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Funds remain underutilised by regulators in one of the most polluted regions of India

Vivek Gupta 2 May 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

[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
Western Ghats in Kerala. Photo by Shagil Kannur/Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists aim to study how aerosols impact rainfall in the Western Ghats, but it’s complicated

Mohit M. Rao 1 Dec 2022

Staff crunch ailing state pollution control boards in India, finds think tank analysis

Manish Kumar 4 Nov 2022

Tracking methane emissions for mitigation

Sahana Ghosh 31 Oct 2022

India needs legal framework for closing mines and power plants

Kundan Pandey 25 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

[Video] Can a waste-to-energy plant address piling concerns from a landfill site?

Kundan Pandey, Video by Shaz Syed 1 Jul 2022

Scientists unpack the influence of black carbon aerosols on rainfall in northeast India

Sahana Ghosh 23 Jun 2022

Aerosol pollution is a health hazard that also destabilises Earth’s climate

Conrad Fox 10 Mar 2022
Solar energy-powered water pump in a field. Photo by Prashanth Vishwanathan for IWMI/ Flickr.

Addressing challenges in food systems with climate-smart agriculture

Priyanka Shankar and Sahana Ghosh 22 Dec 2021
SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. Photo by Ajit Menon.

[Commentary] Industrialisation gone wrong in coastal Cuddalore

Ajit Menon, Arunkumar A.S. 1 Dec 2021

[Commentary] Nature-based solutions hold the key to transform our cities into resilient spaces

Suchismita Mukhopadhyay and Saurav Chowdhury 30 Jul 2021
India’s monsoons are important to its agriculture and economy. Farms during India's monsoon season in Madhya Pradesh. Photo by Rajarshi Mitra/Wikimedia Commons.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide and warming shaped past Indian monsoons: study

Sahana Ghosh 14 Jul 2021

Using fossil fuel as a cash cow: A big obstacle in India’s energy transition

Kundan Pandey 31 Mar 2021
A vendor carrying LPG cylinders

Government survey paints a different picture of Ujjwala scheme claims

Kundan Pandey 22 Jan 2021