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Air pollution is among the biggest health problems of modern industrial society and is responsible for more than 10 percent of all deaths worldwide (nearly 4.5 million premature deaths in 2019), according to The Lancet. Air pollution can affect nearly every organ and system of the body, negatively affecting nature and humans alike.
This list contains the top 500 cities by PM2.5 annual mean concentration measurement as documented by the World Health Organization covering the period from 2010 to 2022. The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries.
All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is ...
The Air Pollution Index, which rates the likelihood of people getting ill from breathing a city's air, has recently reached 500, the highest possible level, for multiple parts of Hong Kong.
The world's worst short-term civilian pollution crisis was the 1984 ... The United Kingdom suffered its worst air pollution event when the 4 December Great Smog ...
When New York's pollution levels briefly came down yesterday, NYC and Detroit were on the second and third spot. ... New York City 'worst polluted city' in the world as air quality plummets.
Thailand faces persistent air pollution stemming from agricultural burning, industrial emissions, and transportation. [3] Thailand's national standards for PM2.5 air quality were revised in 2022 and 2023, to adopt the World Health Organization (WHO) Interim Target 3 (IT-3) of 37.5 μg/m 3 and 15 μg/m 3 for 24 hour and annual measures, respectively.
Here are key regional takeaways from IQAir’s 2023 World Air Quality Report. Asia is the world’s most polluted region. All but one of the 100 cities with the most polluted air in the world are ...