The air quality in downtown Cairo is more than 10 to 100 times of acceptable world standards.

China plans to release hourly air pollution monitoring data in 74 of its biggest cities starting on New Year's Day, state media said on Sunday, in a sign of increasing responsiveness to quality-of-

The government will issue real-time air quality monitoring data in 74 cities starting Ja 1, 2013, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said Friday.

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The dip in the mercury, over the last few days, has resulted in an increase in the air pollution level in the city.

Scientists including two Indian-origin researchers have developed a fleet of portable pollution sensors that allow users to monitor air quality on their smartphones.

The Himalayan countries of Nepal and Bhutan will, in 2013, have two permanent air monitoring observatories set up by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) as part of

The holy town of Katra, which on an average witnesses the arrival of 35,000 pilgrims from across the country and abroad on a daily basis and over one crore of them every year, may soon have an air

The government-owned coal-based thermal power plants are the biggest defaulters in controlling environment pollution in Sonbhadra.

Levels of sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide are under control across city, but very high in civil lines area.