Air quality impacts of crop residue burning in India and mitigation alternatives

oleh: Ruoyu Lan, Sebastian D. Eastham, Tianjia Liu, Leslie K. Norford, Steven R. H. Barrett

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01

Deskripsi

We quantify the air quality and health impacts of Indian crop residue burning and trace these impacts back to individual burning events by hour and district. We find that small interventions, such as burning one hour earlier in the day, may provide broad public health benefits