Overall Calcutta’s average PM 2.5 value in the 2020-21 winter, 94 microgram per cubic meter of air, stood second among metro cities...

The pollution station within Rabindra Bharati University recorded the highest AQI value of 380; the station at BITM in Ballygunge area showed 359 followed by 355 at then Jadavpur station...

The PCB proposal came in the wake of the recently finalised state-level action plan to combat air pollution...

National Environmental Engineering Research Institute study found laundry stalls contribute 0.14 per cent of PM10 pollutant and 0.29 per cent of PM2.5 pollutant...

Goods vehicles worsen air quality; need for ‘local plan’...

Environmentalist points to garbage burning, higher number of vehicles on roads as possible causes ...

Bengal pollution board behind initiative, to hand out gadgets to police...

A model immersion system was created in two ponds; followed NGT and NMCG guidelines...

WBPCB has decided to experiment with immersion in ponds...

This is being done once early in the morning and again in the evening...