Can India’s air quality be improved? At the beginning of 2019 the Indian government inaugurated the National Clean Air Program (NCAP) to address the situation. It is their aim to reduce levels of air pollution by 20-30 per cent by 2024 in over 122 of the worst affected cities. Actions...
Can India’s air quality be improved? At the beginning of 2019 the Indian government inaugurated the National Clean Air Program (NCAP) to address the situation. It is their aim to reduce levels of air pollution by 20-30 per cent by 2024 in over 122 of the worst affected cities. Actions...
One of India’s most sacred rivers, the Yamuna in New Delhi, is covered with white toxic foam, with vast sections frothing as a result of pollutants discharged from industries around the city.
PollutionThe environmental problems in India are growing rapidly. The increasing economic development and a rapidly growing population that has taken the country from 300 million people in 1947 to more than one billion people today is putting a strain on the environment, infrastructure and the ...
When considering the ethics around the generation and effects of air pollution, especially in relation to justice and health care, actions taken by HCPs (e.g. in a country such as India) potentially extend beyond treating individual patients one-at-a-time for toxic effects of emissions and ...
India's capital Delhi observed a 5.9 percent reduction in average annual PM2.5 levels between 2019 and 2023.
Since mid-October, pollution levels in Meerut have remained at levelsclassifiedas "poor" or "severe", making it difficult to breathe. Ms Garg now spends nearly all her time indoors, next to her air purifier, trying toshieldherself from theto...
"We often see knee-jerk reactions," environmental journalist Bahar Dutt, the author of "Rewilding India: Experiments in saving nature," told CBS News. She said it was typical for the government to show dire concern in the autumn and winter, when pollution spikes. ...
根据第一段中“India has the world’s worst air pollution. That’s partly because the South Asian nation is the world’s second largest brick producer. Brick kilns(砖窑)— which account for 20% of black carbon emissions globally—make a significant contribution to its terrible air.”(印度是...
The aim of this study is to present an overview of the scientific attempts pertaining to the evaluation of impacts of air pollution and other meteorological changes on the historical monuments in India in the context of the global scenario. It is observed that seasonal fluctuations in the out...