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The Taj Mahal on Thursday disappeared in the grey hazy cover of thickening smog
Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, even likened the city to a “gas chamber,” reports the New York Times. NASA on Thursday shared images of what the cover looks like from space.
The air pollution in Delhi, the capital territory of India, was found to be the worst of any major city in the world according to an August 2022 survey of 7,000 world cities by the US-based Health Effects Institute. [2] The air pollution in Delhi significantly impacts the surrounding districts.
The air pollution generated in November 2024 in India and Pakistan was regarded by climate researchers as an unprecedented intensification of the region's annual pollution cycle. [2] NASA satellite imaging showed a continuous cloud of smog that extended across the majority of eastern and northern Pakistan, as well as northwestern India. [3] [4]
Environmental problems in Delhi, India, are a threat to the well-being of the city's and area's inhabitants as well as the flora and fauna. Delhi, the ninth-most populated metropolis in the world (second largest if the entire NCR includes especially Faridabad and Gurugram– Haryana, is one of the most heavily polluted cities in India, [1] having for instance one of the country's highest ...
A blanket of air pollution seen over Delhi in northern India on 14 November (Screenshot: Nasa Worldview map) The Congress party, once a dominant force in Delhi politics but now polling a distant ...
The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries. Air quality in the database is represented by the annual mean concentration of particulate matter ( PM10 and PM2.5, i.e. particles smaller than 10 or 2.5 micrometers, respectively).
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