Don’t just blame the city’s cars, factories and building sites. Mountains and weather patterns make it particularly hard for ...

Hundreds of millions of Hindu devotees have bathed in sacred waters, despite concerns over overcrowding and water pollution, ...

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has devised a 10-point action plan to rejuvenate the Yamuna river in Delhi within ...

India's mass bathing festival turned the water sour at the 'holy' river, as pollution and waste tainted the area during the event. The water quality at several locations at the Triveni Sangam in ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to clean the Yamuna River during the Delhi Assembly elections, and following the BJP's ...

Studies suggest that this pollution can also shorten our lifespan by making our bodies age biologically faster. India, the world’s most populated nation and the largest democracy, has been facing the ...

Rivers in Chennai and Salem have been identified as “priority stretches” by the Central Pollution Control Board ... from Avadi to Sathya Nagar is the most contaminated, with a biochemical ...

The World Health Organisation says that over 9 million people prematurely die due to air pollution every year. Most of these premature ... only in the context of India and Pakistan’s commitments ...

For weeks now, most of the friends and families I know have had a cough of some kind. The pollution in the dry ... Winds from China and India have also contributed to the recent haze - earlier ...

according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The maximum temperature was normal for this time of the season, while the minimum was recorded at 10 degrees Celsius, according to the India ...

Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in Australian rivers has revealed. The problem on the reef is getting worse ...