Air air pollution in Istanbul will increase by 14 pct in a yr

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Air air pollution in Istanbul elevated by about 14 p.c within the first seven months of 2024 in comparison with the identical interval of 2023, the state-run Anadolu Company (AA) reported.

Accordingly, the common nitrogen dioxide, which signifies air air pollution, was measured as 40.61 micrograms / cubic meter between January 1 and July 31, 2024. This determine was 35.55 in the identical interval in 2023.

Meteorological Engineering Professor Hüseyin Toros informed AA that visitors was a very powerful consider air air pollution in Istanbul.

“Because the variety of autos will increase, the visitors jams in Istanbul improve, and as autos cease and go, they launch extra emissions and the environment turns into extra polluted,” Toros mentioned and urged the residents to make use of public transport extra.

“When evaluating the temperature information of earlier years in June in our nation, we see that the temperature is 3.6 levels increased (on common). The background of all this lies in air air pollution, that’s, the actions that we, as people, do,” added Toros.

Toros concluded that the speed of particulate matter decreased, whereas the quantity of sulfur dioxide, ozone, and carbon monoxide elevated in Istanbul.