A gasoline station attendant pumps diesel into a car at a filling station on March 23, 2010 in Berlin, Germany.

A novel way to know if the area you’re in is safe from hazardous air conditions

Cornell University biological engineers have deciphered the cellular strategy to make the biofuel ethanol, using an anaerobic microbe feeding on carbon monoxide - a common industrial waste gas.

Air pollution would cause the deaths of at least 2500 people across Sydney and Melbourne in the year 2030 even if the federal government swiftly clamped down on poisonous car fuels, a government-co

Climate change and global warming are gradually wreaking havoc over the planet and there are many among the world's population who still feign ignorance at this morbid facet of truth.

"This marks the 14th consecutive month the monthly global temperature record has been broken, the longest such streak in the 137-year record," said US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio

The CPCB had monitored several pollutants between April 1 to 14 before the odd-even period and April 15 to 30 during it to arrive at the conclusion.

Ahmedabad: It would require Ahmedabad to grow 1.81 crore trees to trap the tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and poisonous carbon monoxide (CO) gases we vent into Ahmedabad's air, according to the sta

Environment pollution has become a major cause of worry in the cities and towns of Assam and a recent study revealed that a large number of people are suffering from various diseases including skin

Overflowing garbage landfills in the national capital, which have been saturated way beyond capacity, are already simmering inside.