The Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon significantly affects us by exacerbating heat discomfort, increased energy consumption, and urban air pollution. The severity of UHI associated with heat waves and heat stress-related mortality is now one of the major concerns, particularly in densely populated ...
11) The Government of Andhra Pradesh inks MoU with which nonprofit environmental organization to save seas from pollution? (a) Plastic Pollution Coalition (b) Ocean Conservancy (c) The Nature Conservancy (d) Oceana (e) Parley for the Oceans 12) Which state government has recently extended the ...
More energized than UV-A radiation, UV-B radiation has wavelengths between 280 and 320 nm. It accounts for approximately 5% of UV radiation that approaches the Earth’s surface because the ozone layer absorbs a large portion of it [6,12]. In addition to causing sunburn, UV-B radiation dir...
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air pollution. The NCAP will be a mid-term, five-year action plan with 2019 as the first year. However, the international experiences and national studies indicate that significant outcome in terms of air pollution initiatives are visible only in the long-term, and hence the programme may be...
The Euro-VI was rolled out to combat alarming levels of air pollution in Delhi. Other cities like Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad along with 13 major cities, including Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune, will also switch over to cleaner BS-VI grade fuel from January 1,...
ii.During the second side event an MoU was also signed between the Central Nodal Agency, Sustainable Tourism, Responsible Tourism Society of India(RTSOI) and Punjab Tourism Board to collectively unite and address plastic pollution in the tourism sector. ...
Safety of women and children, lifestyle factors like climate and pollution, financial concerns including taxes, better healthcare for families and educational opportunities for children, and to escape oppressive governments. The post-Independence diasporic community has been going (out of India) for job...
These emissions can further potentially interact with one another, resulting in a higher load on the circumambient atmosphere and on its naturally occurring constituents like carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and ozone that can be the indirect impact of warming [12]. Moreover, air pollution caused ...
Contemporary Drift in Emerging Micro(nano)plastics Removal and Upcycling Technologies from Municipal Wastewater Sludge: Strategic Innovations and ProspectsPublished: 22 May 2023 Volume 9, pages 174–197, (2023) Cite this article Download PDF Current Pollution Reports Aims and scope Submit manuscript ...