This data will help assess the impact of these initiatives on air quality and guide future policies to combat urban pollution ...

While the problems may look common, what is different is the source of these problems in each city and how they affect the ...

Emphasising the importance of increasing green cover, the West Bengal budget for 2025-26 allocated Rs 1,091.11 crore for the ...

Most of the world's population is exposed to polluted air and or those living in cities with chronically bad air, the smog ...

Polluted air has high concentrations of particulate matter (PM). They are around 10 micrometres (PM10) or 2.5 micrometres ...

Ghusuri suffered the most of all Howrah pockets with the monitoring station there recording 13 “very poor” days and an equal number of “poor” days ...

Today’s air was classified as 'very unhealthy', referring to a serious health risk to residents, according to the AQI index ...

Urban India would have to address the pollution crisis with strong government action, stricter regulations, and public ...

New satellite data and firsthand accounts reveal that PM2.5 levels in rural India far exceed safe limits. From biomass cooking with cow dung cakes to relentless stubble burning and unchecked ...

Sibes Kumar Das, the head of respiratory medicine at Medical College, Kolkata, said the department witnessed aoriund 25 per ...

Kolkata's air quality significantly improved on the last day of January, with most areas reaching 'satisfactory' AQI levels due to a rise in temperatu ...

Report by air quality start-up Airvoice said Bengaluru's air quality was 63% higher than average on 1 January 2025, between 12 and 3 am, with PM2.5 levels reaching 56.05 μg/m³.