Air pollution levels in RVCE-Mailasandra shot up from 84.7µg/m³ in 2022 to 99.3µg/m³ in 2024, while PM10 levels consistently stood above 75µg/m³ at the City Railway Station and Kasturi Nagar.

In 2021, 8.1 million deaths worldwide could be attributed to air pollution, IQAir said. Exposure to concentrated micrograms of an air pollutant caused about 58% of those deaths, IQAir said.

Manish Swarup/Associated Press BENGALURU, India (AP) — Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found.

Ahamad said much more needs to be done to cut air pollution levels. The WHO had earlier found that 99% of the world’s population lives in places that do not meet recommended air quality levels.

Researchers from University College London and King's College London published a study in The Lancet Healthy Longevity that identified the ages of 45 to 69 as a critical window during which air ...

Air pollution is a global health concern, with over 90% of the world's population breathing air that exceeds World Health ...

When pollution is bad in Hanoi, “we wear masks so that we don’t breathe the air. It’ll make you sick,” said Vu Thi Hong, 61, a fruit seller in Old Town.

California and Oregon are among the U.S. hotspots for dangerous submicron (PM1) air pollution—those with particles less than a micron, or a millionth of a meter wide—according to new research.

The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report for 2024 listed the Los Angeles area as one of the top 10 cities polluted by year-round particle pollution.

The World Health Organization estimates that outdoor and indoor air pollution combined cause 6.7 million premature deaths a year, with most of those deaths occurring in low- and middle-income ...

US embassies and consulates in Lima, Peru, Sao Paulo and Bogota have had the public air monitoring. “It was a source of access to air quality information independent of local monitoring networks.