{"id":298639,"date":"2024-06-07T17:39:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T12:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=298639"},"modified":"2024-06-07T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T12:10:08","slug":"air-of-the-anthropocene-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/air-of-the-anthropocene-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Air of the Anthropocene Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source-<\/strong>This post on<strong> Air of the Anthropocene Initiative<\/strong> has been created based on the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/global-project-paints-evidence-of-air-pollution-in-india\/article68254930.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cGlobal project \u2018paints\u2019 evidence of air pollution in India\u201d<\/a> published in\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe Hindu\u201d<\/strong> on 7 June 2024.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why in News?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The &#8220;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Air of the Anthropocene<\/span>&#8221; project uses <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">light painting<\/span> to visualize air pollution in India, Ethiopia, and the UK. This emphasizes severe health risks and ignites global discussions on air quality.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">About the \u2018Air of the Anthropocene\u2019 Initiative<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. The &#8220;Air of the Anthropocene&#8221; project is an <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">international effort<\/span> that combines art and science to show air pollution in a visual way using light painting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. Artists and researchers worked together to create <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">photographic evidence of air pollution by using digital light painting techniques<\/span> and low-cost air pollution sensors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. The &#8220;painting with light&#8221; team used low-cost air pollution sensors to measure PM mass concentrations. They used the sensors&#8217; real-time data to control a moving LED array, which flashed more rapidly as PM concentrations increased.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">About Particulate Matter<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Particulate matter (PM) is a mixture of tiny solid particles and liquid droplets floating in the air. It includes things like <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">dust, pollen, soot, smoke, <span style=\"color: #333333;\">and<\/span> liquid drops<\/span>.<br \/>\n<strong>PM10-<\/strong> inhalable particles, with diameters that are generally 10 micrometers and smaller; and.<br \/>\n<strong>PM2.5-<\/strong> fine inhalable particles, with diameters that are generally 2.5 micrometers and smaller.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. These particles can be both <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">organic<\/span> (from living things) and<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> inorganic<\/span> (from non-living things) and come in various sizes and from different sources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>UPSC Syllabus: Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on Air of the Anthropocene Initiative has been created based on the article \u201cGlobal project \u2018paints\u2019 evidence of air pollution in India\u201d published in\u00a0\u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 7 June 2024. Why in News? The &#8220;Air of the Anthropocene&#8221; project uses light painting to visualize air pollution in India, Ethiopia, and the UK. This emphasizes&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/air-of-the-anthropocene-initiative\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air of the Anthropocene Initiative<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-298639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}