TTeacher🇳🇵🌱 Right now, Kathmandu is second most polluted city.

Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) TTeacher🇳🇵🌱 Is it mostly dust? Or, vehicular exhausts, biomass burning, industrial emissions?

𝘼𝙟𝙖𝙮 ★ 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙣 🧢 Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) TTeacher🇳🇵🌱 I think the reason for the recent one was a forest fire.

Agnostic_Girl Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) TTeacher🇳🇵🌱 Just saw Kunda Dixit's tweet about forest fires.

Now that the temperatures are rising and monsoon is still months away, the first forest will continue this air pollution for months.

𝘼𝙟𝙖𝙮 ★ 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙣 🧢 Agnostic_Girl Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) I hope we get some relief from it. It’s awful.

TTeacher🇳🇵🌱 𝘼𝙟𝙖𝙮 ★ 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙣 🧢 Agnostic_Girl I doubt it! We are in #ForestFire season now, & worse, humans DELIBERATELY cause a large majority of them. If my memory servs me right, last year something like 90% of them had been. 😢😢😢 #Kathmandu #Nepal #AirPollution #Fire #Particulates

Dorje Gurung, ScD (h.c.) TTeacher🇳🇵🌱 Agnostic_Girl Yeah, Agnostic_Girl told me about the forest fire being the cause of the current air pollution.

𝘼𝙟𝙖𝙮 ★ 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙣 🧢 TTeacher🇳🇵🌱 Agnostic_Girl Yup, I recalled correctly: last year, humans were the cause of >90% of the #ForestFires in #Nepal . #AirPollution

twitter.com/Dorje_sDooing/…

𝘼𝙟𝙖𝙮 ★ 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙣 🧢 TTeacher🇳🇵🌱 Agnostic_Girl And why do Nepalis set fire to forests?

See below. 😢😢😢😢😢 #Nepal #AirPollution #ForestFires twitter.com/Dorje_sDooing/…

𝘼𝙟𝙖𝙮 ★ 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙣 🧢 TTeacher🇳🇵🌱 Agnostic_Girl And FYI, #Nepal has Buddha's birth, Bir Gorkhalis, & the HIGHEST mountain to take pride in.
We also have one of highest female & teenage suicide rates...to take pride in?
And finally, the country ALSO has the HIGHEST #LungDisease death rate in the world! scidev.net/asia-pacific/n…

𝘼𝙟𝙖𝙮 ★ 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙝𝙖𝙣 🧢 TTeacher🇳🇵🌱 Agnostic_Girl About current #ForestFires . #Nepal #AirPollution #KathmanduAir #KathmanduAir Pollution twitter.com/durgakrk/statu…