show that human-induced global warming had turned …
The intense heat wave sweeping across India could be another manifestation of an extreme weather event, a green body on Thursday said, warning that more heat waves were in the offing due to rise in global temperatures. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) also noted that about 2,000 people have …
Against a target of $100 billion by 2020, the Fund has so far raised only $5.5 billion Even when it was agreed upon in 2010, it was considered inadequate. Nations were to pool in money into the Green Climate Fund, the financial mechanism of the UN Framework Convention on Climate …
Centre for Science and Environment says cities feel the brunt of the elevated temperatures, because of the magnified effect of paved surfaces and a lack of tree cover. The intense heat wave sweeping across India could be another manifestation of an extreme weather event, a green body on Thursday said, …
Despite widespread perception, the NDA government's record of giving green clearances has "not" been different from the previous UPA regime and it has brought "selective" changes to regulations in the name of streamlining the system without strengthening grass-root institutions, a green body today said. In an assessment of NDA government's …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based think-tank on green issues, on Tuesday said the NDA government's record was not as bad as feared but there had been no major reforms so far to improve the green clearance processes for safeguarding the environment. It also noted that the …
The NDA government’s record of giving green clearances has not been different from the previous UPA regime and it has brought “selective” changes to regulations in the name of streamlining the system without strengthening grass-root institutions, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Tuesday said. In an assessment of NDA …
NEW DELHI: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi-based think-tank on green issues, on Tuesday said the NDA government's record was not as bad as feared but there had been no major reforms so far to improve the green clearance processes for safeguarding the environment and livelihoods of communities. …
NEW DELHI: Despite widespread perception, the NDA government's record of giving green clearances has "not" been different from the previous UPA regime and it has brought "selective" changes to regulations in the name of streamlining the system without strengthening grass-root institutions, a green body today said. In an assessment of …
An environment watch group today claimed the Union government is trying to underplay emissions from diesel vehicles older than 10 years that have been banned by the National Green Tribunal from plying in Delhi and the National Capital Region. The Union ministry of road transport and highways has told the …
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Monday alleged that the Centre resorted to "selective use" of studies by IIT-Delhi to argue that vehicles were minor contributors to PM 2.5 (fine, respirable particles) levels and that banning older diesel vehicles would not help in improving the city's air quality. The …
Activist body, best known for raising the pesticide in colas issue a decade before, say enforcement of food regulation must get stringent as consumption of packaged stuff grows Nestle’s travails with regulatory authorities over its Maggi brand last week is a wake-up call for food & beverage companies, says Delhi-based …
When the AAP government came to power in February, Delhi's air pollution had touched the danger level with PM 2.5 (fine, respirable particles) remaining 10 times higher than the limit prescribed by WHO. In fact, just ahead of AAP's victory, WHO's urban air quality database had ranked Delhi to be …
PUNE: Expressing concern about the city and the region losing its wetlands to untamed urbanisation, experts have demanded that urban ecology should be a part of the city's infrastructure development plan. "Urbanisation in Pune is a pervasive and rapidly-growing form of change in land use. Especially, the encroachment around water …
Why this weird weather? Why have western disturbances - the extra-tropical storms that originate in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic oceans - been lashing us again and again, with devastating impacts on agriculture? Is this normal? Or has weird weather become the new definition of normal? The India Meteorological Department …
National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently sought views from the Centre and NCR states on carpooling, asking them as to what incentives they could offer to promote the scheme. Carpooling is a grey area in the capital with no policy or even guidelines for verification of car owners and passengers, sharing …
