Published 1 year ago

Less than 1% of Earth has safe levels of air pollution, study finds

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A new study on global daily levels of air pollution shows that hardly anywhere on Earth is safe from unhealthy air. About 99.82% of the global land area is exposed to levels of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) — tiny particles in the air that scientists have linked to lung cancer and heart disease — above the safety limit recommended by the World Health Organization, according to the peer-reviewed study published on Monday in Lancet Planetary Health.

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Times of India

Nearly everyone globally exposed to unhealthy levels of tiny air pollutants: Lancet study

While the daily PM2.5 levels have reduced in Europe and North America in the two decades to 2019, levels have increased in South Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and the Caribbean, with more than 70 per cent of days globally seeing levels above what is safe.

1 year ago·India

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The Hindu

Nearly everyone globally exposed to unhealthy levels of tiny air pollutants

The daily PM2.5 levels have reduced in Europe and North America in the two decades to 2019

1 year ago·India

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The Washington Post

Nearly everyone is exposed to unhealthy levels of tiny air pollutants, study says

“Almost no one is safe from air pollution,” Yuming Guo, the lead author of the study, told The Washington Post.

1 year ago

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The Hill

99 percent of global population exposed to unhealthy levels of tiny air pollutants: study

Nearly the entire global population is exposed to very fine air and harmful air pollutants that can be harmful to health, a new study found. The study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal, found that about 99 percent of the global population is exposed to these tiny and harmful air pollutants, which are known…

1 year ago·Washington, United States

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