Pollution

Delhi-NCR is choking again: PM2.5 levels top 400, residents scramble for relief—six steps you can take today.

Praan, Inc., a cleantech startup based in Mumbai founded by Angad Daryani, has built one of the world's most advanced air purification technologies.

Each winter, stubble burning worsens air quality in Delhi and North India by releasing harmful pollutants. Recognising the need for urgent solutions, these entrepreneurs have devised innovative methods to fight pollution.

Delhi resident Praveen Nayak left his engineering degree to make his city greener and cleaner. Watch this video to see how his initiative ‘Garbage Clinic’ is making the city more livable.

Otrivin through its initiative ‘Pollution Capture Pencils’, is harnessing air pollution from schools to make pencils, and provide cleaner air to students

Warrior Moms, a national citizen action group, is battling for their children’s right to breathe clean air in polluted cities like Delhi, by engaging in urban mobility, waste management, biomass burning, and biodiversity protection.

PI Green Innovations raised $4.5 million to tackle industrial emissions that harm the environment and lead to dangerous respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in humans

Nirit Datta is a former IT professional who founded Buttrush in 2021 to collect and recycle cigarette butts.

Delhi-based entrepreneur Vidyut Mohan is the recent recipient of Prince William's Earthshot prize, also known as the 'Eco Oscars', for his low-cost, portable device that processes stubble waste into fertilisers, activated carbon, and charcoal.

The Bay of Life Surf School & Ocean Literacy in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, started by Showkath Jamal, is ensuring that you get a lesson in surfing and ocean safety along with a dose of wildlife preservation and pollution control.