Media articles
- Burning of trees sinks Chennai’s air quality
- Govt asks pollution watchdogs to get their instruments calibrated to maintain accuracy
- Delhi’s plan to create a landfill along the banks of the Yamuna is a downright dangerous idea
- The long-term solution
- CAST to test northeast India’s air pollution situation
- Take a deep breath – here’s what 2016 revealed about the deadly dangers of air pollution
- Not just prevention, we want reversal of air pollution: Delhi HC
- Breathe less … or ban cars: cities have radically different responses to pollution
- Eight-fold rise in respiratory diseases in Varanasi: Report
- What have you done to reduce air pollution: NGT to Delhi, Centre
- NTPC to replace 11 GW of inefficient plants with Rs 50,000 crore investment
- Can jet engines clean up Delhi’s foul air?
- DPCC to explain how Okhla plant got okayed
- Health cost of air pollution in India assessed at 3 per cent of its GDP
- Gurgaon releases holy smoke to cut air pollution
- Zero ‘good air days’ in Varanasi, Allahabad, Gwalior last year, activists want air pollution to be on election agenda
- Can we rely on DIY air pollution sensors?
- Scientists from UK, India meet to investigate air pollution
- Pedalling their way to reduce air pollution
- Two Children, One Rich, One Poor, Gasping for Air in Delhi’s Smog
- There’s no ‘credible’ study to quantify deaths caused by air pollution: Govt
- Blame crop burning for fog: IIT study
- 3 most polluted traffic junctions may be in for a breath of fresh air
- ‘In Delhi, you go inside for fresh air’: how I learned to breathe again pollution
- What it Means to Take the Long View on Air Pollution in Delhi
- Death by air: When just breathing is an effort
- Wanted: Political will to pay price for clean air
- As Delhi dominates the airpocalypse narrative, the rest of India quietly chokes to death
- Indians look for solutions only when toxic pollution soars
Delhi Smog Episode
- Delhi’s air quality turns ‘hazardous’
- Indian government declares Delhi air pollution an emergency
- Five charts to show Delhi is choking
- Record-breaking Air Pollution in Delhi
- Smog, smog everywhere, how are we to breathe? Delhiites vent on Twitter
- Delhi air pollution: Visibility down to 200 metres due to heavy smog
- Delhi Pollution: From Taj Mahal to Qutub Minar, hazy Instagram photos of smog-covered monuments
- What Delhi Government Says It Is Doing to Combat Air Pollution
- Centre, Delhi govt continue blame game as pollution engulfs North India; Iconic Taj Mahal lost in smog
- ‘Every breath is an effort’: Delhi residents suffer amid smog crisis
- Smog Chokes Delhi, Leaving Residents ‘Cowering by Our Air Purifiers’
- A Lesson for India in a Fog So Thick It Could Kill a Cow
- Hazy winter
- Indian Court Bans Fireworks Sales in Delhi to Fight Smog
In response, CPCB came up with a Graded Air Pollution Emergency Action Plan:
- SC okays Centre’s action plan to tackle air pollution in Delhi-NCR
- Supreme Court approves Centre’s graded response system to tackle Delhi-NCR’s air pollution
- ‘Hike parking 4 times if air quality severe’
Peer-reviewed Research Papers
To combat air inequality, governments and researchers must open their data [Commentary, not peer-reviewed] http://bit.ly/2hyPtws
- Highlighting Uncertainty and Recommendations for Improvement of Black Carbon Biomass Fuel-Based Emission Inventories in the Indo-Gangetic Plain Region [Current Environmental Health Reports, Link]
- Exposure science in an age of rapidly changing climate: challenges and opportunities [Global] [JESEE, Link]
- Haze, public health and mitigation measures in China: A review of the current evidence for further policy response [Global] [Science of the Total Environment, Link]
- Water soluble inorganic species of PM10 and PM2.5 at an urban site of Delhi, India: Seasonal variability and sources [Atmospheric Research, Link]
- Size distributions of n-alkanes, fatty acids and fatty alcohols in springtime aerosols from New Delhi, India [Environmental Pollution, Link]
- Estimation of risk factor of elements and PAHs in size-differentiated particles in the National Capital Region of India [Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, Link]
- Characteristics of Exposure to Particles due to Incense Burning inside Temples in Kanpur, India [AAQR, Link]
- Extreme Events of Reactive Ambient Air Pollutants and their Distribution Pattern at Urban Hotspots [AAQR, Link]
- Atmospheric Dispersion of PM2.5 Precursor Gases from Two Major Thermal Power Plants in Andhra Pradesh, India [AAQR, Link]
- Significance of PM2.5 Air Quality at the Indian Capital [AAQR, Link]
- Sensitivity Analysis of CALINE4 Model under Mix Traffic Conditions [AAQR, Link]
- Bryomonitoring of Atmospheric Elements in Rhodobryum giganteum (Schwaegr.) Par., Growing in Uttarakhand Region of Indian Himalayas [AAQR, Link]
- Low Molecular Weight Monocarboxylic Acids in PM2.5 and PM10: Quantification, Seasonal Variation and Source Apportionment [AAQR, Link]
- Light Absorbing Properties of Brown Carbon Generated from Pyrolytic Combustion of Household Biofuels [AAQR, Link]
- Variability of tropospheric columnar NO2 and SO2 over eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain and impact of meteorology [Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, Link]
- Contamination of building roof dust in India [Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, Link]
- Short term effects of criteria air pollutants on daily mortality in Delhi, India [Atmospheric Environment, Link]
- Evaluating spatial distribution and seasonal variation of phthalates using passive air sampling in southern India [Environmental Pollution, Link]
- Exposure assessment of children to particulate matter and gaseous species in school environments of Pune, India [Building and Environment, Link]
- Indoor Particulate Matter < 2.5 μm in Mean Aerodynamic Diameter and Carbon Monoxide Levels During the Burning of Mosquito Coils and Their Association With Respiratory Health [Chest, Link]
- Observations of ambient trace gas and PM10 concentrations at Patna, Central Ganga Basin during 2013–2014: The influence of meteorological variables on atmospheric pollutants [Atmospheric Research, Link]
- Meridional gradients in aerosol vertical distribution over Indian Mainland: Observations and model simulations [Atmospheric Environment, Link]
- Dual carbon isotope characterization of total organic carbon in wintertime carbonaceous aerosols from northern India [JGR-Atmospheres, Link]
- Municipal solid waste and dung cake burning: discoloring the Taj Mahal and human health impacts in Agra [Environmental Research Letters, Link]
- Comparison of Two Receptor Model Techniques for the Size Fractionated Particulate Matter Source Apportionment [AAQR, Link]
- Human health risk assessment of airborne trace elements in Dhanbad, India [Atmospheric Pollution Research, Link]
- A preliminary approach of the spatio-temporal distribution of cationic aerosol components in the ambient atmosphere of Kochi, India [Atmospheric Pollution Research, Link]
- WRF-Chem simulated surface ozone over South Asia during the pre-monsoon: Effects of emission inventories and chemical mechanisms [ACPD, Link]
- Chemical characterization of rainwater at a high-altitude site “Nainital” in the central Himalayas, India [Environmental Science and Pollution Research , Link]
Jobs/ Fellowships / Grants
- ICMR Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Air Pollution Modelling
- Harvard University Environmental Fellows Program
- Expression of interest for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (MSCA IFs) in 2017 and onwards at the Department for Environmental Science, Aarhus University
- PEER Grants- Call for Pre-Proposals
- RESPIRE3 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowships
- The IIHS Post-Doctoral Programme: A Call for Fellows
- Faculty Recruitment for IIT Bhubaneswar http://bit.ly/2gy302I
Miscellaneous
Delhi OpenAQ Workshop (November 2016): Info, Materials, Results, Press and Data Use Cases- http://bit.ly/2hP9lsK
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