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India’s Delhi-only air pollution problem

Posted on October 28, 2019 by

I woke up this morning to a PTI report telling me Delhi’s air quality had fallen to ‘very poor’ on Deepavali, the Hindu ostensible festival of lights, with many people defying the Supreme Court’s direction to burst firecrackers only between 8 pm … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Scicomm | Tagged CSIR National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, CSIR NEERI, decibels, Deepavali, Diwali, festival of lights, green firecrackers, Heinz Nixdorf Recall, human loudness, noise pollution, Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules 2000, sound pollution | Comments Off