PUNE: The amount of black carbon or soot, a potential cancer-causing substance, has been gradually increasing over Pune city since 2005, shows a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).
Soot is a human carcinogenic which is considered second only to carbon dioxide in causing climate change or global warming.
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