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2016, in an event known as the Great Smog of Delhi, the air pollution spiked far beyond acceptable levels. Levels of PM2.5 and PM 10 particulate matter...

Smog, or smoke fog, is a type of intense air pollution. The word "smog" was coined in the early 20th century, and is a portmanteau of the words smoke...

Asian haze The 2016 Great Smog of Delhi The 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires Cancer Alley The Donora Smog of 1948 The Great Smog of 1952 Health problems...

November 2016, the Great smog of Delhi was an environmental event which saw New Delhi and adjoining areas in a dense blanket of smog, which was the worst...

Pradesh regions results in severe intensification of smog over Delhi. Currently, the NCT of Delhi is made up of one division, 11 districts, 33 subdivisions...

September 2023. Safi, Michael (7 November 2017). "Delhi doctors declare pollution emergency as smog chokes city". The Guardian. Archived from the original...

of the Delhi's electric power but produced 30%-40% of the city's particulate matter pollution from the energy sector. During the Great smog of Delhi,...

1948 Donora smog (United States) Great Smog of London 1966 New York City smog 2013 Harbin smog (China, 2013) Smog in Delhi Roholm, K. (1937). "The fog disaster...

and smog into the community. Major products like ethanol, rye, agricultural chemicals, and fertilizer products are sent back and forth between Delhi and...

emissions also threaten the health of children who tend to have weaker organs.[citation needed] Not only that but the smog from the stubble burning also severely...

passed in response to the Great Smog of London in 1952. Since smoke-producing constituents are driven off during the coking of coal, coke forms a desirable...

as part of the smog mitigation measures provided for in Beijing's red alert for hazardous smog, the first such alert issued ever. The smog alert system...

of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about 230 kilometres (140 mi) south-east of the national capital Delhi and 330 km west of the...

most polluted. During the smog of November 2017, the air quality index of Gurgaon and Faridabad showed that the density of fine particulates (2.5 μm diameter)...

taken in cities such as New Delhi, India, where buses now use compressed natural gas to help eliminate the "pea-soup" smog. A 2015 study in Europe has...

also developed a number of new methods of measuring pollution. In December 1952, the Great Smog of London led to the deaths of 12,000 people. This event...

lesser extent Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The debilitating air quality in Delhi is also due to the stubble burning in Punjab. The term atmospheric brown...

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its first smog alert which shut down a majority of the industry and other commercial businesses in the city. Later in the month another smog "red alert"...

the capital of several empires during the medieval era, including the Hindu Shahis, Ghaznavids and Delhi Sultanate. It reached the height of its splendor...