Fixed recycling quotas would help to reduce waste and production of virgin plastic. So too would introducing legislation to make manufacturers produce packaging, clothing, and vehicles in a more susta...

A workshop of the Jharkhand State Pollution Control Board forged a consensus on bringing a development roadmap on carbon neutrality and putting an accountability regime for robust carbon budgeting to ...

Several complaints regarding waterbody fill-up and administrative inaction have prompted the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to create a mechanism to ensure that each such complaint is looked into...

India’s current safe limit for the fine particulate matter called PM2.5, used to grade air quality, is not low enough to protect vulnerable people from illness and needs to be revised downwards,...

How is indoor air pollution affecting asthma? According to the Global Asthma Report 2018 , out of 1.31 billion people, six per cent children and two per cent adults suffer from asthma in India. Asthm...

The special bench of the National Green Tribunal has passed a series of directives on H.K. Dwivedi, the chief secretary of the West Bengal government, on minimising pollution in the Kestopur and Bagjo...

The eastern zonal bench of the National Green Tribunal has constituted a committee to probe the allegation by environmentalist Subhas Datta on rejuvenation of Tolly’s Nullah. Specific orders we...

The West Bengal government will replace its existing fleet of buses with 1,200 electric buses in phases in an attempt to reduce carbon footprint and pollution from vehicles, transport minister Firhad ...

Ninety-four per cent women construction workers, surveyed as part of a study conducted in Delhi, never raised their voice or took any steps to prevent the negative impact of air pollution because of t...

According to the recently-updated The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, approximately nine million global deaths in 2019 can be attributed to pollution. Of these, ambient air pollution was re...