Page 12 - Air Pollution In India

Give UP, Haryana, Punjab farmers machines to help stop stubble burning: PM

This came on a day the Supreme Court lashed out at authorities for failing to curb severe air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region.

Delhi air pollution: SC raps states, asks 'how can you let people die'

Venugopal said that areas in Punjab and Haryana can be divided into zones and stubble burning can be allowed in a particular zone on a given day.

Action plan for Delhi

Pollution requires a holistic response

PM Modi reviews Delhi's air pollution, Gujarat cyclone situations

Principal Secretary to Prime Minister PK Mishra and Principal Advisor to Prime Minister PK Sinha were amongst those present in the meeting

Don't blame farmers for air pollution, set up rice bio-parks: Swaminathan

In South India, stubble is not burnt as there is economic value as animal feed, he said sharing he had been pointing out for years many economic usage of rice straw.

Why should we pay other states to stop stubble burning, AAP asks Javadekar

Delhi has been witnessing one of the worst episodes of air pollution for the past few days

Air quality turns 'severe' in Delhi-NCR; public health emergency declared

The EPCA asked implementing agencies to take immediate stringent action to stop stubble-burning in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana

Unsatisfactory progress

Air quality in the capital remains unhealthy

Delhi air pollution: 19 flights cancelled, over 550 delayed and 37 diverted

Airlines caught off guard due to untimely low visibility conditions in first week of November

Arvind Kejriwal says issue of Delhi pollution should not be 'politicised'

Keriwal said his government was not indulging in "blame game" but looking for solutions to pollution caused by stubble burning.

Delhi air pollution: Principal Secretary to PM holds high-level meeting

P K Mishra, the principal secretary to the prime minister, reviewed the situation arising out of severe air pollution in the National Capital Region, and other parts of north India

Air pollution: 40% Delhi-NCR residents want to move to other cities

The survey with over 17,000 respondents from Delhi and NCR region has found that 13 per cent resident believe that they have no option but to cope with rising pollution levels

Air Tamer A-310 review: Great idea, but not yet an answer to air pollution

Priced at Rs 9,999, the Air Tamer A-310 embodies the concept of portable air purifiers that may substitute traditional ones, but that does not seem likely just yet

EV no answer to air pollution: Chicago professor Michael Greenstone

Michael Greenstone is currently helping Gujarat, Maharashtra tackle pollutants

How a Gurugram-based start-up converts air pollutants into ink and paint

Founded by IIT-Delhi graduates, it recently raised Rs 19 crore in Series A round led by IAN Fund, along with IDFC Parampara fund and Jyoti Sagar

India may save 270,000 lives a year by curbing dirty fuel emissions: Study

Eliminating emissions from these sources -- without any changes to industrial or vehicle emissions -- would bring the average outdoor air pollution levels below the country's air quality standard

If Los Angeles and Beijing can fix their air quality, why can't Delhi?

Business Standard takes stock of the things Delhi-NCR has done and needs to do in order to control air pollution

Dust from roads, household cooking make 22-52% of air pollution: UNEP

Some cities in India attribute more than half of their PM2.5 to this dust

87% Indians would buy electric vehicles if that reduced pollution: survey

Transportation accounts for about 11 per cent of India's carbon emissions and is a major source for air pollution in several cities nationwide.

Air pollution cuts short an average Indian's life by 1.5 years: Study

This is the first time data on air pollution and lifespan has been studied together in order to examine the global variations to find out how they affect the overall life expectancy