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When the air quality in Delhi on 18 November 2021 slipped into the "severe" category with an AQI of 362, the Supreme Court of India reprimanded the central and state governments and asked them to take strict measures to reduce pollution in Delhi and the NCR region.
According to Swiss Air Quality Index monitoring group IQAir, the concentration of PM2.5 in the air increased to 737 on Monday, about 150 times the WHO limit, making Delhi, home to more than 30 ...
Air pollution in India's capital Delhi has soared to extremely severe levels, choking residents and engulfing the city in thick smog. Monitors recorded pollution levels of 1,500 on the Air Quality ...
Delhi’s air quality has plunged this week, with dense smog on Wednesday making the Indian capital the most polluted city in the country for the third day in a row.. A thick blanket of pollution ...
The prominent air activist said that Thursday marked Delhi’s 15th straight day of “very poor” air quality and “the last two days have been “severe” because the wind direction is no ...
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 ...
Air Quality Index (AQI) is a number used to communicate the level of pollution in the air and it essentially tells you the level of pollution in the air in a given city on a given day. The AQI of Delhi was placed under the "severe-plus category" when it touched 574, by the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research. [49]
NEW DELHI – India's capital was left gasping this week as air pollution smog reduced visibility to near zero and raised air quality levels more than 130 times safe limits. SAFAR, India’s ...