Ask young activists about the Biden administration’s efforts to address the climate, and they’re quick to point out the problem isn’t close to being solved. Despite historic climate moves put in motion by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which hit its first...

Delhi has emerged as the world's most polluted city in a new study which has also found that its residents are on track to lose 11.9 years of life if the current levels of pollution continue to be higher than the limit set by the World Health Organisation. The Air...

As we aim to become “Aarogya Bharat”, a hidden adversary threatens the future of our nation — lead poisoning. A 2021 study brought forth a disturbing revelation: It estimated that more than half of our children (close to 20 crore) have lead levels in their blood...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) issued a statement on Saturday, saying air pollution is responsible for nearly one in every five deaths among children under five in Cambodia. The Cambodian Ministry of Health and UNICEF jointly released the kingdom's first...

Two laborers were killed while six others suffered injuries after some portion of land which they were digging to build a building slid on them in southeast Delhi’s Okhla Industrial area on Thursday. According to a senior Delhi Police official, a PCR call was received...

The Japanese government intends to discharge all 1.34 million tonnes of wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, an operation that began on 24 August 2023. Presumably, it also plans to discharge the wastewater that will continue to accumulate over...

MEERUT: A raging fire swept through a mattress factory on Delhi Road, within the jurisdiction of Kotwali Police Station in Baghpat during the early hours of Monday.  Firefighters rushed to the scene, and it took them five hours to successfully extinguish the flames,...

BENGALURU: Three men working at an under-construction site sustained severe burns in an alleged gelatin explosion at Whitefield recently.  Manikanta, Srinivas and Shashikumar were working at the site near a hospital in Whitefield. According to the family of the...

KULLU: Terming the recent floods and resultant disaster in Himachal Pradesh as 'man-made,' various environmental scientists and activists have blamed muck-dumping, illegal mining and encroachments on river banks as the primary reasons behind the deluge that has left a...