air pollution

As citizens we must know that the following measures can and must be implemented by our governments and imbibed by society

Apart from pollution control board authorities and citizen groups, Indian celebrities are also stepping on to the scene to take a stand against the rising pollution levels and using their platform to raise awareness about #DelhiSmog.

This self-watering and solar-powered innovation may just be what Indian cities need in their uphill battle against air pollution.

As the Supreme Court goes back and forth with its order of whether it should be mandatory for people to stand for the National Anthem played in movie theatres, we wonder if such mandated displays of patriotism compromise our freedom of expression.

Did you know that indoor air pollution can be 2-5 times worse than outdoor air - as per the Environment Protection Agency (EPA)! And that’s exactly why discussing it now is more important than ever.

Conceived by Dhruv Suri, an aeronautical engineering student, GreenBoard incorporates an air purifier, also known as carbon dioxide scrubber, into an ordinary billboard and purifies the air as it flows through it.

The move came into action as part of a host of measures enforced after the capital’s air quality index raised alarms, hitting the ‘very poor’ category.

The Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) is readying tender documents to procure 150 electric buses.

An IIT-R researcher has come up with a novel bioreactor that will benefit the animal feed industry and can help control air and soil pollution.

This can be integrated with a cell phone, or a small device at every traffic signal which can transmit the data to your cell phone through Bluetooth