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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xuan Liu, Jay R Turner, Christopher R Oxford, Jacob McNeill, Brenna Walsh, Emmie Le Roy, Crystal L Weagle, Emily Stone, Haihui Zhu, Wenyu Liu, Zilin Wei, Nicole P Hyslop, Jason Giacomo, Ann M Dillner, Abdus Salam, Al-Amin Hossen, Zubayer Islam, Ihab Abboud, Clement Akoshile, Omar Amador-Muñoz, Nguyen Xuan Anh, Araya Asfaw, Rajasekhar Balasubramanian, Rachel Ying-Wen Chang, Craig Coburn, Sagnik Dey, David J Diner, Jinlu Dong, Tareq Farrah, Paterne Gahungu, Rebecca M Garland, Michel Grutter de la Mora, Sina Hasheminassab, Juanette John, Jhoon Kim, Jong Sung Kim, Kristy Langerman, Pei-Chen Lee, Puji Lestari, Yang Liu, Tesfaye Mamo, Mathieu Martins, Olga L Mayol-Bracero, Mogesh Naidoo, Sang Seo Park, Yoav Schechner, Robyn Schofield, Sachchida N Tripathi, Eli Windwer, Ming-Tsang Wu, Qiang Zhang, Michael Brauer, Yinon Rudich, Randall V Martin
Global ground-level measurements of elements in ambient particulate matter (PM) can provide valuable information to understand the distribution of dust and trace elements, assess health impacts, and investigate emission sources. We use X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to characterize the elemental composition of PM samples collected from 27 globally distributed sites in the Surface PARTiculate mAtter Network (SPARTAN) over 2019-2023. Consistent protocols are applied to collect all samples and analyze them at one central laboratory, which facilitates comparison across different sites...
April 12, 2024: ACS EST Air
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kritika Anand, Gagandeep Kaur Walia, Siddhartha Mandal, Jyothi S Menon, Ruby Gupta, Nikhil Tandon, K M Venkat Narayan, Mohammed K Ali, Viswanathan Mohan, Joel D Schwartz, Dorairaj Prabhakaran
BACKGROUND: Exposure to ambient PM2.5 is known to affect lipid metabolism through systemic inflammation and oxidative stress. Evidence from developing countries, such as India with high levels of ambient PM2.5 and distinct lipid profiles, is sparse. METHODS: Longitudinal nonlinear mixed-effects analysis was conducted on >10,000 participants of Centre for cArdiometabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia (CARRS) cohort in Chennai and Delhi, India. We examined associations between 1-month and 1-year average ambient PM2...
April 2024: Environmental Epidemiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jianhua Liu, Chao He, Yajun Si, Bin Li, Qian Wu, Jinmian Ni, Yue Zhao, Qixin Hu, Shenwen Du, Zhendong Lu, Jiming Jin, Chao Xu
To reduce the high burden of disease caused by air pollution, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new Air Quality Guidelines (AQG) on September 22, 2021. In this study, the daily fine particulate matter (PM2.5 ) and surface ozone (O3 ) data of 618 cities around the world is collected from 2019 to 2022. Based on the new AQG, the number of attainment days for daily average concentrations of PM2.5 (≤ 15 µg m-3 ) and O3 (≤ 100 µg m-3 ) is approximately 10% and 90%, respectively...
April 2024: Global Challenges
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
William Checkley, Lisa M Thompson, Shakir Hossen, Laura Nicolaou, Kendra N Williams, Stella M Hartinger, Marilu Chiang, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Sarada S Garg, Gurusamy Thangavel, Vigneswari Aravindalochanan, Ghislaine Rosa, Alexie Mukeshimana, Florien Ndagijimana, John P McCracken, Anaité Diaz-Artiga, Sheela S Sinharoy, Lance Waller, Jiantong Wang, Shirin Jabbarzadeh, Yunyun Chen, Kyle Steenland, Miles A Kirby, Usha Ramakrishnan, Michael Johnson, Ajay Pillarisetti, Eric D McCollum, Rachel Craik, Eric O Ohuma, Victor G Dávila-Román, Lisa de Las Fuentes, Suzanne M Simkovich, Jennifer L Peel, Thomas F Clasen, Aris T Papageorghiou
BACKGROUND: Household air pollution might lead to fetal growth restriction during pregnancy. We aimed to investigate whether a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) intervention to reduce personal exposures to household air pollution during pregnancy would alter fetal growth. METHODS: The Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial was an open-label randomised controlled trial conducted in ten resource-limited settings across Guatemala, India, Peru, and Rwanda...
May 2024: Lancet Global Health
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REVIEW
Yixuan Han, Xiang Gu, Chunye Lin, Mengchang He, Yidi Wang
The COVID-19 pandemic during 2020-2023 has wrought adverse impacts on coastal and marine environments. This study conducts a comprehensive review of the collateral effects of COVID-19 on these ecosystems through literature review and bibliometric analysis. According to the output and citation analysis of these publications, researchers from the coastal countries in Asia, Europe, and America payed more attentions to this environmental issue than other continents. Specifically, India, China, and USA were the top three countries in the publications, with the proportion of 19...
April 3, 2024: Chemosphere
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mansi Pathak, Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath
Atmospheric pollution is a great problem in many countries, including India, and it is generally considered as an urban issue. To fill the knowledge gap about particulate pollution and its adverse health effects in rural India for well-informed region-specific policy interventions, we present new insights on the rural pollution of India in terms of PM2.5 . Here, we analyse PM2.5 pollution and its associated health burden in rural India using satellite and reanalyses data for the period 2000-2019. We observe a gradual and consistent rise of atmospheric pollution in rural areas of India...
March 20, 2024: Environmental Pollution
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Iravati Ray, Sambuddha Misra, Mengli Chen, Xianfeng Wang, Reshmi Das
Plant metal uptake can occur through both soil-root and atmospheric transfer from leaves. The latter holds potential implications for development of biofiltration systems. To explore this potential, it is crucial to understand entrapment capacity and metal sources within plants. As ferns absorb materials from atmosphere, this study focuses on two abundant fern species growing in densely populated and highly polluted regions of Eastern India. Gravimetric quantification, elemental concentration and Pb isotopic analyses were performed by segregating the ferns into distinct components: foliage dusts (loose dust (LD) and wax-bound dust (WD)) and plant tissue (leaves and roots)...
March 16, 2024: Journal of Hazardous Materials
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Baojun Guo, Hui Gan, Mingshan Xue, Zhifeng Huang, Zhiwei Lin, Shiyun Li, Peiyan Zheng, Baoqing Sun
BACKGROUND: This study analyzed the burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in China, the United States, and India from 1990 to 2019 and projected the trends for the next decade. METHODS: This study utilized the GBD 2019 to compare the age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR), age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR), age-standardized disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) rate, and the proportion attributed to different risk factors in China, the United States, and India...
2024: International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shritama Mukhopadhyay, Ratna Dutta, Papita Das
In this study, efficiencies of eight indigenous plants of Baishnabghata Patuli Township (BPT), southeast Kolkata, India, were explored as green barrier species and potentials of plant leaves were exploited for biomonitoring of particulate matter (PM) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The present work focused on studying PM capturing abilities (539.32-2766.27 μg cm-2 ) of plants (T. divaricata, N. oleander and B. acuminata being the most efficient species in retaining PM) along with the estimation of foliar contents of PM adhered to leaf surfaces (total sPM (large + coarse): 526...
March 9, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Siddhartha Mandal, Ajit Rajiva, Itai Kloog, Jyothi S Menon, Kevin J Lane, Heresh Amini, Gagandeep K Walia, Shweta Dixit, Amruta Nori-Sarma, Anubrati Dutta, Praggya Sharma, Suganthi Jaganathan, Kishore K Madhipatla, Gregory A Wellenius, Jeroen de Bont, Chandra Venkataraman, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Poornima Prabhakaran, Petter Ljungman, Joel Schwartz
High-resolution assessment of historical levels is essential for assessing the health effects of ambient air pollution in the large Indian population. The diversity of geography, weather patterns, and progressive urbanization, combined with a sparse ground monitoring network makes it challenging to accurately capture the spatiotemporal patterns of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5 ) pollution in India. We developed a model for daily average ambient PM2.5 between 2008 and 2020 based on monitoring data, meteorology, land use, satellite observations, and emissions inventories...
March 2024: PNAS Nexus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zainab Mushtaq, Pargin Bangotra, Alok Sagar Gautam, Manish Sharma, Suman, Sneha Gautam, Karan Singh, Yogesh Kumar, Poonam Jain
Air pollution is growing at alarming rates on regional and global levels, with significant consequences for human health, ecosystems, and change in climatic conditions. The present 12 weeks (4 October 2021, to 26 December 2021) study revealed the different ambient air quality parameters, i.e., PM2.5 , PM10 , SO2 , NO2 , and O3 over four different sampling stations of Delhi-NCR region (Dwarka, Knowledge park III, Sector 125, and Vivek Vihar), India, by using satellite remote sensing data (MERRA-2, OMI, and Aura Satellite) and different ground-based instruments...
March 4, 2024: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Noel George, Jang Bahadur Prasad, Elizabeth Varghese, Richu Rajesh, Aravind Kumar
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 has become a global pandemic, prompting lockdowns in practically every country. To prevent the spread of the disease, India has enforced a rigorous nationwide lockdown that commenced in March 2020. The lockdown imposed amid the pandemic ensured that most commercial activities and vehicle transportation ceased, resulting in a significant reduction in air pollution levels. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The value of air pollutants PM10, PM2.5, NO2 , and SO2 from January to May 2020 was obtained from the Indian Central Pollution Control Board...
2024: Indian Journal of Community Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jyoti Mathur, Ritu Panwar
The environment in India is contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) due to the occurrence of large anthropogenic activities, i.e., fuel combustion, mineral roasting, and biomass burning. Hence, 13 toxic PAHs were detected: phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene, pyrene, and benz(a) anthracene, ben-zo; (b) fluoranthene, benzo(k) fluoranthene, benzo(a) pyrene, benzo(ghi)perylene, dibenz (ah) anthracene, indeno1,2,3-(cd) pyrene, coronene and coronene in the environment (i.e., ambient particulate matter, road dust, sludge, and sewage) of the most industrialized area...
February 21, 2024: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gufran Beig, V Anand, N Korhale, S B Sobhana, K M Harshitha, R H Kripalani
The recent La-Nina phase of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon unusually lasted for third consecutive year, has disturbed global weather and linked to Indian monsoon. However, our understanding on the linkages of such changes to regional air quality is poor. We hereby provide a mechanism that beyond just influencing the meteorology, the interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere during the retreating phase of the La-Niña produced secondary results that significantly influenced the normal distribution of air quality over India through disturbed large-scale wind patterns...
February 15, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Saleha Jamal, Uzma Ajmal, Md Babor Ali, Mohd Saqib, Shamsul Arfeen
The study attempts to examine the impact of firework activities during Diwali Festival on ambient air quality of Jodhpur city. Air quality parameters particulate matter of diameter 10 μm (PM10 ), particulate matter of diameter 2.5 μm (PM2.5 ), sulfur dioxide (SO2) , nitrogen dioxide (NO2 ) and heavy metals in PM2.5 like Pb, Ni, Ba, Al, As and Sr are monitored at two locations, for 15 days, starting from 7 days before the festival of Diwali, on the day of the festival (Diwali) and 7 days after Diwali...
January 31, 2024: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ashley Younger, Wenlu Ye, Abbey Alkon, Kristen Harknett, Miles A Kirby, Lisa Elon, Amy E Lovvorn, Jiantong Wang, Anaité Diaz-Artiga, John P McCracken, Adly Castañaza Gonzalez, Libny Monroy Alarcon, Alexie Mukeshimana, Ghislaine Rosa, Marilu Chiang, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Sarada S Garg, Ajay Pillarisetti, Ricardo Piedrahita, Michael A Johnson, Rachel Craik, Aris T Papageorghiou, Ashley Toenjes, Kendra N Williams, Lindsay J Underhill, Stella M Hartinger, Laura Nicolaou, Howard H Chang, Luke P Naeher, Joshua Rosenthal, William Checkley, Jennifer L Peel, Thomas F Clasen, Lisa M Thompson
Household air pollution (HAP) from cooking with solid fuels used during pregnancy has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. The Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial was a randomized controlled trial that assessed the impact of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stove and fuel intervention on health in Guatemala, India, Peru, and Rwanda. Here we investigated the effects of the LPG stove and fuel intervention on stillbirth, congenital anomalies and neonatal mortality and characterized exposure-response relationships between personal exposures to fine particulate matter (PM2...
January 27, 2024: Environmental Pollution
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mihir Adhikary, Piyasa Mal, Nandita Saikia
BACKGROUND: India is facing a burdensome public health challenge due to air pollution, with a particularly high burden of acute respiratory infections (ARI) among children. To address this issue, our study aims to evaluate the association between exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5 ) and ARI incidence in young children in India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Our study used PM2.5 data provided by the Atmospheric Composition Analysis Group at Washington University to assess the association between PM2...
January 25, 2024: Environmental Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Debendra Dalai, Rupali Jandrotia, Sanjay Sharma, Varinder Kanwar, Jyotsna Kaushal
The degradation of ambient air quality is a pressing global concern, and India, as a developing nation, has witnessed a rapid surge in industrial activities in recent decades. This surge has resulted in numerous Indian cities ranking among the world's most polluted urban areas. Chandigarh, strategically positioned within the Indo-Gangetic plains (IGP), has not escaped this distressing trend, experiencing a significant spike in air pollution levels. This study focuses on comprehending and addressing the air quality issues in Chandigarh, shedding light on the evolution of air pollution trends and their dependence on meteorological factors...
January 17, 2024: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Buddhadev Ghosh, Harish Chandra Barman, Sayoni Ghosh, Md Maimun Habib, Jayashree Mahato, Lovely Dayal, Susmita Mahato, Priti Sao, Atul Chandra Murmu, Ayontika Deb Chowdhury, Sourina Pramanik, Rupsa Biswas, Sushil Kumar, Pratap Kumar Padhy
Air pollution is one of the most significant threats to human safety due to its detrimental health consequences worldwide. This study examines the air pollution levels in 22 districts of West Bengal from 2016 to 2021, using data from 81 stations operated by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB). The study assesses the short- and long-term impacts of particulate matter (PM) on human health. The highest annual variation of PM10 was noted in 2016 (106.99 ± 34.17 μg/m3 ), and the lowest was reported in 2020 (88...
January 17, 2024: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Association between sea-land breeze and particulate matter in five coastal urban locations in India.
V Varaprasad, Vijay P Kanawade, A C Narayana
Particulate matter less than 2.5 μm particle diameter (PM2.5 ) is the most significant environmental issue globally and is an integral component of air quality monitoring and management, human health, weather, climate, and epidemiological research. In this work, we investigate the seasonal variation in PM2.5 mass concentrations and the association between the sea-land breeze system and particulate matter in five coastal urban locations in India (Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, and Mumbai)...
January 3, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
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