{"id":35412,"date":"2025-01-20T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/viral-desais-urban-forests-transform-surats-air-quality-reducing-pollution-by-over-10-percent\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:32:31","slug":"viral-desais-urban-forests-transform-surats-air-quality-reducing-pollution-by-over-10-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/viral-desais-urban-forests-transform-surats-air-quality-reducing-pollution-by-over-10-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Desai\u2019s Urban Forests Transform Surat\u2019s Air Quality, Reducing Pollution by Over 10 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Surat (Gujarat) [India], January 17:\u00a0<\/strong>Viral Desai, the Green Man, has been instrumental in creating seven urban forests in and around Surat city over the past five years. His mission? To improve the biodiversity and air quality of Surat, a city of over a million people, while simultaneously reducing its overall temperature.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PNN-Images-17-01-22.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44622\"><\/figure>\n<p>Remarkably, these urban forests are now the subject of scientific research. A recent three-and-a-half-month study by SVNIT, a premier technical institute in India, revealed astonishing findings about \u2018Shahid Smriti Van\u2019, an urban forest created by Desai in Udhna. The study found that this forest has led to a significant reduction of 10.66% in PM 2.5 and 18.66% in PM 10 particles in the local air. These particles are primarily responsible for causing COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) in humans.<\/p>\n<p>The positive impact of these urban forests on the city\u2019s air quality has fueled Desai\u2019s passion, driving him to create even more. To date, he has planted over 650,000 trees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surat (Gujarat) [India], January 17:\u00a0Viral Desai, the Green Man, has been instrumental in creating seven&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[637],"class_list":["post-35412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajasthanexpress.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}