🔆National Air Quality Index (NAQI)
✅ Released by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
✅ Includes 8 pollutants-PM10, PM2.5, NO2, Ozone, SO2, CO, NH3 andlead (Pb).
✅ AQI communicates air quality status using six categories (ranging from Good to Severe).
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✅ Released by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
✅ Includes 8 pollutants-PM10, PM2.5, NO2, Ozone, SO2, CO, NH3 andlead (Pb).
✅ AQI communicates air quality status using six categories (ranging from Good to Severe).
#pre_revision
#environment
Join @CSE_EXAM
@Upsc_4_environment
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🔆 Solid Organic Carbon (SOC): Key to Healthy Soil & Sustainability
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📍 What is SOC?
✅ Solid Organic Carbon refers to non-living organic material in the solid part of soil.
✅ Originates from decomposition of dead plants, animals, and microbes.
📍 Why is SOC Important?
✅ Acts as a building block for soil health, contributing to:
• Improved soil structure: Enhances drainage & aeration by binding soil particles.
• Increased water retention: Works like a sponge, absorbing & holding water.
• Enhanced nutrient cycling: Supplies key nutrients via microbial decomposition.
📍 How to Protect & Increase SOC Levels?
✅ Sustainable agricultural practices: Minimal tillage, composting, cover cropping.
✅ Afforestation & reforestation: More vegetation = more organic matter = higher SOC.
✅ Conservation efforts: Protecting existing forests & ecosystems sustains SOC naturally.
#Environment
📍 What is SOC?
✅ Solid Organic Carbon refers to non-living organic material in the solid part of soil.
✅ Originates from decomposition of dead plants, animals, and microbes.
📍 Why is SOC Important?
✅ Acts as a building block for soil health, contributing to:
• Improved soil structure: Enhances drainage & aeration by binding soil particles.
• Increased water retention: Works like a sponge, absorbing & holding water.
• Enhanced nutrient cycling: Supplies key nutrients via microbial decomposition.
📍 How to Protect & Increase SOC Levels?
✅ Sustainable agricultural practices: Minimal tillage, composting, cover cropping.
✅ Afforestation & reforestation: More vegetation = more organic matter = higher SOC.
✅ Conservation efforts: Protecting existing forests & ecosystems sustains SOC naturally.
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