Delhi Pollution: The national capital of Delhi has been enveloped by a thick layer of dust for the last five days.

While the major air pollution threat in Delhi is from the tiny PM2.5 particles that get embedded in the lungs, during the summer, PM10 is the primary pollutant.

NEW DELHI: Winter pollution in the national capital region may be deadly, but summer doesn’t give much respite either.

The device is currently made at a cost of Rs 5,500 but researchers feel that when the device is produced at a commercial scale, the cost could come down to Rs1,500.

NEW DELHI: Scientists have for the first time shown that greenhouse gases (GHGs) released by human activities are solely responsible for the warming climate in India, where average temperatures hav

MoEF’s appraisal committee lays down conditions

Temperatures in the past week have been above normal for most parts of India, especially the northern and central plains.

The estimates should not be perceived as instant deaths, said the report, clarifying that they represent premature (earlier than the expected lifetime of the Indian population) deaths due to chroni

Large new study crunches decades of IMD data to unpack patterns of warming — and some cooling — across India, points to impact on agriculture in a country with 17.5 per cent of world’s population b

A new study on climate change in India has confirmed a rapid rise in surface temperatures in the past 70 years.

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