The observations came in an order passed by an NGT bench in Bhopal while hearing a suo motu case based on a newspaper report ...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has ordered immediate measures to combat water pollution, citing 2 lakh annual deaths and a ...

In India, much of the population breathes air that is 10 times more polluted than what the World Health Organization considers safe. In a study released April 15 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, ...

In November 2024, during the U.N. climate conference (COP29) in Baku, India sharply criticized the new climate finance package, which promises $300 billion annually for the Global South by 2035. The ...

The Delhi Pollution Control Committee’s (DPCC) latest data on the water quality status of the Yamuna for March shows a further rise in the faecal coliform levels, as compared to the months of January ...

Jaigaon, a densely populated town on India’s border with Bhutan, is facing a crisis of poor waste disposal, reports contributor Chandrani Sinha for Mongabay India. Much of the town’s plastic, ...

Ganga water meets bathing standards at all monitored locations and pollution levels in the river are declining, according to the government. In a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of ...

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This October, residents of Delhi breathed a sigh of relief – ten days into the month, the air quality was still in the “moderate” category, uncharacteristic for this time of the year. Usually, by this ...

When taking off or landing at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, India, it’s impossible to miss seeing the tight patchwork of hundreds, if not thousands, of flat roofs ...