How realistic was it to check the air quality for every square kilometer of a city or a state without installing thousands of expensive air quality monitors? Not very until last week. 

As winners of Social Alpha's Urban Livability Challenge, Blue Sky Analytics partnered with Parisar to provide hyperlocal air quality data with 1 km2 resolution to citizens of Pune at a fraction of the cost of installing new ground monitors. Magic of mixing ground sensors with satellite data  😇

At the launch event by Pune Smart City, we heard policy-makers, school kids, and the elderly already using it to cut their exposure. Check it out here!

October is here, and air pollution in North India back. The festive weekend of Dussehra burning Ravana effigies combines with stubble burning in Punjab has shot air pollution in the northern airshed over the charts. Covid and Air Pollution is a deadly combination, keep checking data on BreeZo and take care accordingly. 

Saying goodbye to Arctic Ice. The rate at which the Arctic is heating up, might lead to zero sea ice during the summers by 2035. Why should you care? 

Wildfire-weary Californians are leaving, and they are not alone. With Insurance price shooting off the charts, Californians are leaving home and not coming back. In a shifting climate, is this the new refugee crisis?

And for some good news, congratulations to climate-focused edtech startup Terra.do for closing their seed round!  

Q: Will anything we do matter if the US and China don't cut back on coal?"

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