Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
China will step up efforts to develop energy-saving internal combustion engines and promote their use in coming years to reduce emissions, according to a guideline issued by the State Council. Energy-saving internal combustion engines will account for 60 percent of the total engines in use by 2015, the guideline issued …
Pune: The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation is planning to purchase 500 CNG buses, the tendering process for which is expected to start from March. While most of the buses will be used in Mumbai region, at least 15 of them will be introduced on the Pune-Mumbai route on an …
MUMBAI: Vehicular pollution is the main reason for the heavy winter smog and the bad air Mumbaikars are breathing. The number of vehicles per kilometer of road length in the city is 647, a situation the authorities call alarming. Experts say this forces vehicles to drive at speeds from 5 …
China's capital of Beijing has set a target of completing environmentally friendly renovations on all its coal-fired heating furnaces by 2015. Inefficient coal burning is considered one of the major causes of lingering smog in the city, which is dependent on fossil fuels for centralized heating during its four-month-long winter. …
Mumbai's weather has gone from pleasantly cold to stiflingly hot in a matter of days, but the fog that continues to envelop the city is an indicator of the poison Mumbaikars have been inhaling. The weather, along with the city's congested roads and constant construction activity, has resulted in pollution …
This article focuses on air and water pollution in India's cities, provides empirical evidence to demonstrate the seriousness of the challenges, discusses the relevant policies of national and local governments that are used to address the challenges, and presents relevant political economy issues related to introducing pollution taxes or other …
Beijing: Growing public outrage against rising pollution levels in China’s burgeoning cities has found a new focus: state-owned oil companies. Most of these conglomerates are accused of raking in billions of dollars by buying low-grade fuel and avoiding the need to invest in de-sulphurization of fuel without which the smog-filled …
China's cabinet has issued a timetable for oil companies to deliver cleaner fuel nationwide beginning this year, the Xinhua news agency reported, but the new standards won't become mandatory for four years despite rising public anger over choking air pollution. Thick smog has blanketed many Chinese cities in recent weeks …
Coal-dependent power generation sees India bottom of a ranking for emissions from electric cars, with Paraguay top Paraguay is the greenest place on earth to make and drive an electric car, according to analysis by independent research group, Shrink That Footprint, which has assessed the impact of grid-powered electric vehicles …
Exposure Of Moms-To-Be To Car Fumes Tied To Low Birth Weight, Postnatal Mortality London: Scientists may have found the major reason why 1 in every 4 babies born in India (of the 2.6crore births in India annually) are of low weight (below 2.5kg). A worldwide study announced on Wednesday has …
Particulate pollution linked with up to 10% increased risk of low-weight babies, international study of 3m births finds Sooty air pollution in towns and cities increases the chances of women giving birth to small babies, new research has shown. A study involving millions of births around the world found that …
The Motor Traffic Department (DMT) has taken steps to ban vehicles with high smoke emissions in an attempt to reduce air-pollution in the City of Colombo. The DMT is currently in the process of making arrangements to purchase 45 machines from the German government at a cost of Rs. 50 …
Hundreds of heavy trucks, entering and leaving the industrial area everyday, are causing air and noise pollution in the federal capital and disturbance among the sector's residents. Resident of the industrial areas told APP that the number of noise, dust and smoke complaints from the area were steadily increasing with …
Residents of the Indian capital, who thought they had conquered air pollution a decade ago, are once again choking on exhaust fumes and dust and New Delhi has regained its status as one of the world’s dirtiest cities, according to environmental campaigners and official air quality data. Scientists have sounded …
A government scientist said on Friday that air quality in New Delhi has worsened this week and is now "very poor," although it should not be compared to China's capital which has been reeling recently under massive pollution. Gurfan Baig of the state-run Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology said that …
Energy-saving technologies and a doubling in renewables led to the reduction in climate pollution, new figures show America's carbon dioxide emissions last year fell to their lowest levels since 1994, according to a new report. Carbon dioxide emissions fell by 13% in the past five years, because of new energy-saving …
The US is consuming energy considerably more efficiently and with lower emissions than just five years ago thanks to a slew of modern technologies that are changing decades-old patterns, research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance and industry group the Business Council for Sustainable Energy find in a new report. The …
Around 25 percent people in Sylhet district have been suffering from acute Respiratory Tract Infection (RTI) due to air pollution caused by the black smoke-emitting unfit vehicles. According to sources, sale of lead-mixed fuel including diesel, petrol and kerosene by a section of dishonest dealers and agents continues in the …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government has planned Mass Transit System for Peshawar under technical assistance of Asian Development Bank (ADB) to provide quality transport service to people of the city. KPK Minister for Transport, Information and Inter Provincial Coordination, Mian Iftikhar Hussain said while talking to media at a press conference …
