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With the improvements made to the IPE website and thus China Pollution Map Database, over the last two years the number of official government-sourced violation records, from all regions in China, added to the China Pollution Map Database, has grown by over 40,000, each having its own particular circumstances and need for a prompt and effective ...
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.
Map of PM2.5 pollution over China from April to August 2014. Air pollution is a major public health issue in China. Over the past three decades, the rapid development of China has resulted in excessive emissions of greenhouse gases. Among the 337 cities, more than 40 percent of the major air pollutant concentrations exceeded Chinese standards. [29]
China reversed a five-year trend of declining levels of pollution, the report found. Chinese cities used to dominate global rankings of the world’s worst air quality but a raft of clean air ...
The World Bank estimates that 16 of the world's most-polluted cities are located in China. [40] Coastal pollution is widespread, leading to declines in habitat quality and increasing harmful algal blooms. [41] The largest algal bloom recorded in history occurred in China around the southern Yellow Sea in 2008, and was easily observed from space ...
Air pollution can affect nearly every organ and system of the body, negatively affecting nature and humans alike. Air pollution is a particularly big problem in emerging and developing countries, where global environmental standards often cannot be met. The data in this list refers only to outdoor air quality and not indoor air quality, which ...
Below is a list of 526 cities sorted by their annual mean concentration of PM2.5 (μg/m 3) in 2022. [1] [2] By default the least polluted cities which have fewest particulates in the air come first. Click on the arrows next to the table's headers to have the most polluted cities ranked first. Please note that constraints exist in this type of ...
Orkin, the pest control specialists, ranked the top 20 cities with the worst mosquito problems based on the amount of customers serviced last year. For the second year in a row, Hot-lanta is in ...