Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:09:49 +0000
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s air quality has deteriorated from among the cleanest in the world to one of the most polluted over the past two decades, shaving five years from life expectancy in some regions, researchers say.
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South Korea’s parliament passed emergency measures on Wednesday to tackle the “social disaster” of air pollution.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmolina| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 09:13:38 +0000
That fact that 11 cities in the Philippines made it to a list of 15 top Southeast Asian cities with the cleanest air should be “no cause for celebration,” according to environmental watchdog Greenpeace Philippines.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 09:58:05 +0000
Air pollution around Bangkok is expected to worsen again this week with an increase in the level of PM2.5 dust particles.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:04:47 +0000
areas reporting safe levels of airborne particulates 2.5 microns or less in diameter (PM2.5).The Pollution Control Department (PCD) put the readings between 24 and 46 micrograms of PM2.5 per cubic meter of air at 7am. The safe limit is 50.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 06:41:59 +0000
A fleet of drones, trucks and small planes are spraying water to try to reduce dust around Bangkok.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 09:01:12 +0000
New Delhi recorded one of the highest pollution levels of the year on Sunday with the air quality index touching 450.
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Most EU countries fail to meet the bloc’s air quality standards and more than 1,000 Europeans die prematurely each day, ten times more than in road accidents, a watchdog said Tuesday.
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Read moreRecently released report by WHO on Air Pollution based on the most-recent 2016 data from 4,300 cities in 108 countries says that nine of ten people around the world are exposed to dangerously high levels of pollutants. This leads annually to the early death of an estimated 7 million people.
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