
Heat Waves Are Unleashing a Deadly but Overlooked Pollutant
Science, Spoken
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India's Poor Air Quality and Common Heat Waves Make Ozone a Serious Threat
India's poor air quality and increasingly common heat waves make ozone a particularly grave threat here. Ozone enters plants through small pores on their leaves, then kills cells by oxidizing them. The gas also threatens food security by causing plant yields to reduce drastically. At present, Somvanchi says India is not doing anything about ozone.
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