Vegetation and peatland fires cause poor air quality and thousands of premature deaths across densely populated regions in Equatorial Asia. Strong El-Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole conditions are associated with an increase in the frequency and intensity of wildfires in Indonesia and Borneo, enhancing population exposure to hazardous concentrations of smoke and air pollutants.

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In an alarming assessment by the Global Burden of Disease project, India has overtaken China in the number of deaths due to ambient (outdoor) air pollution, in 2015. The study showed continuous increase in the number of premature deaths in India since 1990.

Ahmedabad: The state government will give its final touches to a comprehensive air action plan for Ahmedabad city in the coming few days. This will be the second such action plan since 2002.

With arrival of winter and increase in smog, Delhi hospitals have witnessed a 30 per cent rise in respiratory and ocular complaints in the last two-three weeks.

This week started off with better air quality compared to the last, when toxic levels of particulate matter were recorded across New Delhi.

GURGAON: After Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) sent out a strong message on their crusade against air pollution, the Sikh community in the city celebrated a cracker-free Gurupurab

Exceedingly high levels of fine particulate matter (PM) occur frequently in China, but the mechanism of severe haze formation remains unclear. From atmospheric measurements in two Chinese megacities and laboratory experiments, we show that the oxidation of SO2 by NO2 occurs efficiently in aqueous media under two polluted conditions: first, during the formation of the 1952 London Fog via in-cloud oxidation; and second, on fine PM with NH3 neutralization during severe haze in China.

Air pollution in the National Capital Region may finally be treated as a common problem, experts said on Thursday as the Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered the Central and

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik Vs. Union of India & Others dated 10/11/2016 regarding deteriorating air quality in Delhi.

LUCKNOW: Lucknow University will have its own air quality monitoring station. LU received the air quality monitoring device from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) on Tuesday.

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