While climate change is often regarded as the primary environmental consequence of industrialization, air pollution is an ...

According to the 2023 Air Quality Life Index, pollution claims up to 25,000 lives annually in Delhi alone, shortening life ...

As this map reveals, 91 per cent of all countries had unsafe levels of air pollution in 2024. Chad, Congo, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India had the dirtiest air.

If so, then when pollution wanes, and the expansion of irrigation slows, that will change. Dirty air kills millions of people in the region each year; cleaning it up is imperative.

Ambient air pollution poses a global threat to human health, with a disproportionate burden of its detrimental effects falling on those residing in low and middle-income countries. Referred to as ...

Over 100 “AirKeepers” who host monitors on their houses across the state contribute air quality data to the map. “We're concentrating on communities that are overburdened by these polluting ...

In India, much of the population breathes air that is 10 times more polluted than what the World Health Organization considers safe. In a study released April 15 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, ...