Articles by Aishwarya Madineni

In response to the statement issued by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board refuting the findings of the air-quality monitoring work released by Co Media Lab and Climate Trends, the organisations have in turn issued a clarification that the exercise was done to measure peak hour pollution levels in the city for a select amount of time on select routes in the morning as well as in the evening. The objective of the study was to measure and bring to fore the personalised exposure levels one is being subjected to while traveling on busy roads for a few hours every…

Bengaluru's air quality crisis, unlike that in the cities of the north, is a silent one; most online ambient stations which provide information to the public paint a fairly clean picture of the city’s air, though most of its citizens feel otherwise. In an effort to understand the palpable pollution levels in the air we breathe, in comparison to the ambient data being generated by the KSPCB, Co Media Lab and Climate Trends carried out a 7-day air quality monitoring exercise with the help of a low-cost monitor used to measure personalised exposure levels. The activity was spread over a…