Хималаите може да не са девствени, изследването показва наличие на токсични метали в облаци
Хималайските облаци, един път се счита, че оферират най-чиста питейна вода, може да бъде тихо да носи токсични тежки метали, представяйки евентуални канцерогенни и не-карциногенни опасности за здравето, изключително за децата. A new study has highlighted that the clouds over the Eastern Himalayas contain 1.5 times higher pollution levels than those over the Western Ghats.
The study conducted by the Bose Institute, an autonomous body under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), identified significant levels of toxic metals such as cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) in non-precipitating clouds during the early monsoon season over the Western Ghats and Eastern Himalayas.
For the study, scientists investigated the composition of heavy metals in the non-precipitating low-level clouds collected on the rooftop of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in the Western Ghats and the Bose Institute campus located at Darjeeling in the Eastern Himalayas in 2...
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