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Pollution levels across India are some of the highest anywhere in the world. Kolkata is definitely one of them. A once beautiful city has hit high AQI and has been reduced to a huge garbage yard with tons of plastic waste strewn on every square inch of the city. Along with the number of aging […]
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By Kanishk Saraogi
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently approved the development of an air quality monitoring network of 90 stations in the city, which will make it the largest such network in India. The project is expected to be completed over the next five years and will be funded by the BMC and private organisations. At ₹9.5 […]
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By LMB Staff
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Nashik, famous for its serene weather and clean air may no longer remain in the same because of its growing air pollution. In the last couple of years, Nashik’s air quality is worsening consistently, but the perception of ‘city of clean air’ and serene weather is not changing. So, when this winter season, even when […]
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By Roshan Kedar
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Delhi has earned the infamous tag of being the most polluted capital city in the world and over the years air pollution has become an issue of public health emergency in the NCR region. The ‘Lancet Commission on pollution and health’ reported 9 million premature deaths stemming from air pollution in 2015 all over the […]
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By Ramapati Kumar
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In India, air pollution causes at least one million premature deaths among adults in a year. In Delhi, the potential of life lost due to air pollution is estimated to be 3 to 6 years per person. A large number of the world’s most polluted cities are in India. Our ranking in the Air Quality […]
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By Barun Aggarwal
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The financial capital of India is now competing with the national capital which records the worst AQI throughout the year. Mumbai’s air quality is deteriorating rapidly as unhealthy to very poor AQI is being recorded at several locations within the city. In 2019, Mumbai recorded 6% of total days with very poor AQI as compared […]
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By Tanmay Shinde
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Voicing concerns at an exhibition – Breathless: An Artistic Call To India’s Air Pollution Crisis at the Bombay Art Society, citizens discussed their worries over the deterioration of air quality
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By Siya Bhatia
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A protest took place in the middle of Cannaught Place on 24th January 2020 where various students from across Delhi-NCR missed their schools and colleges to raise their voices against air pollution and demands for clean air. Students and environment activists collected over 200 signatures to build a consensus and demand a commitment from political […]
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By LMB Staff
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14th January 2020: Alarm rang at 0700hrs. The window showed a cold foggy morning. I was soon lulled back to slumber in the comfortable bubble of my bedroom. When the fog was significantly visible at 08:30, as I stepped out of my house, is when my senses went haywire. It was the middle of January […]
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By Tejas Mahajan
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Let Me Breathe and Vettiver Collective collaborated for a campaign #LetChennaiBreathe to highlight the deteriorating air quality in Chennai and to pressurize the authorities to include Chennai in the NCAP
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By LMB Staff