Health and environmental consequences of crop residue burning correlated with increasing crop yields midst India’s Green Revolution
Abstract The Green Revolution (GR) enhances crop yields significantly that contributes greatly to the social and economic development of many less developed countries. However, the increasing crop yields might rise crop residue biomass burning, leading to adverse environmental and health consequence...
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| author | Tao Huang Jianmin Ma Shijie Song Zaili Ling Robie W. Macdonald Hong Gao Shu Tao Huizhong Shen Yuan Zhao Xinrui Liu Chongguo Tian Yifan Li Hongliang Jia Lulu Lian Xiaoxuan Mao |
| author_facet | Tao Huang Jianmin Ma Shijie Song Zaili Ling Robie W. Macdonald Hong Gao Shu Tao Huizhong Shen Yuan Zhao Xinrui Liu Chongguo Tian Yifan Li Hongliang Jia Lulu Lian Xiaoxuan Mao |
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| description | Abstract The Green Revolution (GR) enhances crop yields significantly that contributes greatly to the social and economic development of many less developed countries. However, the increasing crop yields might rise crop residue biomass burning, leading to adverse environmental and health consequences. We assess the impact of crop residue burning associated with the GR-induced growing crop yields on benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) pollution, a congener of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with strong carcinogenicity. We find a significant increasing trend of BaP emission and contamination from crop residue biomass burning from the mid-1960s to 2010s in India, coinciding with the growing crop yields occurring during the GR. Our results reveal that agricultural BaP emission driven lifetime lung cancer risk (ILCR) in India increased 2.6 times from the onset of GR in the mid-1960s to 2014 and the 57% population in India was exposed to the BaP level higher than the India national standard (1 ng m−3). We show that the reduction of open crop residue burning during the rice and wheat residue burning period would be a very effective measure to reduce BaP environmental contamination and health risk. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-60290fb907794dff9c5ecdd515575f472022-12-22T03:40:04ZengNature Portfolionpj Climate and Atmospheric Science2397-37222022-10-01511910.1038/s41612-022-00306-xHealth and environmental consequences of crop residue burning correlated with increasing crop yields midst India’s Green RevolutionTao Huang0Jianmin Ma1Shijie Song2Zaili Ling3Robie W. Macdonald4Hong Gao5Shu Tao6Huizhong Shen7Yuan Zhao8Xinrui Liu9Chongguo Tian10Yifan Li11Hongliang Jia12Lulu Lian13Xiaoxuan Mao14Key Laboratory for Environmental Pollution Prediction and Control, Gansu Province, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems stems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou UniversityKey Laboratory for Environmental Pollution Prediction and Control, Gansu Province, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems stems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou UniversityKey Laboratory for Environmental Pollution Prediction and Control, Gansu Province, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems stems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou UniversityCollege of Agricultural and Forestry Economics & Management, Lanzhou University of Finance and EconomicsFisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute of Ocean SciencesKey Laboratory for Environmental Pollution Prediction and Control, Gansu Province, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems stems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou UniversityLaboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking UniversitySchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, South University of Science and TechnologyKey Laboratory for Environmental Pollution Prediction and Control, Gansu Province, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems stems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou UniversityLaboratory for Earth Surface Processes, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking UniversityKey Laboratory of Coastal Zone Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of SciencesInternational Joint Research Center for Persistent Toxic Substances, State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of TechnologyCollege of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Dalian Maritime UniversityKey Laboratory for Environmental Pollution Prediction and Control, Gansu Province, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems stems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou UniversityKey Laboratory for Environmental Pollution Prediction and Control, Gansu Province, Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems stems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou UniversityAbstract The Green Revolution (GR) enhances crop yields significantly that contributes greatly to the social and economic development of many less developed countries. However, the increasing crop yields might rise crop residue biomass burning, leading to adverse environmental and health consequences. We assess the impact of crop residue burning associated with the GR-induced growing crop yields on benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) pollution, a congener of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with strong carcinogenicity. We find a significant increasing trend of BaP emission and contamination from crop residue biomass burning from the mid-1960s to 2010s in India, coinciding with the growing crop yields occurring during the GR. Our results reveal that agricultural BaP emission driven lifetime lung cancer risk (ILCR) in India increased 2.6 times from the onset of GR in the mid-1960s to 2014 and the 57% population in India was exposed to the BaP level higher than the India national standard (1 ng m−3). We show that the reduction of open crop residue burning during the rice and wheat residue burning period would be a very effective measure to reduce BaP environmental contamination and health risk.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00306-x |
| spellingShingle | Tao Huang Jianmin Ma Shijie Song Zaili Ling Robie W. Macdonald Hong Gao Shu Tao Huizhong Shen Yuan Zhao Xinrui Liu Chongguo Tian Yifan Li Hongliang Jia Lulu Lian Xiaoxuan Mao Health and environmental consequences of crop residue burning correlated with increasing crop yields midst India’s Green Revolution npj Climate and Atmospheric Science |
| title | Health and environmental consequences of crop residue burning correlated with increasing crop yields midst India’s Green Revolution |
| title_full | Health and environmental consequences of crop residue burning correlated with increasing crop yields midst India’s Green Revolution |
| title_fullStr | Health and environmental consequences of crop residue burning correlated with increasing crop yields midst India’s Green Revolution |
| title_full_unstemmed | Health and environmental consequences of crop residue burning correlated with increasing crop yields midst India’s Green Revolution |
| title_short | Health and environmental consequences of crop residue burning correlated with increasing crop yields midst India’s Green Revolution |
| title_sort | health and environmental consequences of crop residue burning correlated with increasing crop yields midst india s green revolution |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00306-x |
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