As Pollution Levels In India Drop, Some Parts Of The Country Start Seeing The Himalayas For The First Time In Almost 30 Years
A short while ago we talked about some positive effects the coronavirus quarantine had on the environment, like pollution levels dropping above Italy and the canals of Venice clearing up. But it’s not just Italy that was positively affected. Some people living in the Jalandhar district in Punjab, Northern India, located around 125 miles (200 km) away from the Himalayas, reported that now that the pollution levels above the country have dropped, they’re able to see the mountains for the first time in 30 years.
A few days ago, Indian cricket player Harbhajan Singh shared a photo of the Himalayan mountains taken from the rooftop of his home in Jalandhar and soon enough more locals joined in with some amazing pictures. Check them out in the gallery below!
Indian cricket player Harbhajan Singh recently shared a photo of the Himalayas taken from his home in Jalandhar
In an interview with Bored Panda, Harbhajan said that seeing mountains from his home town was “unbelievable”. He noticed that the air quality near his home has improved and says it’s the reason why the mountains are visible again.
The mountains are visible again due to the reduced pollution in the region
Someone even said that it’s the first time in 30 years that the mountains are so clearly visible
To help stop the spread of the virus, India underwent a 21-day lockdown and the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it’s necessary in order to “save India, to save its every citizen”. There are currently nearly 7k reported coronavirus cases in the country.
People living in Northern India also started sharing photos of the mountains taken from their homes
India Today Intelligence Unity reported a 33% improvement in air quality in the country between March 16 and 27 while India’s Central Pollution Control Board has also reported that the coronavirus lockdown had a positive effect on the air quality. According to WHO, India exceeds the safe limits of air quality a whopping five times so the current lockdown could possibly help improve this number.
People loved the pictures of mountains
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20-Year-Old Engineer’s Idea To Make Ocean Clean Itself Will Be Launched Next Year
Boyan Slat is a 20 year old with an idea on how to clean plastic trash from our oceans. The Ocean Cleanup initiative wants to reduce the amount of trash in the oceans by employing floating barriers that are moored to the seabed. They would collect lighter-than-water plastic trash with the help of the ocean currents and without harming sea life.
The pilot, which will be deployed near Tsushima Island (located between Japan and Korea) in the first quarter of 2016, will test the durability and viability of the project. It will be only 2000 meters long, a far cry from the planned 100 kilometers length, but it will still be the longest floating structure on Earth.
Cleaning up plastic garbage in ocean, like the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is impractical with ships. However, the 100km stationary cleanup array could remove 42% of the Garbage Patch over 10 years, 70,320,000kg in total.
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When it’s deployed in 2016, the 2,000m floating line will become the longest floating structure in the world.
This concept will test out 20-year-old Boyan Slat’s plan to rid the oceans of floating plastic waste.
This plan would use ocean currents to skim the plastic trash without harming the sea life.
The eventual Ocean Cleanup Array would be a 100km long and able to collect 70,320,000kg of plastic waste over 10 years
Estimated clean up cost would be roughly 4.53 euros (5.04 USD) per kilogram – 3% of the cost of other potential clean-up methods
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