How air pollution is affecting people in Delhi's slums

This week, authorities in India's capital New Delhi released a new plan of action to curb air pollution over the course of summer, as a severe heatwave bakes the city. The plan focuses on reducing pollution from road dust and the burning of waste, which are major contributors of fine particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) that pose the greatest threat to human airways. Delhi's pollution problem is especially bad in late fall and early winter, when prevailing weather patterns drive pollutants from heavy industry and coal-fired power plants to smother the megacity in toxic gray smog. 

Additionally, the city residents are inhaling smoke from burning crop waste in the neighboring states of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. The city is among the worst-polluted in the world. To understand the impact of pollution on people most exposed to harmful air, DW recently visited the Ghazipur landfill, considered India's tallest rubbish mountain, and its surrounding areas.

Tons of garbage dumped at the site daily…

https://www.dw.com/en/india-how-air-pollution-is-affecting-people-in-delhis-slums/a-61478591


George Monbiot: Dead Line - Future corporate profits are officially more important than life on Earth


Thawing permafrost is roiling the Arctic landscape, driven by a hidden world of changes / Researchers identified over 5,500 new viruses in the ocean


JOSH DZIEZA - Save the Honeybee, Sterilize the Earth


Mass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging the land to death. By George Monbiot


Climate crisis: economists ‘grossly undervalue young lives’


Hundreds of global civil society representatives walk out of Cop26 in protest


CODE RED for Humanity - The IPCC report is clear: nothing short of transforming society will avert catastrophe


Murtaza Hussain: Industrialized Militaries & Climate Emergency // Rajan Menon: Hypersonic Weapons and National (In)security Why Arms Races Never End


ALFRED MCCOY: China Is Digging Its Own Grave (and Ours as Well)


Book review: The Mushroom at the End of the World review – life in capitalist ruins


Popular posts from this blog

Third degree torture used on Maruti workers: Rights body

Haruki Murakami: On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning

The Almond Trees by Albert Camus (1940)

Satyagraha - An answer to modern nihilism

Rudyard Kipling: critical essay by George Orwell (1942)

Three Versions of Judas: Jorge Luis Borges

Goodbye Sadiq al-Azm, lone Syrian Marxist against the Assad regime