Winter air too toxic to breathe: Study
Calcutta: Calcutta's air is unbreathable in the current season, figures thrown up by the measuring stations of the state pollution control board reveal. Metro has accessed the pollution data generated
Jayanta Basu
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We breathe more poison than Delhi
Delhi is the country's pollution capital but Calcuttans are breathing in more toxic air because of higher exposure, a study has shown. Conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE),
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Calcutta sits on ticking e-waste bomb
Calcutta tops the chart in generating e-waste after Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bangalore and Chennai. An ill-equipped disposal system has ensured that a major chunk of the e-waste is crudely dismantled or burnt
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Trust deficit looms on climate talks
Warsaw, Nov. 19: The sun may have brightened the skies over the Polish capital today after quite some time but a cloud of mistrust hung at the national stadium where nearly 200 nations are negotiating
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Spoilsport’ flak for New Delhi
- At climate meet, India takes middle path on compensation for calamity damage THE STATE OF THE EARTH: THE PHILIPPINES A human skull, one of dozens found in a destroyed public cemetery, is displayed
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সতর্কবাণীর কিন্তু কোনও অভাব ছিল না
বাড়িটা কি এখনও আছে? সেই চার তলা বাড়িটা, যেটা হৃষিকেশে রামঝুলা ছাড়িয়ে লছমনঝুলা যাবার পথে রাস্তার বাঁকে প্রায় গঙ্গার ওপরই তৈরি হচ্ছিল? বড় ঝড়ঝঞ্ঝা, মেঘ ভেঙে পড়া বা আকস্মিক বান দূরে থাক, যাকে দেখে
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Govt pause on green fuel conversion
The transport department has not allowed conversion of vehicles to LPG, a sure way of cleaning up the city air, for the past six months. “Over the past few months, we have repeatedly sought the transport
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New bird found in India - Discovery in Nicobar second since Independence
Calcutta, Aug. 1: Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered a new bird on the Great Nicobar Island, the second report of a bird species previously unknown to science in independent
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Court order to check green lie
A quick glance at the city’s pollution data of the last few months would leave any green activist happy. The real story is, however, starkly different — the figures are misleading since 17 of the 20 pollution
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Environment put at sea in Durban
The legacy of the "imperfect deal" — as it was called by all participants — at the Copenhagen climate conference two years back continued in the Durban summit last December. People's need had lost out
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State may lose green tribunal
The proposed eastern circuit bench of the national green tribunal may be shifted from the city as the state government has failed to provide as little as 5,000sq ft of space despite the Centre’s repeated