The Journal
Analysis and reporting on India’s environment. Every figure carries the date it was observed.
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IITM's new atmospheric chemistry lab publishes a daily split of Delhi's PM2.5 into 15 source categories, the first in nearly three years. Between 29% and 42% of it is secondary particles that nobody can yet trace to a source, and the forecast model beside it still runs on a 2021 emissions estimate.
On the evening of 8 September, one Delhi monitor read 35 and another read 211. Both were CPCB stations, both were reporting normally, and both were describing the same city at the same hour.
India's own forest report records a net increase of 156.41 km² between 2021 and 2023. Madhya Pradesh alone lost 371.54 km². Both figures are in the same table, and the second is the one that does not survive being averaged.
Work Swechha did, first published here.
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