PUNE: It's not just the lungs. Pollutants in the city's air have significant bearing on people's mental health as well.

The samples were collected on National Highway 2 to see how much traffic coming in from outside Delhi contributes to the formation of particulate matter.

The National Air Quality Index (AQI) for Visakhapatnam has been ranked 'satisfactory' considering the values of eight pollutants measured by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

A study in the journal Nature has traced the emissions associated with international trade – linking demand in one region to production in another, to the pollution arising from the production, and

The monthly average PM 2.5 concentration was recorded to be the highest in November at all monitoring stations, except ITO and Dilshad Garden.

Mumbai, touted to have considerably cleaner air than most north Indian cities, has been recording far higher air pollution levels than Delhi for over two weeks now.

Beijing and its neighbors have pledged to intensify efforts in cutting air pollution to meet the target of lowering the average annual PM2.5 density in the region to about 60 micrograms per cubic m

India's air quality deteriorated faster than ever over the five years to 2015, compared to the period before 2010, according to the State of Global Air 2017 report, recently released by the US-base