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. 2019 May 28;116(22):10614-10616.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1905458116. Epub 2019 May 17.

Toward cleaner air for a billion Indians

Joshua S Apte  1 , Pallavi Pant  2
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Toward cleaner air for a billion Indians

Joshua S Apte et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Distribution of population for south-Asian countries with respect to year-2016 ambient PM2.5 concentrations (4). Equal-sized plotted areas reflect equal populations. The 860 million people in the northern portion of India, defined here as the region north of 21.5°N, live predominantly in the heavily polluted Indo-Gangetic Plain. This region extends into Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, countries which experience PM2.5 similar to northern India.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Source contributions to mortality associated with exposure to ambient PM2.5 from recent chemical transport model simulations for India (–12). The residential energy sector consistently ranks as one of the largest individual sectoral contributors to premature mortality from ambient PM2.5 air pollution.
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