Find out the most polluted cities in the world in 2023. Check out which city in the world had the highest level of air pollution PM2.5. Download the IQAir AirVisual world air quality report.
2019. India has received the dreadful distinction of having seven of its cities in the list of top 10 most polluted cities in the world, according to data compiled in the IQAir AirVisual 2018 World Air Quality Report on Tuesday. (Xinhua/ Tumpa Mondal) ...
We've ranked the cities here, from least to most polluted. 50. Linfen, China Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images Twelve years ago, Linfen was themost polluted city in the world, but even then, Beijing was making efforts to curb the city's coal-burning addiction. Nearly 200 coal-fired boilers...
Find out the most polluted countries in the world in 2023. Check out which country in the world had the highest level of air pollution PM2.5. Download the IQAir AirVisual world air quality report.
an estimated seven million premature deaths every year according to the World Health Organization. The recently releasedIQAir AirVisual 2020 World Air Quality Reportfound that 15 of the world's 20worst-pollutedcities are inIndia, though the worst affected city on the planet is actually in China....
Smothered by increasingly toxic air, India is moving to the forefront of a global push to use more of cleaner natural gas in vehicles. The country's state-run gas companies are charting ambitious plans to extend the use of natural gas to trucks and scooters, and build infrastructure for ...
India’s Kolkata, Vietnam’s Hanoi and Myanmar’s Yangon occupied the second, third and fourth spots in the list, with AQI scores of 163, 161 and 160, respectively. The AQI, an index for reporting daily air quality, informs people how clean or polluted the air of a certain city ...
In this graphic, we map the world’s most polluted countries according toIQAir, ranked by their annual average PM2.5 concentration (μg/m³) in 2023. The unit μg/m³ refers to micrograms per cubic meter. What is PM2.5? PM2.5 refers to fine particulate matter, with a diameter of ...
Field measurements and remote sensing data collected by The Nature Conservancy India on water quality at Lake Sembakkam revealed that the lake is highly polluted with incoming wastewater. In addition, results showed that the quality of the lake water does not meet the drinking water criteria nor ...
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