In the shadow of Delhi's toxic air and Mumbai's flooded streets, India's urban centres face an environmental reckoning. As ...

Cannabis, or ganja, is practically as old as recorded Indian civilization, with references to the plant being found in some of India’s earliest written texts and myths.

Barrels of jet fuel are being removed from the Stena Immaculate before it is towed to Newcastle. Our use of cleaning products has increased significantly since Covid-19. But some of the products ...

The Meghalaya government is auditing Byrnihat industries for pollution compliance amid rising environmental concerns.

In a gruesome incident, a four-year-old girl was charred to death, while her sister survived, in a massive fire that gutted their house at Sahsniang-B village in Meghalaya’s West Jaiñtia Hills ...

The Meghalaya government has launched an urgent audit of industrial units in Byrnihat following reports identifying it as the most polluted town globally in IQAir’s World Air Quality Report 2024, <br ...

Bhubaneswar: There has been improvement in ambient air in seven Odisha cities in the past year only, forest minister Ganesh ...

In 2021, IQAir reported a PM2.5 concentration in India of 58.1; in 2024, that number decreased to 50.6. India’s leaders have ...

Air pollution is often seen as an urban issue, but its impact on rural areas is just as severe, quietly undermining traditional ways of life. According to a doctor, pollution from agricultural ...

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