The report, titled Airpocalypse II, by global environmental organization Greenpeace's India chapter, has found that Delhi is the most polluted city in India, while with 15 of its cities among the 30 polluted cities of the country, Uttar Pradesh is India's most polluted state. These cities in...
The rotifers Asplanchnopus multiceps (Schrank,1793), Lacinularia elliptica (Shephard, 1897) and the cladoceran Kurzia longirostris (Daday, 1898) are new records to Maharashtrastate. The present study was an attempt to monitor a polluted habitat for zooplankton fauna. Detailed studies on...
Varanasi is considered to be the spiritual capital of India. Dust from construction contributes to the poor air quality in the city. 3. Gaya, India Suman / AFP/Getty Images A train shines a light through heavy smog at a railway station in Gaya, a holy city in the Indian state of Bihar...
Sukinda Valley, India 97% of india’s chromite ore deposits and one of the largest open cast chromite ore mine are found in this valley in the state of Orissa. There are no environmental management systems in the operating mines. Waste rock are spread over the surrounding areas. Untreated wa...
Smothered by increasingly toxic air, India is moving to the forefront of a global push to use more of cleaner natural gas in vehicles. The country's state-run gas companies are charting ambitious plans to extend the use of natural gas to trucks and scooters, and build infrastructure for ...
Located near the border near Afghanistan in the northwest, Peshawar is home to about 2 million people affected by poor air quality. Download the 2022 World Air Quality Report Learn about the state of air quality around the world. SCARICA ORA In 2022, the average annual PM2.5 concentration ...
State City PM2.5 legend 0-5 Meets WHO guideline 5.1-10 Exceeds by 1 to 2 times 10.1-15 Exceeds by 2 to 3 times 15.1-25 Exceeds by 3 to 5 times 25.1-35 Exceeds by 5 to 7 times 35.1-50 Exceeds by 7 to 10 times >50.1
However, due to continuous discharges (e.g. from wastewater treatment plants) and steady-state flow conditions in the River Kali, the dispersion effects are found to be insignificant. In the analysis, the model parameters used in BOD-DO models were optimized using the Newton-Raphson technique ...
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Last year, Delhi's 20 million residents, who breathed some of the cleanest air on record in summer months due to the lockdown curbs, battled toxic air in winter, following a sharp increase in farm fire incidents in the neighbouring state of Punjab. As the burning ...