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Pollution is defined as ‘an addition or excessive addition of certain materials to the physical environment (water, air and lands), making it less fit or unfit for life’. POLLUTANTS Pollutants are the materials or factors, which cause adverse effect on the natural quality of any component of the environment. For example, smoke from industries and…

INDORE: After black and white fungus, a case of green fungus is reported in the district with a 34-year-old patient admitted to a private medical college on Tuesday. What has happened? As the country deals with the second wave of Coronavirus, We have been witnessing rising cases of black fungus, white fungus and yellow fungus. Medical experts have been…

New Delhi to shut schools, construction sites as pollution worsens What happened? Delhi woke up to high levels of air pollution last week as air quality index (AQI) slipped into ‘very poor’ category while some parts of the city saw AQI turn ‘severe’. Real-time air quality monitoring data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) showed that particulate matter…

The World Health Organisation (WHO)  Released a revised Global Air Quality Guidelines on Wednesday, announcing more stringent limits for six pollutant categories —particulate matter (PM), ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) sulphur dioxide (SO2) and carbon monoxide (CO). World Health Organisation air quality guidelines The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday released stringent air quality guidelines,…

The UK has recorded the world’s 1st foul air death or death legally certified to have been caused by air pollution…. According to WHO, air pollution contributes to 4.2 million deaths per year across the world. In addition to this, about 3.8 million deaths are due to household air pollutants. DEATH An important inquest is underway in…

Acid rain, or acid deposition, is a broad term that includes any form of precipitation with acidic components, such as sulphuric or nitric acid that fall to the ground from the atmosphere in wet or dry forms. This can include rain, snow, fog, hail or even dust that is acidic. Acid Rain – Burning Issues Acid…