-The Indian Express Delhi, Punjab and Haryana asked to send enforcement teams: Top official With Air pollution levels increasing to ‘severe levels’ in the National Capital region and Air quality Index measuring an alarming 494 Sunday, with at least 37 flights diverted between 9 am and 1 pm because of poor visibility, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) Sunday called a review meeting on air pollution in Delhi and its surrounding areas. A...
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Air pollution in Delhi-NCR: Act, for your children's sake -Sunita Narain
-Down to Earth We are doing too little too late We can’t breathe in Delhi. It is a public health emergency as pollutants in the air have spiked to extremely toxic levels. Officially, the Air quality is in the severe+ zone, which means that it is bad for even the healthy, forget about what it will do to our children, aged and the already vulnerable. But what I want to discuss is...
More »Delhi's air pollution is down by 25%, need is to reduce another 65%
-Down to Earth Enforcement of graded response action plan on pollution hotspots in the national capital can help achieve clean air Delhi has, in the last 10 years, made visible strides in ameliorating its Air quality. Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Sunita Narain and Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director and head of the air pollution and clean transportation programme at CSE discuss how this was achieved and how to bring...
More »Images from Nasa reveal crop burning the reason behind increase in Delhi pollution -Kumar Kunal
-IndiaToday.in An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered 'good', 51 and 100 'satisfactory', 101 and 200 'moderate', 201 and 300 'poor', 301 and 400 'very poor', and 401 and 500 'severe'. * Nasa showed fire incidents occurring in the North-western region of India and adjoining regions in Pakistan * The fire incidents are likely due to crop burning in the area * The overall Air quality Index (AQI) in Delhi touched the 301...
More »Advanced air pollution warning system to predict stubble burning areas near Delhi -Shagun Kapil
-Down to Earth The system, which tracks crop burning using satellite data, can also forecast air pollution levels for next 72 hours The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has launched an advanced Air quality Early Warning System, which can predict places neighbouring Delhi that are likely to burn crop residue on a given day. The system, developed by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, under MoES, uses data of stubble burning incidents...
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