Jan 5, 2020

🔥 Wildfires and Air Pollution rock Australia

Revue

Oxygen Mag

January 5 · Issue #40 · View online

Handpicked stories for people who care about clean air.

🙏 Namaste and Happy* New Year!

Thank you for your replies and tweets about the recent launch of AirPollution.io. It is my attempt to bring air quality forecasts and health advisories to our neighbors, nephews, aunties, cousins and their friends! Did you know that I recently added a 100 Most Polluted Places In India page that updates every hour with data courtesy of Dr. Sarath Guttikunda and the Urban Emissions team?

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Handpicked Stories For You 🙌

2010’s was the decade that climate change went from being a “problem for future generations” to an immediate unavoidable crisis for many more people around the world today. As you may have heard already, Australia is suffering from out of control wildfires. Half a billion animals have perished. Air Quality Index in Australia’s capital, Canberra, reached Seven Thousand Seven Hundred (7,700)! In this issue of Oxygen Mag, we dive deeper with stories you may have missed about it.

Next week, we’ll be joined by Dr. Pallavi Pant who has handpicked stories for you about the 2019 State of Global Air report.

Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison on climate change.

😷 Canberra chokes on world's worst air quality as city all but shut down

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Air quality index readings above 200 are considered hazardous. On Wednesday, readings at one Canberra monitoring site peaked at 7,700. BREATHING KILLS.

🤢 Australia's raging bushfires are leading to air pollution in New Zealand

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“Climate change has supercharged the bushfire problem.” WIND.

🤧 Millions of Australians Are Choking on Smoke From Wildfires - The New York Times

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Australians in major cities, not threatened by flames, are still experiencing this disastrous fire season in their lungs. COUGH.

🤒 Air quality: How bad is Sydney's smoke for health?

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Air quality has exceeded hazardous levels in Australia’s largest city, and the fires are far from over. VERY.

🏏 Heavy smoke forces BBL match in Canberra to be abandoned

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Concerns about air quality and visibility have denied Sydney Thunder victory over Adelaide Strikers, with their chase halted after 4.2 overs. <Insert sarcastic comment about how India doesn’t abandon cricket games during the airpocalypse because our lungs are immune.> CRICKET.

💔 ‘Heartbreaking’: 480,000,000 Animals Feared Dead in Aussie Fires

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Nearly half a billion animals are feared dead in the Australian wildfires, including thousands of the koala population in their main habitat in the state of New South Wales. THE 6TH EXTINCTION.

☠️ 'Silent death': Australia's bushfires push countless species to extinction

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Millions of animals have been killed in the fires but the impact on flora and fauna is more grim even than individual deaths. GRIM DETAILS.

⚫ Scott Morrison brings a chunk of coal into parliament

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In 2017, now Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison brought a chunk of coal into the chamber, taunting Labor about its energy policies by saying: ‘This is coal, don’t be afraid.’ Barnaby Joyce gleefully juggled the coal before passing around to colleagues while Morrison spruiked its virtues to the chamber. HISTORY.

A Note From Smokey's Nest 🌲

Emoji Air Pollution Map, powered by data from OpenAQ + NASA satellites.

👋 If you’re still reading this, please reply and say hello. I’d love to hear from you about what you’re working on and how I can help. Reading and replying to your emails is my favorite part of running Oxygen Mag.

Until next time,

-Amrit Sharma

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