• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

Air Pollution Found to Be Harming Health of Wild Pollinators

A recent study shows that air pollution poses a threat not only to humans but to many other organisms of the world including our key pollinator, the honeybee. According to the World Health Organization, 9 of the 10 most polluted cities worldwide are now in India, making life difficult for the locals as well as the nearby wildlife. Pollution in the wild has been known to cause behavioral, neurological and reproductive deficits in animals, whether it be from the harmful particles in the air they breathe or contamination of food and water resources.

• Sustainable Food Systems

‘When The World Was Banning TFA, We Were Promoting Vanaspati’

Pushback from the industry and a weak regulator has allowed deadly industrial trans fats to continue in the Indian food chain, says Amit Khurana of the CSE

• Director General Office

Headline management will not work

The pandemic has ebbed, but only in our mind’s attention space, and this is extremely unfortunate. The virus is ravaging now and has spread across the country. It has gone beyond big cities to remote towns and villages, where there is not even a semblance of health care, forget ventilators. Now is when the impact is worse — people who have the infection are doubly, no, triply hit and hurt, devastated. They have no option but to go back to work. They cannot afford a lockdown.

• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

New Delhi to boost use of electrical vehicles

New Delhi, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) The government of the capital of India sanctioned the Electrical Vehicles Policy, which aims to make a quarter of all new vehicle registrations in this city batteryoperated by 2024, the media reported today.

• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

App-based cab trips may get costlier in Delhi, road tax likely to be hiked

Transport minister Kailash Gahlot said revising the road tax and levying a congestion fee are means devised by experts and officials to provide the funds required to push the demand for electric vehicles in the city by offering a variety of incentives.

• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

Experts welcome Delhi govt notifying electric vehicle police, stress on implementation

NEW DELHI: Environment experts Friday welcomed the Delhi government notifying its Electric Vehicle Policy, but said implementation will be the key and suggested installing sufficient number of charging stations for it to become successful.

• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

Experts welcome Delhi govt notifying electric vehicle police, stress on implementation

Environment experts Friday welcomed the Delhi government notifying its Electric Vehicle Policy, but said implementation will be the key and suggested installing sufficient number of charging stations for it to become successful. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday launched ''Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy'' under which his government will waive registration fee and road tax, and provide incentive of up to Rs 1.5 lakh for new electric cars in the national capital. Environment expert Vimlendu Jha said, “As a policy, electric vehicles sound very clean. But until and unless the supply of electricity is non-coal and non-thermal, it does not make much of a difference.”

• Impact Assessment

Explained: The Curious Case of India’s Draft EIA Notification 2020

For the past few months, there has been a public outcry over the draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2020. Activists, environmental groups, biologists and students have claimed that the notification is “anti-people”, “anti-environment” and “pro-industries”.

• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

With limited public transit, traffic rises in unlocked Delhi

Delhi traffic police control room records show that from May 20 — when public transport and public movement resumed in the city after restrictions were eased — to August 5, at least 15 arterial stretches have seen an increase in vehicular traffic.

• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

Losing track: Delhi needs to stretch beyond token steps to boost cycling

NEW DELHI: The Public Works Department built cycle tracks across the city, only to see them taken over by shops and motorised two-wheelers. The Covid lockdown, however, heralded the return of bicycles on the road, to some extent because of the absence public transport. After the capital opened up, Delhiites are still pedalling on short-distance trips, leaving traffic experts to believe that this is the ideal time to induct bicycles and electric vehicles into the public transport system.

• Clean Air & Sustainable Mobility

Green panel to keep watch on how neighbours plan to curb farm fires

With just a couple of months left before farmers in Punjab and Haryana start burning crop stubble, both the states have submitted an action plan and a status report to Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) detailing how they plan to provide incentives and raise awareness to curb th problem.

• Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy

India faces growing biomedical waste crisis as coronavirus cases soar

NEW DELHI - Ms Arasmani Devi, 36, plucks out a needle from a used injection with her bare hands, before throwing its plastic barrel and plunger into a sack of potentially recyclable items. Her 40-year-old husband Akhilesh Paswan works next to her at a recycling yard in Noida, a suburb near Delhi.

• Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy

Single use, dangerous misuse: on the war against plastic during COVID-19

Reversing policies aimed to eliminate single-use plastics will do us more harm than good On one of his usual walks collecting plastic trash in Chennai, B. Gowtham recently noticed a goat wearing a discarded face mask. “It’s sad,” he says, adding

• Sustainable Food Systems

Pesticides endorsed? Business Standard ad on foreign funded NGOs malicious: Activists

In a sharp rebuttal to a full-page advertorial published in the daily “Business Standard” (July 29), more than 160 academics, activists and NGOs, many of them working in the environmental field, have said that the content the advertorial by the all-India pesticides and chemical fertilizer industry body, Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI), is “malafide as it seeks to promote harmful agricultural practices detrimental to public interest.”

• Environment Education

Bringing environmental education home

• Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy

Scavengers in India risk health to sift coronavirus debris

Mansoor Khan and his wife Latifa Bibi have been collecting scraps of plastic and other items at an enormous landfill site on the outskirts of New Delhi for nearly 20 years.