Envirocatalysts Blog
Delhi Chokes On A “Severe” AQI of 494; More Restrictions in Place to Curb Pollution
This “hazardous” situation has emerged due to our inability to curb pollution from perennial sources, an air quality scientist told The Wire.
Toxic smog fuels debate over shifting India's capital away from New Delhi
The toxic smog cloaking New Delhi in recent weeks has been smothering its 20 million or so residents with dangerous pollution but breathing life into debate about whether the city can remain India's capital.
‘The air is killing us’: why Delhi’s pollution problem runs deeper than smog season
As winter sets in across north India – usually around the time of the country’s biggest festival, Diwali – the air in Delhi becomes thick and brown with visible pollutants. To breathe in is to taste toxic fumes. The visibility is often so bad that famous monuments are reduced to smoky blurs on the horizon. It is, as one writer once put it, as if a burial shroud has cloaked the city.
Why India’s smog strategy has failed to solve its out-of-control air pollution
Political deadlock, fragmented efforts and citizen apathy have led to the country’s pollution crisis
India’s Coal Plants to Miss Pollution Goal as Smog Chokes Delhi
Most of India’s coal-burning plants are set to again fall short of a major pollution target, adding to the deadly smog that’s enveloped large parts of the country.
Delhi-NCR schools shut; AAP, BJP spar over worsening AQI
“An increase in PM 2.5 levels has occurred because all existing perennial sources of pollution haven’t been controlled in a systematic and comprehensive way. The base emissions load is already high so in episodic events, we can see this kind of spike,” explained Sunil Dahiya, founder and lead air quality analyst at Envirocatalysts.
CAQM took no learnings from its earlier reactionary ways: Experts
Environmental advocates and public health experts criticised the apparent delay in implementing Stage-3 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), arguing that the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) appears to have lost sight of its primary mission—to act pre-emptively before air emergencies arise, not after.
Why Gurgaon’s air quality is better compared to Delhi?
From October to the first week of November this year, PM2.5 and PM10 levels in Gurgaon were 45% and 77% lower than those in Delhi, respectively.
Delhi sees warmest October in at least 13 years; here’s how it could help on Diwali
The month is on its way to becoming the warmest October experienced by Delhi at least since 2011, from when India Meteorological Department (IMD) data on average maximum and minimum temperatures are available.
Not 13, Delhi now has 22 pollution pain points
Nehru Nagar, Sonia Vihar, Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, ITO and Patparganj are among the emerging pollution hotspots in the city, exhibiting high PM2.5 concentrations.