Tag: air quality

Toxic Air Pollution in India

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Post date Nov 18, 2021
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In the world of diplomacy, India may be remembered for its last-minute push to downgrade coal language at this year’s climate talks. Scientific American, November 16, 2021 More children are in hospital with breathing problems as pollution levels remain dangerously high in New Delhi, doctors warned on Wednesday, and the government shut five power stations […]

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Afterburner: New Year’s Day and a Smoky Bushfire Hangover

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Post date Jan 1, 2020
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We woke up today to the world’s worst air quality in Australia’s capital, Canberra. I am still waiting for political leadership on the topic of Climate Change but expecting instead: more dismissive parochialism and institutionalised, ideological denialism and avoidance. Context: Canberra’s air quality is ‘the worst in the world’ as bushfire smoke shrouds capital

Tags air quality, bushfire, Canberra, catastrophe, climate change