Though starting out as a humble thesis, this project is being actualized under the organization, Out of Ocean. From the shores of the Koster Islands in Sweden, plastic samples were collected and studied for thei
PM2.5 concentration is currently2.8times the World Health Organization annual PM2.5 guideline value. 2024 AQI⁺ country ranking Which country had the worst air quality in 2024? Worldwide PM2.5 ranking #CountryPopulationAQI⁺ US 1 Chad
Using the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2021 revised fine particulate matter (PM2.5) thresholds, we show that globally, 7.3 billion people are directly exposed to unsafe average annual PM2.5 concentrations, 80 percent of whom live in low- and middle-income countries. Moreover, 716 million...
It is thought that at least eight million pieces of plastic are washed into oceans each day.These items can take hundreds of years to break down.Surfers Against Sewage, an environmental organization in England, organized the project.Hugo Tagholm, head of the organization, said,“We are hoping ...
and the unregulated burning of waste materials. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) report2, the global population faces a severe risk of air pollution, with approximately 99% of people breathing air containing significant pollutant substances that surpass the recommended threshold level...
Focusing on ambient air quality, exceedances of guidance levels set by the World Health Organization (WHO) are evident and linked with an estimated 6.5 million premature deaths globally each year, the majority of which are suffered by urban populations (Landrigan et al., 2018). Transport ...
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Do you live inSapporo?Add data for Sapporo Consider looking into aggregate data we have forPollution in Japan Air pollution data from World Health Organization PM1019 PM2.510 PM10Pollution Level:Low Index Pollution Index:22.84 Pollution Exp Scale:47.02 ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.1 billion people have little or no access to clean water. In many of these regions the water that is used for drinking, cooking, and washing is the same water that is used for dumping sewage and hazardous waste. Most developing countries ...
In 2021, World Health Organization (WHO) tightened the global Air Quality Guidelines (AQG), for both fine particulate matter (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 μm, PM2.5) and inhalable particles (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤ 10 μm, PM10) due to amp...