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🚨#Peshawar is the most polluted city in #Pakistan today.
The #AQI is over 270, nearing the "hazardous" category. The PM2.5 concentration currently is 43.2 times the WHO annual #AirQuality guideline value. 😷
Data from @IQAir and #PCAA.
The #AQI is over 270, nearing the "hazardous" category. The PM2.5 concentration currently is 43.2 times the WHO annual #AirQuality guideline value. 😷
Data from @IQAir and #PCAA.
At this level for healthy individuals:
🚨50% experience moderate/greater lung function impairment
🚨20% experience large/greater lung function impairments
🚨10-15% experience moderate/severe respiratory symptoms (chest pain with aggravated cough)
(US EPA Risk Assessment)
🚨50% experience moderate/greater lung function impairment
🚨20% experience large/greater lung function impairments
🚨10-15% experience moderate/severe respiratory symptoms (chest pain with aggravated cough)
(US EPA Risk Assessment)
Individuals with asthma, other respiratory conditions will likely be more severely impacted, leading to increased emergency room & clinic visits & increased hospital admissions. 🏥
😷Wear a mask
🪟Close your windows
🚲Avoid outdoor activities
🫁Run an air purifier if you can
😷Wear a mask
🪟Close your windows
🚲Avoid outdoor activities
🫁Run an air purifier if you can
NEW - U.S. special forces launched a helicopter-borne raid in #Assad-controlled territory ~15km south of #Qamishli in NE #Syria overnight, killing a senior #ISIS leader & capturing several others alive.
That’s the 1st op in regime-held areas since Abu Ghadiya in Oct 2008.
That’s the 1st op in regime-held areas since Abu Ghadiya in Oct 2008.
#PollutionWatch: Total Ban on Sale, Use of All Kinds of #Firecrackers in NCR from November 9-30: NGT
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(📸: Anindya Chattopadhyay/BCCL Delhi)
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(📸: Anindya Chattopadhyay/BCCL Delhi)
#NGT has ordered imposition of a total ban on sale or use of all kinds of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR or any other city or town across the country where the average ambient air quality from November 9-10 to the midnight of Nov 30-Dec 1 falls under the 'poor' and above category.
A bench of #NGT Chairperson Adarsh Kumar Goel passed the order on a batch of petition seeking remedial action against the use and sale of firecrackers amid the double whammy of pollution crisis and rising #coronavirus infections.
#PollutionWatch: Delhi Chief Minister @ArvindKejriwal Imposes Ban on #Firecrackers in Delhi till November 30
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(📸: IANS)
#Pollution #FirecrackersBan
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(📸: IANS)
#Pollution #FirecrackersBan
Delhi Chief Minister @ArvindKejriwal on Thursday held a review meeting on the coronavirus situation and the preparedness of Delhi to deal with the #COVID19 cases and also decided to ban #firecrackers, as both #pollution and COVID-19 are adversely impacting city residents.
"The Delhi government has decided to put a complete ban on the sale, purchase, and use of firecrackers in Delhi from November 7 to November 30."
#PollutionWatch #Pollution #AirQualityIndex #AQI #AirPollution
#PollutionWatch #Pollution #AirQualityIndex #AQI #AirPollution
BREAKING - #ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-#Baghdadi revealed in-person on new #ISIS video post-#Caliphate defeat in #Syria-#Iraq.
He appears in fine health, despite reports of severe injury.
He appears in fine health, despite reports of severe injury.
ISW's #ISIS sanctuary map provides an unclassified assessment of the geographic contours of ISIS's campaign. We resumed publishing the map in late 2018 w/ a new baseline of the ISIS "remnants".
This thread provides methodological notes about what the map is & isn't. 1/
This thread provides methodological notes about what the map is & isn't. 1/
ISW's collection & analysis during the counter-#ISIS campaign indicated that DoD's assessments were overestimating the effect of U.S.-led operations on ISIS's military capability. In early 2018, we @TheStudyofWar began a rigorous process of evaluating the actual impact. 2/
