The construction sector has emerged as a significant yet often overlooked contributor to worsening air quality in India.

Mumbai: In a move that will enable the anti-pollution machinery to act swiftly upon the rise in pollutants in air, the state ...

Economic losses were in the billions. Pollution takes many forms in India, including the use of poorly-ventilated stoves and open fires for cooking inside dwellings. Photo by Mark Katzman. Air ...

Air pollution crisis finally in focus ahead of tight Delhi election - India’s capital of over 33 million people has long ...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The western Indian state of Maharashtra has formed a panel to study a proposal to ban petrol and diesel ...

According to a 2018 World Health Organisation study, of the world’s 15 cities with the highest air pollution, 14 are in India ... “Right now, pollution control boards in each state oversee ...

Delhi gets all the attention, but other parts of northern India are also dealing with toxic air. Toxic, deadly, poisonous - these words are back in the headlines as Delhi’s pollution spikes again.

Data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB ... Increasing green cover in urban areas to act as natural air filters. Air Pollution: A Leading Cause of Death and Economic Burden in India World ...

Byrnihat, a town on the Assam-Meghalaya border, has been declared India's most polluted city for the second consecutive year, ...

This has put KSPCB on the list of bottom five SPCBs when it comes to insufficient usage of funds. The only other state ...

In 2021, air pollution was a major global killer, contributing to 8.1 million deaths worldwide. India and China bore ... disease prevention and control programs," Pant said. Exposure to air ...