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Going beyond AQI: study shows why toxicity matters in measuring air pollution

May 31, 2025 12:20 am

The study, by Abhijit Chatterjee of the Bose Institute, Kolkata, and two of his former PhD students, Abhinandan Ghosh and Monami Dutta, is the first attempt at investigating how toxicity of air pollution changes with concentration levels in Indian cities.

Oil spill risk after container ship carrying ‘hazardous cargo’ capsizes off Kerala, coastal areas put on alert

May 26, 2025 10:03 am

Kerala Coast Cargo Warning: A Liberian-flagged container vessel, MSC ELSA 3, started tilting 38 nautical miles off the coast of Kochi on Saturday.

A brief history of biodiversity and our current crisis

October 08, 2024 10:34 am

How did the mass extinction around 66 million years ago allow mammals to fill the ecological space left behind and shape the biodiversity we see today?

Paris Olympics 2024 triathlon event postponed due to water pollution concerns; here's how it can affect athletes

July 31, 2024 1:27 pm

Water pollution damages not only the ecosystem but also human health.

Best of Both Sides: To combat pollution, policymakers and public alike need to see economic benefits

November 11, 2023 8:12 am

We all agree that air pollution is a problem and know many of the solutions. Changemakers will emerge not just from the technical consensus on the ‘how’ but a social consensus on the ‘why’

Best of Both Sides: To combat pollution, use of personal vehicles must decrease

November 11, 2023 7:54 am

With a staggering 280 lakh daily trips expected to be generated in the city, Delhi could collapse if a sizable shift to cars occurs in the absence of an adequate public transport system

Express View on pollution shortening Indian lives: A toll of air

September 01, 2023 7:05 am

Conclusions of Chicago University study shouldn't be papered over. Political class must take ownership of pollution problem

Nigerian teens create fashion from trash to fight pollution

November 22, 2022 11:46 am

This year’s show came just as world leaders wrapped up two weeks of U.N. climate talks in Egypt.

World Environment Day 2022: History, importance and why it is celebrated

June 04, 2022 3:57 pm

The 2022 World Environment Day campaign #OnlyOneEarth focuses on climate action, nature action and pollution action while encouraging everyone, everywhere to live sustainably.

Tripura adopts EV policy, to convert 10% of state's vehicles to electric mode in 5 years

May 25, 2022 9:40 am

Tripura's Information and Cultural Affairs minister Sushanta Chowdhury said the government is committed to increasing electric-based mobility since it would reduce air pollution and would be helpful in promoting eco-friendly tourism.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION PHOTOS

The youth joins hands for a beach clean-up drive in Mumbai on World Earth Day 2022

April 22, 2022 2:36 pm

"Earth Day" which is also known as the International Mother Earth Day is observed on April 22 every year since 1970.

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