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 …
The news recently published in one of the leading newspapers that the government is bringing out a revised National Transport Policy with a legal provision to convert 20 year-old vehicles to scrap, was fiercely dreaded by transport entrepreneurs and old vehicle owners. It is said that the government has been …
New Delhi: The Energy and Resources Institute has rung alarm bells for the rising ozone levels in the country. Delhi has reason to be especially worried as not only does it suffer from extremely high ozone levels but also tops the list of cities with the highest levels of oxides …
PARIS: European aerospace giant EADS on Sunday unveiled its "Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation" ( Zehst) rocket plane it hopes will be able to fly from Paris to Tokyo in 2.5 hours by around 2050. The low-pollution plane to carry between 50 and 100 passengers will take off using normal engines …
Two-hour withdrawal of fuel-run vehicles on June 5 GUWAHATI, On the occasion of World Environment Day on June 5, an appeal has been made by the Centre for Rural Development (CRD) and Green Revolution for a two-hour withdrawal of fuel-run vehicles across the State. In a press conference in Guwahati …
KOCHI: Forty-three per cent of Kochiites regularly use public transport. This is in addition to the 20 per cent of the population who occasionally used public transport for commuting, says a study on public transport conducted from May 24 to 30 by the Kochi-based Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR). …
A Chittagong mobile court fined 13 different modes of vehicles on charge of polluting environment through emitting black smoke at WASA crossing in the city on Wednesday. The court, led by executive magistrate Rezaul Karim, realised Tk 800 from two private cars, Tk 2,800 from five buses and Tk 1,800 …
Taken at face value, the results of the fourth edition of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA), released 11 March 2011 are sobering. Every person in the country is at 10 times or greater risk for getting cancer from outdoor air pollutants than the agency’s …
Human respiratory epithelia function in airway mucociliary clearance and barrier function and have recently been implicated in sensory functions. The authors investigated a link between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) pathogenesis and molecular mechanisms underlying Ca2+ influx into human airway epithelia elicited by diesel exhaust particles (DEP).
The relationship between traffic emissions and mobile-source air pollutant concentrations is highly variable over space and time and therefore difficult to model accurately, especially in urban settings with complex terrain. Regression-based approaches using continuous real-time mobile measurements may be able to characterize spatiotemporal variability in traffic-related pollutant concentrations but require …
Previous studies have shown associations between air pollution and risk for lung cancer. The authors investigated whether traffic and the concentration of nitrogen oxides (NOx) at the residence are associated with risk for lung cancer.
Little is known about environmental causes and contributing factors for autism. Basic science and epidemiologic research suggest that oxidative stress and inflammation may play a role in disease development. Traffic-related air pollution, a common exposure with established effects on these pathways, contains substances found to have adverse prenatal effects. The …
The present study was undertaken to determine the ambient air quality with respect to suspended particulate matter (TSPM), respirable suspended particulate matter (PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulphur dioxide (SO2) at Sonamarg- a tourist hill station in Kashmir valley. The ambient air quality at three different station namely Sonamarg town, …
An ambient air pollution screening study was performed in Dhaka from 31 January – 15 February 2011. The main objective of the study was to gain an overview of the background concentrations and the spatial distribution of the air pollution in the Dhaka city area. Thorough ambient air quality data …
Despite the increasing pollution levels, the city is yet to implement the Euro IV fuel deadline that was set for October last year. Petrol bunks in the city have not received the fuels conforming to Euro IV till date and most of them are unaware of the existence of such …
Environmentalists Say Hike Will Raise Demand For Diesel, Increasing Emissions New Delhi: The petrol price hike has had car owners fretting but environmentalists too have started raising their voice against what they call an indirect incentivisation of diesel. The move to make petrol more expensive will only push more people …
Teachers in Lucknow University have decided to launch a new initiative to save petrol, counter the escalating petroleum prices and check pollution. The Lucknow University Teachers
