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Rising air pollution impacts India’s crop yields and food security

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 9 Jan 2024

To tackle air pollution, scale up monitoring, factor in health and stop ad hoc management say experts

Simrin Sirur 10 Nov 2023
Photo by Karolina Grabowska/ Pexels.

[Explainer] What happens when pharmaceutical pollutants enter the environment?

Mahima Jain 29 Sep 2023

LPG subsidy can increase uptake, but interventions needed to counter myths and improve access

Simrin Sirur 6 Sep 2023

Exploring airshed management as a solution to India’s pollution woes

Simrin Sirur 1 Sep 2023

Study reveals G20 nations increased fossil fuel investments in 2022, defying climate goals

Kundan Pandey 1 Sep 2023
Image shows a man standing in a straw field behind a fire

Behind Punjab’s smoke screen, Madhya Pradesh’s stubble burning problem goes unnoticed

Shailesh Shrivastava 21 Aug 2023

Gig workers in India are exposed to highly polluted air and carcinogens, finds preliminary study

Vandana K. 17 Aug 2023
Harijan colony of Khatoli in Nangal Chaudhary of Mahendergarh district, is the worst affected due to pollution raised by stone crushers.

Residents in Haryana point to stone crushing units for their respiratory troubles and drop in crop yield

Sat Singh 2 Aug 2023

[Commentary] Green credits can be an incentive for cities to take climate action based on local need

Kshitij Singh 26 Jul 2023
Some farmers say that they burn the stubble to keep the fields ready for the next crop in a short period of time. Photo by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay.

Madhya Pradesh ranks second in India in stubble burning, farmers unaware of government schemes

Shailesh Shrivastava 28 Jun 2023
Women of Rupaheli Kala village trying to show the impact of pollution due to the factory nearby. Photo by Parul Kulshrestha.

A Rajasthan village claims factory emissions are impacting health; factory has clean chit from pollution board

Parul Kulshrestha 17 Mar 2023
Image shows a fire on a garbage dump

Brahmapuram fumes over waste

Reema Abraham 13 Mar 2023

[Commentary] India’s air quality monitoring needs rethinking

Moorthy M Nair 27 Jan 2023
A man burning leaves to make charcoal in Mughal Garden, Bijbehara. Photo by Farzana Nisar

Polluted paradise: Kashmir’s worsening air quality is a risk for respiratory illnesses

Farzana Nisar 2 Jan 2023

[Commentary] Lifestyle For Environment is a noble concept, but needs a holistic approach

Dipak Anand, G.V. Gopi 18 Nov 2022

Tracking methane emissions for mitigation

Sahana Ghosh 31 Oct 2022

Stubble burning is back, smothering north India with concerns for the upcoming winter

Vivek Gupta 13 Oct 2022
Anaemia prevalence among women of reproductive age (15 to 49 years of age) will fall from 53% to 39.5% if India’s clean air targets are met. Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg/Wikimedia Commons.

Inhaling particulate matter is increasing the prevalence of anaemia among women of reproductive age

Sahana Ghosh 3 Oct 2022
An electric bus run by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) near Mayur Vihar. Photo by Manish Kumar

Increased e-buses in Delhi could reduce pollution-related mortality, morbidity: study

Manish Kumar 16 Sep 2022