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15-year-old Nigerian student Raheema Auwal-Panti is attracting international attention for an innovation that tackles two major challenges at once, plastic pollution and menstrual-product accessibility. The founder of PantiPads, a biodegradable sanitary-pad initiative launched in 2025, has developed menstrual products made from agricultural waste materials that would otherwise be discarded.

Cooking inside the kitchen may be silently increasing indoor air pollution levels more than many people realise. Experts warn that gas stoves, frying oil, and smoke from cooking can rapidly increase indoor AQI and release harmful pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, benzene, and fine particles.

In cities filled with concrete, glass and rising temperatures, Spanish botanist Ignacio Solano sees something different in the empty walls around him. Through massive vertical gardens covered in thousands of plants, Solano is helping transform ordinary buildings into living ecosystems that cool the air, reduce pollution and support biodiversity.

In three decades or so, Hindu festivals have seen "progressive" restrictions through the Supreme Court and state pollution boards. But Muslim festivals were treated as exceptions.

A study reveals India's solar power output dropped 9.6% in 2023 due to air pollution, significantly impacting energy generation.

A choking haze, temperatures nearing 46degC and dust blowing in from Rajasthan pushed Delhi to the edge this week, but a major weather shift could now bring relief

Delhi's air quality slipped into the poor category as a heatwave and dust-laden winds gripped the city. Even so, CPCB data shows May 2026 has remained cleaner overall than several recent years.

Unlike geography or crop residue burning, this is an aspect of pollution over which the Delhi government cannot claim helplessness

AQI.in's live rankings placed 21 Indian cities among the world's 25 most polluted on Sunday. The list points to how heatwave conditions and PM2.5 pollution are worsening air quality beyond winter months in India.

The link between artificial light at night, street lights, light pollution, biodiversity destruction, nocturnal fauna, bats, insects, and birds is becoming more evident in modern environmental science. It has been suggested that too much light during the night not only causes comfort for humans but also becomes a serious threat to the environment.