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By Hera Rizwan The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, on Tuesday, released the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) report which stated that air pollution stands as the "most significant external menace to human life expectancy," causing a reduction of the average worldwide lifespan by 2.3 years. According to the report, air pollution causes more than three times the harm of alcohol and more than five times that of car crash injuries. Not a single country in the world fulfilled the World Health Organization's air quality criterion, which is 5 micrograms of pollutants per cubic metr...
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By The Conversation On the morning news, you see the weather forecast is for high heat, and there is an "excessive heat watch" for later in the week. You were hoping the weather would cool down, but yet another heat wave is threatening human health and increasing the chance of wildfires. On top of these warm days and nights, air quality data has been showing unhealthy levels of pollution. Sound familiar? This scenario is increasingly the new normal in many parts of the world. High heat and air pollution are each problematic for human health, particularly for vulnerable populations such as olde...
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By Sana Fazili Two Indian cities — Delhi and Kolkata — have have topped the charts of the world's most polluted cities in the latest report on global air pollution. Mumbai has been ranked 14th according to the report released by the State of Global Air. India, in fact, is home to 18 of the 20 cities with the most severe increase in PM2.5 pollution from 2010 to 2019. The latest State of Global Air Report is part of an initiative on air quality between the Health Effects Insitute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, with inputs from the University of British Columbia. Also Read: ...
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