{"id":13387,"date":"2014-03-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/03\/14\/study-points-to-rising-air-pollution-in-tirupati\/"},"modified":"2014-03-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T12:00:00","slug":"study-points-to-rising-air-pollution-in-tirupati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/03\/14\/study-points-to-rising-air-pollution-in-tirupati\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Points to Rising Air Pollution In Tirupati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/study-points-to-rising-air-pollution-in-tirupati\/article5780138.ece?homepage=true\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TIRUPATI, INDIA, March 13, 2014 (The Hindu): The temple city of Tirupati, a cultural centre and a major pilgrimage destination in southern India, might be succumbing to a phenomenon common to urban areas. There has been steady rise in population and the usage of vehicles here, which in turn contribute to increasing pollution levels of the city, a study by city-based researchers has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of eight hazardous air pollutants has been confirmed in the city&#8217;s atmosphere, says a research paper authored by Y.V. Rami Reddy, Associate Professor at Sri Venkateswara University&#8217;s Department of Chemistry and P. Muni Nagendra, a scientist at Hyderabad&#8217;s First Source Laboratory, pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Increased construction activities, vehicular emissions, road dust, burning of wood\/biomass, emissions from diesel generators etc., were to blame for the rising pollutions levels, Prof. Reddy said. &#8220;Though some elements are found in low concentrations, they can exert considerable influence on a range of health issues and environmental processes,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source TIRUPATI, INDIA, March 13, 2014 (The Hindu): The temple city of Tirupati, a cultural centre and a major pilgrimage,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}