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Delhi`s air more polluted than Beijing`s, reveals new study

Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 12:36

An examination of daily pollution figures collected from New Delhi suggests that the air in the national capital is laden with dangerous small particles of pollution.

Haze continues to shroud China

Last Updated: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 20:19

Heavy haze still shrouded China Saturday, with highways closed and flights delayed or cancelled following an alert for haze.

Hong Kong announces new air pollution index

Last Updated: Friday, December 6, 2013, 18:31

Hong Kong on Friday announced a new air quality health index, the first in Asia to use the system, in its ongoing battle to combat air pollution.

Plastics dangerously harming marine ecosystems

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 15:57

Up till now it was unknown to researchers whether ingested plastic transfers chemical additives or pollutants to wildlife, but a new study has shown that toxic concentrations of pollutants and additives enter the tissue of animals that have eaten microplastic.

Rains, high speed wind can clear smog: CPCB

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 19:18

With the thick blanket of smog engulfing the national capital, the Central Pollution Control Board Wednesday said rains and high speed wind can clear the pollutants in the air and increase visibility.

Now, water purifying technique that uses fruit peels

Last Updated: Sunday, July 21, 2013, 18:59

An Indian-origin scientist has developed the world`s first water purification technique that uses the peels of apples and tomatoes to remove different types of pollutants.

Harmful pollutants go up sharply in Beijing

Last Updated: Thursday, April 4, 2013, 11:00

The levels of two pollutants harmful to human health rose sharply in Beijing in the first three months of 2013 relative to the same period of last year, the South China Morning Post reported, citing a government official.

Plant that suck up pollutants from soil

Last Updated: Thursday, May 31, 2012, 19:45

Chinese experts have successfully used a plant to clean arsenic pollution from the soil.

Scented laundry products emit hazardous chemicals

Last Updated: Thursday, August 25, 2011, 19:43

Analysis of the captured gases emitted from laundry vents found more than 25 volatile organic compounds, including seven hazardous air pollutants.

Pollutants found at US base in S Korea: Officials

Last Updated: Friday, August 5, 2011, 18:47

Traces of toxic chemicals have been found at a US military camp but there is no evidence yet to support claims that Agent Orange was buried there in 1978, South Korean and American investigators said.

Melting Arctic ice releasing banned toxins

Last Updated: Monday, July 25, 2011, 09:22

The `Dirty Dozen` chemicals were widely used as insecticides & pesticides before being outlawed in 2001.

Sunlight `scrambles pollutants`

Last Updated: Friday, June 3, 2011, 19:58

Sunlight can rearrange the atoms of molecules to form new chemical substances.