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air quality
Delhi, the capital city of India and home to 25 million residents, is in the midst of an “extreme pollution event”. In other words the city has been overrun with smog – a ton of it. Recent photographs show the extent of the problem, which is being blamed on everything…
Earlier this year Delhi’s air pollution was so bad that the government banned half its cars from streets for 15 days. The policymaker who came up with the idea says the ban should be 365 days a year — but not because it improved air quality all that much.
It may sound like a no-brainer to say that trees improve air quality. After all, we know that trees absorb the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO₂), and that their leaves can trap the toxic pollutants nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), ozone, and harmful microscopic particles produced by diesel vehicles, cooking and wood…
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