Common levels of traffic pollution can impair human brain function in only a matter of hours, according to a peer-reviewed finding, published in the journal Environmental Health. The study showed that just two hours of exposure to diesel exhaust can cause a decrease...

In order to minimize and control the fugitive dust in mining areas, Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited (CMPDIL), Ranchi (a consultancy subsidiary of Coal India Limited) has invented a “System and Method for Controlling Generation and Movement of...

A Delhi-based NGO has started a project from the iron-ore-rich Saranda area in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum, to make tribal villagers aware of environment and mining laws. Members of Environics Trust as part of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) project on...

Despite the Union government pumping in funds worth almost Rs 6,900 crore over four years to tackle air pollution in specific cities as part of the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP), there has been only a “marginal improvement” in air quality in the country’s most...

SUNDARGARH, India - Every Sunday, Mahesh Beck plays field hockey on a dry patch of land near his village in eastern India. Yet he had not heard of the men's hockey World Cup happening in his state, or that a new multi-million-rupee pitch had been built 30 km (19...