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The Great Smog of Delhi was a severe air-pollution event in New Delhi and adjoining areas in the National Capital Territory of India. [57] Air pollution in 2016 peaked on both PM 2.5 and PM 10 levels. [58] It was reported as one of the worst levels of air quality in Delhi since 1980. [59]
The toxic smog engulfing Delhi was visible from space as satellite images captured the Indian national capital’s “severe” air pollution crisis continuing for two consecutive days ...
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 crisis and pollution level in Delhi are here to stay for the next two to three weeks, officials warn Delhi’s air quality ‘severe’ as breathing air akin to smoking ‘25-30 cigarettes a ...
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]
Delhi Peripheral Expressway: Eastern Peripheral Expressway and Western Peripheral Expressway is expected to divert more than 80,000 trucks away from Delhi and reduce pollution of Delhi by 27%. [43] [44] It was inaugurated in May 2018. Solar crematoriums: approx. 5% of Delhis air pollution is due to cremations with wood in the open-air burning ...
A study published in June found that air pollution killed 135 million people over the last four decades around the world, with India and China accounting for the bulk of the fatalities. In 2023 ...
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 ]