Jakarta is Southeast Asia's most polluted city and the fifth most polluted capital -- up from 2100th position in 2018, according to the report.
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A damning report by the World Health Organisation this month said India was home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, with Delhi ranked sixth most polluted.
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A damning report by the World Health Organization last month said India was home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, with Delhi ranked sixth most polluted.
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A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in May said India was home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, with Delhi the sixth most polluted.
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A report by the World Health Organisation last month said India was home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, with Delhi ranked the sixth most polluted.
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The ban applies to 28 of China's most polluted cities.
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Unfortunately, Krakow is one of the most polluted European cities.
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It is also one of the world's most polluted cities.
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Chinese cities are among the most polluted in the world.
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The city is one of the world's most polluted capitals.
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Six of the world's ten most polluted cities are in India.
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Delhi has become the world's most polluted mega-city, supplanting Beijing.
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And Delhi is one of the most polluted cities on Earth.
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And Delhi is probably not the most polluted city in India.
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Of the world's 30 most polluted cities, 22 are in India.
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India's most fabled cities are now among the world's most polluted.
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Things appear to be getting better in the most polluted cities, if only marginally, with particulate matter concentrations dropping in the ten most polluted places fractionally since the last set of WHO data was released in 2016.
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The industrial province is one of the most polluted regions in China.
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The city of 100,223 inhabitants is among the most polluted in Europe.
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India is home to 13 of the world's 20 most polluted cities.
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Military sites are some of the most polluted places in the country.
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Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the most polluted area in the United States.
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Delhi was the world's sixth most polluted city, according to the WHO.
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Steven Hirsch's photographs capture unexpected beauty in one of America's most polluted waterways.
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Of the 2132 most polluted cities in the world, nine are in India.
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The pop-up exhibition features five artists from the UK's most polluted cities.
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The trade-in incentive is currently limited to Germany's 15 most polluted cities.
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It was once named the second most-polluted river in the United States.
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Chiang Mai temporarily becomes one of the most polluted cities in the world.
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The Citarum is said to be one of the world's most polluted rivers.
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This was one of the top 2 percent most polluted counties in the country.
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Surrounded by smokestacks, 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted places in America.
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At the most polluted sites even the dust blown from tailings can be dangerous.
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Agra is the planet's eighth-most-polluted city, according to the World Health Organisation.
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Heathrow is already the most polluted area of London outside the centre (see map).
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Overall, 83 Indian cities figured in the list of world's 28 most polluted cities.
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People in some of the world's most polluted cities are turning to bottled air.
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The world's most polluted capital city, New Delhi, has an annual average of 113.5.
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They're now considered to be some of the most polluted areas on the planet.
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Still, Canberra and Melbourne ranked among the top 30 most polluted major cities worldwide.
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Beijing frequently features near the top of the list of China's most polluted cities.
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Welcome to Baoding, China's most polluted city However, the report did note some positive trends.
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It's a city abounding in superlatives: Norilsk is Russia's northernmost, coldest, and most polluted city.
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The big picture: Together, the top ten most polluted cities have over 22.047 million residents.
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It was named the most polluted in the world by the United Nations in 1992.
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Texas also ranks among the US' most polluted states, particularly in terms of ozone pollution.
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Kanpur's chief pollution officer, Kuldeep Misra, rejected the tag of the world's most polluted city.
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It became known as the most polluted lake in America, and its reputation hasn't faltered.
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For example, the most polluted city, Ghaziabad, had an average AQI of 110.2 this year.
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But residents of Lahore, one of the world's most polluted cities, blame their country's government.
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" She added, "Lahore is not at all ranked the most polluted city in the world.
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New Delhi has in the past been ranked the most polluted city in the world.
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These maps show where roadworks are blocking traffic or which street corners are the most polluted.
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He also noted that the WHO's list of most polluted cities should be viewed with caution.
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The World Health Organization reported 10 Indian cities among the world's top 20 most polluted cities.
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Jakarta and Hanoi are the two most polluted cities in Southeast Asia, according to the report.
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By comparison, the highest AQI level recorded Monday in Baoding -- China's most polluted city -- was 298.
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The UAE has the world's highest carbon footprint per capita and the world's most polluted air.
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In 1992 the United Nations identified Mexico City's air as the most polluted on the planet.
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In terms of year-long particle pollution, California has six of the eight most polluted cities.
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India is home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, according to the World Health Organization.
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Delhi was named the most polluted city in the world in 2014 according to the WHO.
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India is home to 15 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world, they said.
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In today's 360 video, visit one of the most polluted neighborhoods in the U.S. • In memoriam.
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The city has acquired a reputation as one of the most polluted settlements in the world.
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Jiangsu's Xuzhou, a big steel production zone, was identified as China's most polluted city in December.
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Hebei is filled with coal-powered steel factories and has the most polluted cities in China.
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Unicef, said last year that Ulan Bator was one of the world's 10 most polluted cities and that the lungs of children in the most polluted areas did not function as well as those of children in rural areas, putting them at risk of chronic respiratory illnesses.
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The World Health Organization said this year India was home to the world's 14 most polluted cities.
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Cleaning the Ganga Cleaning up the world's fifth-most polluted river was never going to be easy.
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In 2014, the World Health Organisation declared India's capital Delhi to be the world's most polluted city.
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This year, WHO revealed that the country was home to half of the world's most polluted cities.
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Measuring Delhi's air against some of the other most polluted cities in the world, however, is difficult.
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They believed that legislators should focus on improving air quality in Southern California's poorest, most polluted neighborhoods.
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To the east of Xi'an, Hebei Province has some of the most polluted cities in the country.
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In 2015 the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection found it to be the country's most polluted city.
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He lives around the corner from Neckartor, long one of the most polluted areas in the country.
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Even in sanctuary cities, black residents continue to be relegated to the most polluted and underserved neighborhoods.
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The World Health Organization said in 2015 that Ahvaz was the most polluted city in the world.
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Four of the incinerators would be in greater Jakarta, already one of the world's most polluted cities.
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We created a tool to allow you to compare the world's most polluted air to your city's.
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Ahvaz, for example, has been described as the world's most polluted city by the World Health Organization.
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Fires from crop burning in India last year helped make Delhi the most polluted city on earth.
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The world's most polluted city New Delhi has been the world's most polluted city for years, according to Greenpeace and AirVisual, which found it had an average air quality index of 135.8 in 2018 -- almost three times the level which the US Environmental Protection Agency regards as healthy.
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Winter is typically the most polluted season in China, as the country burns more coal to power heaters.
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One of the world's most remote places, an uninhabited coral atoll, is also one of its most polluted.
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Rashida Tlaib walk around a zip code that Tlaib refers to as the "most polluted" in the state.
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Delhi is among the world's most polluted cities and environmentalists have urged the government to tackle the problem.
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In the most polluted yard found, a top layer of soil had 45,000 parts per million of lead.
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These are the eight most polluted states in the US, based on the number of people at risk.
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Special mention went to the Gowanus Canal, which has been called the most polluted waterway in the country.
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Earlier this year, the World Health Organization said India was home to the world's 14 most polluted cities.
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China's most polluted city in 2018, according to the Greenpeace/AirVisual report, was Hotan in the far west.
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India is home to 22 of the world's 30 most polluted cities, a list previously dominated by China.
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Of the world's top 20 most polluted cities, as measured by the WHO, all are in developing countries.
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However, the city Anaekwe lives in -- Onitsha in southern Nigeria -- has been labeled the most polluted on Earth.
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THE MATANZA RIVER, known more commonly as the Riachuelo, or little river, is one of the world's most polluted.
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"I think they would be shocked to know that these are actually some of our most polluted national parks."
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In one sample, PCB levels were 50 times higher than in crabs in one of China's most polluted rivers.
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According to the World Health Organisation, India's capital has the most polluted atmosphere of all the world's big cities.
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It said Pittsburgh is the only city in the 25 most polluted that is east of the Mississippi River.
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Earlier this year, the World Health Organization reported 10 Indian cities among the world's top 20 most polluted cities.
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WHO also revealed that 13 of the world's 20 most polluted cities were in India, including several state capitals.
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The smoke from fields combines with pollution from vehicles and industry to make Delhi the world's most-polluted capital.
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The smoke from fields combines with pollution from vehicles and industry to make Delhi the world's most-polluted capital.
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In the late 1960s, the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency declared Chattanooga the most polluted city in the nation.
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According to the World Health Organisation, 13 of the world's 20 most polluted cities, including Delhi, are in india.
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Despite its location outside the continental US, parts of Alaska are also among the most polluted in the country.
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The Ganges is arguably one of the most revered rivers in the world - and one of the most polluted.
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One recent assessment, by the property database Attom Data Solutions, called the neighborhood the most polluted in the nation.
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Christian, could affect how the EPA oversees the cleanup of hundreds of the most polluted sites in the country.
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Of the 10 most polluted cities in the country, eight are in California, according to the American Lung Association.
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The most polluted areas of Australia are cities where pollution from industry and motor vehicle emissions are most concentrated.
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For a time, its residents recall with perverse pride, Veles was the second-most polluted town in the former Yugoslavia.
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Formerly the world's most polluted city, Delhi has partially cleaned up its act but still averages PM2.5 levels of 143.
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Oil bunkers line Nigeria's Niger Delta, the site of frequent oil spills and one of the world's most polluted waterways.
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BMW said it would offer a trade-in incentive of 6,000 euros in the most polluted parts of the country.
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Mrs Clinton laments that poorer areas are often the most polluted—citing, for example, the filthy water in Flint, Michigan.
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He announced his climate action plan Monday in Michigan's most polluted community — a Detroit neighborhood near the Marathon Oil refinery.
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Delhi, home to nearly 19 million people, is among the world's most polluted cities according to the World Health Organization.
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Editorial It is no longer safe to breathe in New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world.
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On many winter days, Lahore competes with India's capital, Delhi, for the unflattering distinction of the world's most polluted city.
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It is the most damaging element of toxic air in China, which has some of the world's most polluted cities.
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"It is very misleading to show Reykjavik as one of the most polluted cities in the world," one reader wrote.
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Humboldt County's Clam Beach, which is fed by two creeks, was named California's most polluted beach by Heal the Bay.
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BMW also said it would offer a trade-in incentive of 6,000 euros in the most polluted parts of the country.
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The state owns the majority of the United States's top 10 most polluted cities, no matter how you slice the data.
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The World Health Organization said in 2014 that New Delhi had the most polluted air among nearly 1,600 cities it studied.
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The World Health Organization said this year India was home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, with Delhi ranked sixth.
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In fact, the lake has the ominous distinction as one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States.
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The smoke from fields combines with urban pollution from vehicles and industry to make New Delhi the world's most-polluted capital.
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Pollution-tracking website AirVisual this week found three South Korean cities and no Chinese cities among the world's 10 most polluted.
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Air problems Besides a problem with plastics, India is also home to some of the most polluted cities in the world.
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Some of the world's most polluted cities include Peshawar, Pakistan; Varanasi, India; Cairo, Egypt's capital; and Al Jubail in Saudi Arabia.
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An astonishing 33 of Europe's 50 most-polluted towns are in Poland, as ranked by the World Health Organisation in 2016.
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The only metro areas on the most-polluted list outside the state are Houston, the New York City region and Phoenix.
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The city of Fairbanks is the most polluted city in the US for both short-term and long-term PM pollution.
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Its air quality, meanwhile, has deteriorated, even by the standards of a country with some of the world's most polluted cities.
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Among the world's most polluted cities Pollution is nothing new to the 18 plus million residents living in the Indian capital.
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To reach these targets, China prohibited new coal-fired power plants in the country's most polluted regions, including the Beijing area.
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BMW also said it would offer a trade-in incentive of 26,000 euros in the most polluted parts of the country.
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South Asia continues to be of particular concern, with 27 of the 30 most polluted cities in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh.
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"I think Melbourne at that time was the most polluted city in the world that day," he told reporters on Sunday.
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The smoke from fields combines with urban pollution from vehicles and industry to make New Delhi the world's most-polluted capital.
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PM2.5 in China's most polluted city of Shijiazhuang stood at an average 70 micrograms last year, down 15.7 percent from 2017.
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The weather, with no wind to blow the pollution away, has aggravated the problem in one of the world's most polluted cities.
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Hebei, regarded as China's most polluted province, said it would learn lessons from last week's smog and draw up more "focused measures".
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New Delhi (CNN Business)Ikea has come up with a plan to help some of the world's most polluted cities breathe easier.
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The smoke from the fields combines with urban pollution from vehicles and industry to make New Delhi the world's most-polluted capital.
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In some of the world's most polluted cities, people apparently will: Sales of bottled air from fresh-smelling places are taking off.
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In 2016, the section of the Ganges flowing past Varanasi is one of the most polluted bodies of water on the planet.
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As a result, the US Environmental Protection Agency says that military facilities make up the majority of the country's most polluted sites.
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The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States, and for decades it was also one of its most polluted.
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While growing up, the actress moved between several cities in India, which contains 22 of the world's 30 most-polluted urban areas.
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India is home to 22 of the top 30 most polluted cities, according to a study in March by Greenpeace and AirVisual.
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The country is home to 22 of the top 30 most polluted cities, according to a recent study by Greenpeace and AirVisual.
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Clogged with decades of garbage, the river, officially the Sentiong, is one of the most polluted of Jakarta's 13 rivers and canals.
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Children whose mothers lived in the most polluted areas were more likely to have high blood pressure between ages 3 and 9.
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Half of all Latinos live in this country's most polluted cities, in neighborhoods where incinerators, power plants, and factories are clustered together.
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Here are the 100 most polluted cities according to the report, starting with Gurugram, a suburb of the Indian capital New Delhi.
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Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad stand as 3rd, 4th and 5th most polluted cities in the country in terms of air quality, Khan said.
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Ripe targets Military facilities account for 900 of the 1300 most polluted sites in the US, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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If implemented, they would be some of the most radical steps so far to tackle air quality in the country's most polluted cities.
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The Air Visual API application, which compiles data from ground sensors worldwide, ranked Belgrade 16th of the world's most polluted cities on Thursday.
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So Theresa May discovered as she arrived on November 6th, into a haze unusually acrid even for the world's most polluted big city.
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The country has 290 of Europe's 22020 most-polluted towns (in terms of PM2.5, or fine dust), according to the World Health Organisation.
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Delhi is a miserable place to be in right now, and it's easily the most polluted city in the world at the moment.
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The assets are based near the city of Norilsk, which has a reputation as one of the most-polluted places in the world.
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Fish from the most polluted sites could withstand concentrations 1,000 times higher than normally harmful levels, according to the paper published in Science.
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"Despite tremendous improvements in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region over the last five years, it still ranks as the most polluted," he added.
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Its vast network of once pristine rivers and lakes are now some of the most polluted among OECD countries, according to some experts.
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Government officials say India's cities - 230 of which are among the 21 most polluted in the world - desperately need the $266.479 billion makeover.
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Transport and Environment named Mallorca the second-most polluted port in Europe in 2017, with cruise ships emitting 28 tons of sulfur oxide.
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Houston, the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and the region around El Paso all made the list of the top 25 most polluted cities.
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Read more: Photos show what daily life is really like inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone, one of the most polluted areas in the world
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Summer temperatures now reach as high as 23800 degrees Fahrenheit, and Ahvaz sits at the very top of WHO's World's Most Polluted Cities.
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Outside of extreme events, the agency administers the cleanup of some of the most polluted sites in the country under the Superfund program.
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Once among the most polluted cities in the country, Pittsburgh today is increasingly rebuilding around greener medical complexes, research universities and tech offices.
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China's cities rank among the most polluted in the world, with Hotan and Kashgar in the top 20 according to an IQAir report.
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The most recent air pollution data from WHO released in March gave India the distinction of having the world's 10 most polluted cities.
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Read more: The world's most polluted cities Just 2% of South Korea's energy sector is currently renewable, the International Energy Agency tells CNN.
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Delhi is already one of the world's most polluted cities thanks to emissions from coal-fired power plants, diesel engines, and industrial factories.
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At 0003 globally on the AirVisual list, Wuhan, in northeastern China, is not among China's most polluted cities, but residents aren't taking any chances.
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"This was one of the dirtiest and most polluted areas of Bogotá," he said, strolling down the corridor in the industrial neighborhood, Puente Aranda.
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The launch of the air purifier comes at a time when Indian cities continue to top among the world's most polluted places to live.
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Recent mornings in the world's most polluted megacity have already seen measures of toxic dust exceed ten times the World Health Organisation's recommended maximum.
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Poland aims to have 1 million electric cars on its roads by 2025 as it seeks to cut emissions in its most polluted towns.
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People accept the need for some green tariff on energy and particularly in Port Talbot, thought to be the most polluted place in Wales.
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New Delhi, which was the most polluted city in terms of PM2.5 levels in 2014, is now ranked 11th, with PM2.5 levels of 122.
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Data from the World Health Organization released in May gave India the unenviable distinction of having nine of the world's 10 most polluted cities.
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Earlier this year, Beijing published an action plan designed to clean up the Bohai Bay, one of the country's busiest and most polluted waterways.
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Delhi has earned the unenviable distinction of becoming the most polluted city on Earth this month, as air quality has reached epically bad proportions.
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The Ohio River was the most polluted in the county for seven years in a row in 2015, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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California had the greatest number of cities — nine — on the list of the 25 cities most polluted by particulate matter in the short-term.
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The area of Illinois around Chicago and Naperville is also among the most polluted in terms of both ozone and year-round PM pollution.
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The river is one of India's most polluted, with untreated sewage and factory waste dumped into its waters as it flows into the capital.
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In Sequoia National Park, the most polluted in the country, unhealthy days surpassed those in Los Angeles in all but two years since 1996.
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In India, the country with the world's most polluted air, even doctors have told people not to wear masks despite the poor air quality.
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The researcher singled out the beach in Kamilo — south of Hawaii's largest island — as one of the most polluted environments witnessed along the trip.
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The World Health Organization's (WHO) latest study on the most polluted places on the planet is out, and it's damning for one country in particular.
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In 153 the Blacksmith Institute, an American NGO, listed Dandora in Kenya, the site of Nairobi's main dump, among the world's 30 most polluted spots.
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And researchers have found that the exacerbated health problems that result from poor air quality takes years off people's lives in the most polluted areas.
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In the graph below, I'm looking only at cities that are registering at above the WHO's recommended 25 µg/m³ in the "most polluted" data.
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On Sunday, the most important U.N. climate conference since Paris opens in Katowice, Poland, in one of the most polluted coal-mining regions in Europe.
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The city is one of the most polluted in the world in winter because of the widespread use of coal for heating and power generation.
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Earlier this year, a scathing MEP report accused firms in Hebei, one of China's most polluted provinces, of routinely evading environmental rules and perpetrating fraud.
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We were there to experience the creek — to get a more personal, human-scaled view of one of the most polluted waterways in the country.
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Anyang in Henan province was again the most polluted city among the 39, with PM2.5 reaching 163 micrograms, up 33 percent from a year earlier.
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With India's cities ranking among the most polluted in the world by the World Health Organization, public concern over toxic air and water is mounting.
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Los Angeles air, among the most polluted in the nation, tends to have a background concentration of benzene between 0.1 and 583 parts per billion.
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"When I was a teenager and went to Lake Erie, it was one of the most polluted bodies of water in the country," he said.
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It said in its government work report published in January that it would "strive to exit from the list of 10 most polluted cities nationwide".
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And data show that air pollution continues to rise in major cities, many of which are among the world's most polluted, according to recent rankings.
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"At a country level, weighted by population, Bangladesh emerges as the most polluted country on average, closely followed by Pakistan and India," the report said.
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A new field guide takes listeners on a walk along one of the country's most polluted waterways, where unexpected nature mingles with relics of industry.
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Toxic air kills seven million people a year worldwide, a United Nations report said this week, and India's cities are among the world's most polluted.
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India is home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, with Delhi the sixth worst, the World Health Organization said in a report this year.
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In many regions, wastewater runoffs from mines are used directly to irrigate farmland and its main river, the Xiang, is one of China's most polluted.
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Canberra's air on New Year's Day was the most polluted in the world partly because of a plume of fire smoke as wide as Europe.
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Today Transport for London proposed plans to eliminate vehicles on Oxford Street, one of the busiest and most polluted boulevards in London, by next year.
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The mayor announced plans Friday for 10 low emission bus zones deploying the "greenest" buses on the capital's most polluted routes to cut nitrogen oxide emissions.
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Neighboring India, meanwhile, now has a far worse problem on its hands, with 22 of the 30 most polluted cities, according to the Greenpeace/AirVisual report.
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The Supreme Court last month ordered an overnight temporary ban on the sale of large diesel cars in New Delhi, among the world's most polluted cities.
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Jakarta is consistently ranked among the top 10 most polluted cities in the world, according to Air Visual, a Swiss-based group that monitors air quality.
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The beauty industry is one of the most polluted industries, so it's important for us to try and limit our waste production as much as possible.
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Delhi is one of the world's most polluted cities and authorities have struggled to reduce the risk to residents each winter when the smog gets worse.
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Jay Inslee: I've witnessed the devastation climate change can cause Earlier this week, I visited southwest Detroit's 48217 zip code - the most polluted area in Michigan.
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A damning report by the World Health Organization this year said India was home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, with Delhi the sixth worst.
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South Korea has joined the ranks of the world's most polluted countries, with air pollution in the first months of this year soaring to record levels.
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When smoke from California's deadliest wildfire blew into downtown Sacramento last November, daylight blurred into dusk and the city's air became among the world's most polluted.
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Anyang in Henan province was once again the most polluted city among the 39, with PM2.5 reaching 163 micrograms, up 33 percent from a year earlier.
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Although no one knows the exact amount of carbon that China emits each year, the country has some of the most polluted air in the world.
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Baoding is in the same province, Hebei, as much of China's coal and steel industry and seven of the other top 10 most-polluted Chinese cities.
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However, 98% of Chinese cities still exceeded WHO guidelines and 47 feature among the top 100 most polluted cities in the 2019 World Air Quality Report.
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Air pollution is a global issue, and India is now home to 22 of the 30 most polluted world cities, according to the Greenpeace/AirVisual report.
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Among the photographer's later subjects were undocumented workers in the United States, street children in Colombia, and coal miners in one of China's most polluted provinces.
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China has the most polluted air in the world according to the World Health Organization, and each year it kills well over a million Chinese nationals.
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Each morning, the wiry man walks a few steps from his makeshift hut and enters the black, sludgy waters of one of India&aposs most polluted rivers.
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Twelve of the world's 15 most polluted cities are in India (see chart), and the country ranks 120th of 122 on the global index of water quality.
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Since "smog" is a synonym for "air pollution" and – as I already mentioned – Krakow is one of the most polluted European cities, I'd say it's very fitting.
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India is also struggling tremendously; the country has the dubious honor of claiming 13 of the 20 slots in the top most-polluted cities in the world.
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Beijing was a pleasant 30, while India's next most polluted city, coal and industry-heavy Chandrapur, recorded levels of 824, according to the World Air Quality Index.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is ignoring hazardous post-hurricane spills at one of Houston's most polluted toxic waste sites — even after the agency's chief surveilled it himself.
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Regulators also accused one air pollution monitoring app of spreading rumors by providing data in December indicating Chengdu was the third most polluted city in the world.
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Six of China's most polluted cities were in Hebei last year, and the province has been trying to develop new mechanisms to encourage them to clean up.
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READ MORE: Welcome to Baoding, China's most polluted city Storm of discussion Beijing, like much of northern China, is struggling to tackle dangerously high levels of smog.
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India is home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, based on the amount of particulate matter under 2.5 micrograms found in every cubic meter of air.
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Having already declared a public health emergency, authorities in the world's most polluted capital ordered schools to close and limited the number of cars on the roads.
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Certain areas of the state also have some of the most polluted air in the country, which has an adverse effect on public health and the environment.
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Water mist cannons, or "anti-smog guns," have been tested in Anand Vihar, an area in northern Delhi that's one of the Indian capital's most polluted regions.
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The Lower Platte's watershed was already classified as the sixth most polluted in the United States, thanks to another Cargill plant, in Schuyler, Nebraska, 30 miles upstream.
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The poultry plant was to be sited in the flood plain of the Lower Platte River, which is already the sixth most polluted in the United States.
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The city ranks as one of Europe's 50 most polluted, and a recent study found that the fouled air is decreasing life spans here by 1.5 years.
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India, which has the world's 14 most polluted cities, has made little effort this year to curb the sale of ear-splitting, firecrackers that explode through Diwali night.
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Every city in the World Health Organization's top 10 most polluted cities is in India, if measured by the smallest and deadliest type of particulate matter air pollution.
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Vehicle emissions account for almost a third of air pollution in India, which has nearly half the world's 20 most polluted cities, according to the World Health Organization.
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A neighboring region known as the Fenwei Plain, home to some of China's most polluted cities, also saw PM2.5 rise 20173% to 83 micrograms over the four months.
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Naomi Hollard was on her way to a climate summit, passing through one of Michigan's most polluted zip codes, 48217, in southwest Detroit, when her throat started burning.
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The city of Gwalior, which is 350 kilometers away from New Delhi, was flagged as the second most polluted city in the world, only short of Iran's Zabol.
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AGRA, India (Reuters) - India's white-marble Taj Mahal is turning yellow and green as the 17th century mausoleum weathers filthy air in the world's eighth-most polluted city.
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According to the World Health Organization, air pollution causes more than 3 million deaths a year and India is among the two most-polluted countries in the world.
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NYC was ranked the tenth most-polluted city in the U.S., according to a recent report by the American Lung Association that focused on data from 2015-2017.
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Last winter, government forced mills and heavy industry in 28 of the most polluted northern cities to shut up to half of their capacity between November and March.
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Of the country's 10 most polluted cities in the first half, six were in the industrial northern province of Hebei, down from seven at the end of 2015.
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This year's State of the Air report from the American Lung Association found that the state had seven of the 10 most polluted metro areas in the country.
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According to a recent WHO analysis, Indian cities are now the most polluted in the world, accounting for 14 of the 20 cities with the worst air pollution.
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For the sake of comparison, Los Angeles is the most polluted city in the United States and only has a mean Air Quality Index value of around 65.
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Owners of millions of older diesel vehicles in Germany's 25.7 most polluted cities should be able to choose between trade-in sweeteners and hardware upgrades for their vehicles.
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On Tuesday, a German court ruled that Stuttgart, one of the country's most polluted cities, can ban diesel cars from driving in downtown areas to improve air quality.
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Bosnian towns, led by the capital Sarajevo, have topped lists of the world's most polluted cities in recent days, along with capitals of neighbouring Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia.
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The town of La Oroya was ranked as one of the 10 most polluted places in the world in a 2007 report by the environmental group the Blacksmith Institute.
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Related: Bacteria-Inspired Art Infects a Chelsea Gallery An Artist Finds the Beauty in Brazil's Most Polluted River Artist Duo Projects Videos on the Banks of the LA River
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"Ulaanbaatar may be the coldest capital in the world but it doesn't need to be the most polluted too," Coralie Gevers, the World Bank's Country Manager for Mongolia, said.
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Walking and cycling even in the most polluted of cities is still better for you than staying indoors, a study from researchers at the University of Cambridge has shown.
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Delhi is one of the world's most polluted cities, with its residents often struggling to breathe in air quality that is worse than in the Chinese capital of Beijing.
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Growing up in a marginalized Los Angeles neighborhood, one of the most polluted cities in America, Patel was diagnosed with heart palpitations stemming from that pollution at age 14.
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The Superfund program, started in 1980, is intended to identify and clean up some of the nation's most polluted sites, which now number more than 1,300 around the country.
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Beijing frequently features near the top of the list of China's most polluted cities as emissions from vehicles and heavy industry combine with weather conditions to raise smog levels.
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Activists in India, home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, had petitioned the court for another ban on fireworks ahead of Diwali, when millions of firecrackers are lit.
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Piotr Wozny, a deputy minister responsible for air quality, blamed former governments for neglecting the problem and announced a pilot program to help 22 of the most polluted towns.
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On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency told CNN it was monitoring nine of the nation's most polluted sites—known as Superfunds—ahead of the sure-to-be historic storm.
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In the current dry season, Jakarta has consistently ranked among the world's most polluted cities, based on data from Air Visual, a Swiss-based group that monitors air quality.
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The heavily industrialised province is one of China's most polluted regions and is estimated to be the source of about a third of the particulate matter drifting over Beijing.
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The tax is another blow for automakers, coming after the Supreme Court temporarily banned the sale of large diesel cars in Delhi, one of the world's most polluted cities.
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Only a handful of the country's 20 most polluted cities have action plans to combat air pollution, despite being asked by the federal government to do so in 22.5.
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A look at 21940 years of attempts to clean up Mexico's most polluted waterway revealed that the country has neither the means nor the laws to preserve its environment.
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A 2016 study by the World Health Organisation ranked Rawalpindi, located near the capital Islamabad, as the second most polluted city of the country after the northwest city of Peshawar.
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"In fact, the amphipods we sampled contained levels of contamination similar to that found in Suruga Bay, one of the most polluted industrial zones of the northwest Pacific," Jamieson added.
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The city of Norilsk, located in Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai, is home to the world's largest heavy metals smelting complex and known to be one of the world's most polluted places.
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But one of the most impressive ideas so far can be found in Milan, Italy — the design capital of the world and one of the most polluted cities in Europe.
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Satellite photos of northern China regularly show a miasma of smog centered on the province, home in 2013 to the six most polluted cities in the country, according to Greenpeace.
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If an expanded CCDI can improve law enforcement in this way, then many business people, as well as those living in China's most polluted places, will welcome the new system.
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AGRA, India, May 22 (Reuters) - India's white-marble Taj Mahal is turning yellow and green as the 17th century mausoleum weathers filthy air in the world's eighth-most polluted city.
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Long associated with Asian capitals such as Beijing or Delhi, hazardous smog has for weeks blanketed Seoul — a city now appearing among the world's three most polluted in daily rankings.
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In 2014, the World Health Organization had announced that Delhi was the most polluted city in the world, and had the highest level of PM 2.5 particles in the world.
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Clean air is a rarity in the world's most polluted city Delhi, where local authorities are trying to curb pollution through desperate measures like traffic restrictions and banning diesel cabs.
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The city, one of China's most polluted, will consolidate 10 local steel firms and invest 38 billion yuan ($5.54 billion) to build the new Tangshan Bohai Steel Project, Xinhua reported.
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According to Colossal, Port Talbot "drew attention earlier this year when a World Health Organization report named it the most polluted community in the UK (the designation was later revoked)."
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India's air pollution has been making headlines for years, with attention focused on Delhi, the capital, once named the most polluted city in the world by the World Health Organization.
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Smog in Delhi -- already ranked as the most polluted city in the world -- worsens at this time of year as temperatures drop and farmers light fires to clear their land.
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Indonesia's Jakarta and Vietnam's Hanoi overtook Beijing for the first time among the world's most polluted capital cities, "in a historic shift reflecting the region's rapid industrialization," the report said.
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Dust and sandstorms in the desert city of Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region, make it the world's second most polluted city in 2019, with an average AQI of 110.1.
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But Italy was still considerably better off than large swathes of Asia, with the Indian capital Delhi, one of the world's most polluted cities, scoring above 300 on the index.
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India is home to the world's 14 most polluted cities, the WHO said, based on the amount of particulate matter under 20163 micrograms found in every cubic meter of air.
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Katowice, the heart of Poland's coal region, is among the most polluted cities in Europe, because many people heat their homes by burning low quality coal, which is the cheapest.
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Ravi Shankar, who enjoys a cult following in India and abroad, has rejected the criticism, saying he should be rewarded for hosting the event beside one of India's most polluted rivers.
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The greater New York City-New Jersey metropolitan area, along with eight cities in California, cracked the top ten of the Lung Association's list for the most polluted cities in America.
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Cities such as Warsaw, Katowice and Krakow have been blighted by smog this winter, often making the top 10 list of most polluted in the world, overtaking Beijing or New Delhi.
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New Delhi ranks among the world's most polluted cities, but in the aftermath of Diwali, a Hindu festival of light, things have gotten worse after people burst crackers over three nights.
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"Despite improvements in some regions, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei remains the most polluted place in the country, while the Shanxi-Shaanxi region saw air quality worsen in recent years," the MEE said.
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In Canterbury, one of the most polluted areas, expectant mothers are told to test tap water to avoid "blue baby syndrome", a potentially fatal ailment thought to be caused by nitrates.
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In December, a top court ordered an overnight temporary ban on the sale of large diesel cars in New Delhi to curb smog in one of the world's most polluted cities.
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To minimize disruptions, companies in Hebei province - normally China's most polluted - have also been placed into four categories, with only those in the lowest class subject to stringent shutdowns this year.
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Some devotees who went by the banks of the Yamuna river to celebrate the festival of Chhath Puja were greeted by one of the most polluted water you will ever see.
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"Some of the particulate counts were comparable to or worse than a bad day in some of the world's most polluted cities like Beijing and Santiago," said Kendra Ulrich of Stand.
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Last year, India accounted for around half of the world's 20173 most polluted cities, according to Swiss firm IQAir, with emissions caused partly by industry, vehicle exhaust and coal-fired plants.
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A report released last month by the Swiss firm IQAir AirVisual said that Beijing was on track this year to drop off the list of the world's 200 most polluted cities.
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" Now, 33 of the 50 most polluted cities and towns in the European Union are in Poland, according to the WHO, earning the country the moniker the "continent's capital of smog.
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Like many Asian megalopolises, which crowd the catalog of the world's most polluted cities, Bangkok suffers from a toxic amalgam: unchecked industrialization and urbanization, a car-crazy populace and lax regulation.
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Last year, India accounted for around half of the world's 20173 most polluted cities, according to Swiss firm IQAir, with emissions caused partly by industry, vehicle exhaust and coal-fired plants.
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World Health Organization figures also show Asia has 25 of the world's 30 most polluted cities in terms of fine particles in the air that pose the greatest risks to human health.
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In addition to water scarcity problems, the Central Valley has some of the most polluted air in the country, partially due to the trucks which travel up and down the 5 Freeway.
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Onitsha -- a city few outside Nigeria will have heard of -- has the undignified honor of being labeled the world's most polluted city for air quality, when measuring small particulate matter concentration (PM250).
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For example, in Nigeria, once home to the most polluted city in the world, local councils created policies on industrial waste removal, and businesses that financed the waste system received tax subsidies.
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The 2144th most polluted city in the world is Delhi, India, which has a population of 21.01 million and where spending one day outdoors is equivalent to smoking 2132 cigarettes, per CNN.
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The air quality levels in Delhi, one of the world's most polluted cities based on World Health Organization data, ranged from "very unhealthy" to "hazardous" on Friday as a steady breeze blew.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Madrid banned most petrol and diesel cars from the heart of the city on Friday as it tries to improve the air quality in one of Europe's most polluted capitals.
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I had spent the day in the homes of mothers, sharing tea and talking about how their children were affected growing up in one of the most polluted cities in the world.
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NEW DELHI — India has nine of the world's 10 most polluted cities, according to one World Health Organization measure, with choking urban smog that researchers estimate killed 2172 million people in 2174.
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Urban centers like Mumbai, Bangalore and Patna are all struggling with filthy air, lending India the distinction of having 15 of the world's 20 most polluted cities, according to a recent study.
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One of the initiatives I'm most proud of is California Senate Bill 535, which takes dollars polluters pay the state of California and reinvests them into the poorest and most polluted communities.
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Among that group in the most polluted areas, the number of COPD cases was four times higher than if a person lived with smokers, and half that of people who had been smokers.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Delhi government plans another round of tough measures to restrict the use of private cars and clean up toxic air in the Indian metropolis, the world's most polluted city.
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Researchers and environmentalists—not to mention cyclists and pedestrians—want to know what's happening at each individual intersection, so they can plan routes and ideally avoid the most polluted parts of the city.
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"Tehran is one of the most polluted cities in the world, and the pollution reaches its peak on the days when there is thermal inversion," Mr. Behzadi wrote in the film's press notes.
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San Francisco, Stockton and Sacramento were the world's three "most polluted cities" in mid-November due to those wildfires, according to Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit that aggregates data from air-quality monitoring sites.
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KANPUR, India (Reuters) - In the world's most polluted city, Kanpur in northern India, the biggest hospital is so overcrowded with patients with respiratory ailments that they are often bedded in the ophthalmology ward.
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Ghaziabad, a satellite city of the capital New Delhi in northern Uttar Pradesh state, is ranked as the world's most polluted city, with an average PM 2.5 concentration measurement of 110.2 in 2019.
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Pakistan's Gujranwala, Faisalabad and Raiwind, are among the ten most polluted cities, and the major population centers of New Delhi, Lahore, and Dhaka rank 5th, 12th and 110.13st respectively, according to AirVisual data.
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New Delhi has been ranked the most polluted city in the world in the past, a label that has frustrated local officials, who see their efforts to tackle pollution undone by neighboring states.
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The alliance, which is not legally binding, aims to have at least 50 members by the next U.N. climate summit in 2018 to be held in Poland's Katowice, one of Europe's most polluted cities.
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The book fixates on a paradox: Calcasieu Parish in Louisiana, where she spends much of her time, is one of the most polluted regions of the country, ravaged by the oil and petrochemical industries.
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Thin, polluted air, scarce sunlight and winters lasting up to 29 months weigh heavily on the average life expectancy in the city, labeled the eighth most polluted in Russia by the government last year.
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Unfortunately, the City of Brotherly Love is home to the polluted Schuylkill River, described as having "a hydro-carbon odor" and ranked as Pennsylvania's third most polluted river by the environmental advocacy group PennEnvironment.
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Heavy industrial Hebei, which surrounds China's capital Beijing, was home to six of the country's 10 most polluted cities last year and has been on the front line of a nationwide "war on pollution".
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Pollution: According to a new report, most of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in South Asia — 15 in India, two in Pakistan and one in Bangladesh — making it a particularly toxic region.
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For each view of the uncensored campaign video, which was shot on one of the most polluted beaches in the world, Pornhub said it would donate an unspecified amount to the Ocean Polymers project.
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" The communities hit by the storm "were already some of the most polluted in our country," Mr. Dobbs said, "and the regulations in place were already insufficient to protect their health and well-being.
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Eighteen of the world's top 22015 most polluted cities are in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh, including the major population centers of Lahore, Delhi and Dhaka, which placed 10th, 11th and 17th respectively last year.
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Wildfires and flooding exacerbated by climate change threaten to unleash contaminants from some of the most polluted sites across the United States, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warned in a report publicly released Monday.
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The report comes as China — historically among the most polluted — has taken enormous steps to clean up its act, even if it's done so by denying heat to the country's poor in the winter months.
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Welcome to China's most polluted city 'APEC blue' In 2014, Internet users coined the wry term "APEC blue" for the capital's clear skies during the two-week gathering of world leaders during the APEC summit.
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The state of Henderson - "the most polluted, most remote island in the whole world" - was indicative of the extent of the problem, and the "absolutely mind-boggling" rate at which plastic was being produced globally.
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With a count of "respirable suspended particulate matter" that is roughly double that of China's notoriously smoggy capital, Beijing, Delhi is ranked by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the world's most polluted big city.
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The program will kick off in the areas around India's capital New Delhi — one of the world's most polluted cities — before being extended to other parts of the country and eventually to Ikea's global markets.
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Pollution: According to a new report, most of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in South Asia — 15 are in India, two in Pakistan and one in Bangladesh — making it a particularly toxic region.
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New Delhi is the world's most polluted capital city, according to several studies, with vehicle and industrial emissions, dust from building sites, and smoke from the burning of rubbish and crop residue in nearby fields.
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The capital, which regularly tops lists of the world's most polluted cities, typically experiences heavy smog during the winter months, as farmers in surrounding states burn stubble to prepare their land for the next crop.
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On January 229, India's capital made an attempt to address its status as the world's most polluted big city, according to the World Health Organization, by implementing a temporary "odd-even scheme" for automobile use.
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On January 213, India's capital made an attempt to address its status as the world's most polluted big city, according to the World Health Organization, by implementing a temporary "odd-even scheme" for automobile use.
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Although Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia has just over one million residents, it has become the most polluted capital city in the world, surpassing Beijing and New Delhi, which both have more than 20 times the number of citizens.
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The green is very visible That's quite refreshing change for Bangkok, which has been named among the world's top 100 most polluted cities, but unfortunately it wasn't the result of some a mass-urban renovation project.
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Since the 1980s, the EPA has also worked with local authorities to clean up some of the most polluted sites in the US, from landfills that caught fire to radioactive waste housed close to residential areas.
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Since 2015, there have been more short-term spikes in particle pollution—in fact, seven of the 25 most polluted cities had their highest number of unhealthy short-term particle pollution days on average ever reported.
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Since the 503s, the EPA has also worked with local authorities to clean up some of the most polluted sites in the US, from landfills that caught fire to radioactive waste housed close to residential areas.
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During her time in India, Pria has spoken about the need to tackle air pollution in the world's most polluted city, drawing upon her experiences from Mexico City, which tackled the same problem through vehicle restrictions.
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But the river's cleansing abilities are limited by the fact that the Ganges is one of the world's most polluted waterways: A billion gallons of raw sewage and industrial waste currently pour into it every day.
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Beijing fell out of the top 100 most-polluted cities in Asia in recent years, with overall pollution levels 2400% lower across Chinese cities between 24 and 2000, according to a report by Greenpeace and AirVisual.
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A 1997 government white paper identified the main culprits (vehicle exhaust and industrial emissions) and outlined urgent actions to avert the smog-choked fate of Mexico City, among the world's most polluted metropolises at the time.
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India's former environment minister himself dismissed what he called a "misleading" W.H.O. report that listed more than 30 Indian cities among the world's 100 most polluted — and rejected another scientific study linking air pollution to mortality.
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Scientists are now cautioning that city smog might be spreading the genetic material that makes viruses untreatable, and at this stage, it's not clear how much damage this could do in the world's most polluted cities.
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China's capital Beijing has more than halved its annual PM 2.5 levels over the past decade and has dropped out of the world's 200 most polluted cities following concerted efforts to get air pollution under control.
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Kanpur, a north Indian city of three million people, is the world's most polluted city, yet it only has one system to monitor air quality, whereas at least five are needed, said another environment ministry official.
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While strict driving limits and pollution monitoring have improved air quality in Mexico City, taking more cars off the road would further cut contamination in what was the world's most polluted city some 25 years ago.
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But a September 2019 San Francisco Chronicle report revealed that the island was so hazardous it was once considered to be labeled as Superfund site, a classification given to the most polluted areas in the US.
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India, the world's third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is home to 14 of the world's most polluted cities, including the capital New Delhi, with its toxic air claiming more than one million lives in 2017.
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The country has tried to clean up the Ganges for decades, including the government's high-profile Ganga Action Plan in the mid-1980s, but it remains one of the five most polluted rivers in the world.
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The city of Xuzhou, a major steel producer in Jiangsu, has appeared regularly on the list of China's most polluted cities in recent months, prompting concerns that smog is shifting south following a crackdown in northern regions.
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On Sunday, almost 195 countries will meet Katowice, Poland - one of the most polluted coal-mining regions in Europe - to agree on the rules for implementing a landmark deal to cut carbon emissions called the Paris Agreement.
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Magnitude of the problem: The study shows that in the northern and eastern parts of the country, which are the most polluted, aerosol pollution is reducing solar electricity generation potential by as much as 35% per day.
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The Indian capital is one of the most polluted cities in the world, although many neighborhoods remain pleasantly leafy, with trees providing shade, and helping air quality by releasing oxygen, while absorbing carbon dioxide, and harmful gases.
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Beijing's readings on concentrations of fine particulates declined by 35 percent; Hebei Province's capital city, Shijiazhuang, cut its concentration by 39 percent; and Baoding, called China's most polluted city in 2015, reduced its concentration by 38 percent.
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Only days before the conference, Poland — Europe's largest consumer of coal, and home to 33 of the 50 most polluted cities in the European Union — announced that it planned to invest in new coal capacity next year.
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That's seen Beijing fall out of the top 100 most-polluted cities in Asia in recent years, with overall pollution levels 10% lower across Chinese cities between 2017 and 2018, according to a report by Greenpeace and AirVisual.
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In recent days, the Bosnian, Macedonian and Kosovar capitals topped the charts of the world's most polluted cities as the smog intensified due to heavy traffic, excessive use of coal, poor spatial planning and solid fuel based heating.
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Back in March, Paris was enveloped in a gray cloud of choking fumes that obscured the Eiffel Tower for hours and briefly earned the French capital the title of the world's most polluted city, beating out even Beijing.
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India, the world's third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and home to 14 of the world's most polluted cities, is aiming for electric vehicles to account for 30% of all passenger vehicle sales in the country by 2030.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 18,000 Chinese officials failed to take any action or performed badly in protecting the environment since 2016, according to a national crackdown that saw Beijing inspectors visit some of the world's most polluted cities.
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"We came to the place that we love the most, Plaza Botero … but which is also the most polluted part of the city of Medellín according to our sensors," Green City's Carlos Cadenas told Agence France Presse (AFP).
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Delhi is one of the world's most polluted cities and a new law enacted on Wednesday in the neighboring state of Haryana allowing development activity on 30,000 hectares (74,000 acres) of protected land has stoked concern among environmentalists.
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New Delhi has been ranked the most polluted city in the world, according to Greenpeace and AirVisual; a report by the two found that seven of the world's 10 cities with the worst air pollution are in India.
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Iraq and Afghanistan are two of the world's most polluted countries, and there are also dust storms, oil-well fires and battlefield explosions to take into account, not to mention the copious quantities of cigarettes that soldiers smoke.
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Lastly, a September 2019 report in the San Francisco Chronicle revealed that the island was so hazardous it was once considered to be labeled a Superfund site, a classification given to the most polluted areas in the US.
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The Ganges absorbs more than a billion gallons of waste each day, three-quarters of it raw sewage and domestic waste and the rest industrial effluent, and is one of the ten most polluted rivers in the world.
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Delhi smog New Delhi has emerged as the focus of the debate within India over air pollution, after it was briefly the most polluted city in the world in 2016 and has consistently struggled to cut smog levels.
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They even caught the attention of the president of Indonesia after they kayaked down the world's most polluted river — the Citarum in Indonesia — and released videos showing the massive amount of plastic floating on the surface of the water.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top court on Tuesday banned the use of petroleum coke, a dirtier alternative to coal, in and around New Delhi in a bid to clean the air in one of the world's most polluted cities.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's top court on Wednesday upheld the ban on use of petroleum coke in and around New Delhi as the country battles to clean the air in its capital, one of the world's most polluted cities.
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The ECJ said that while authorities could choose where to conduct sampling, this needed to include the most polluted areas and concluded that the average measurement from different parts of the city did not show the exposure to pollutants.
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Lahore, once known as the Garden City but now choked with cars, regularly figures on air quality indexes as one of the most polluted cities in the world - and many of the pollutants are also drivers of climate change.
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Create column charts But India overall is still struggling, with the WHO data set showing four other Indian cities — Gwalior, Allahabad, Patna and Raipur — surpassing New Delhi to rank as the world's second, third, fourth and fifth most polluted.
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India has some of the most unhealthy air in the world, but the wake up call came in 2014, when its capital New Delhi was ranked by the World Health Organisation as the most polluted city in the world.
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But the charm evaporates swiftly as the river, often labeled the world's most polluted, descends past crowded zones of factories and homes that dump a pungent stew of garbage, waste and sewage into its 2280-km (190-mile) stretch.
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Climate policy must be designed to remedy deep and often deadly inequities in pollution exposure while ensuring that the most polluted and climate-impacted communities benefit the most from the renewable energy transformation we need to tackle climate change.
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CreditCreditGeorge Georgiou for The New York Times The soupy morning air in one of the world's most polluted cities had all but cleared by the time Saturday morning's outdoor practice ended for the men's basketball team at Ramjas College.
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It is Russia's coldest and most polluted industrial city, and its richest — at least when measured by the value of its vast deposits of palladium, a rare mineral used in cellphones that sells for more than $1,000 an ounce.
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The mural straddles two walls on the garage's corner in Port Talbot, one of the most polluted cities in the U.K. On one side, a boy with his sled looks at the sky with his mouth open to catch snowflakes.
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Under snow for up to nine months of the year and in darkness for more than a month in winter, Norilsk has acquired a reputation as one of the most polluted settlements in the world because of its metals plants.
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That is nearly 24 times a recommended level of 25 micrograms per cubic meter on average over a 24-hour period, set by the World Health Organization, which this year said India was home to the world's 14 most polluted cities.
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Earlier this month, China's top steelmaking city Tangshan in Hebei province ordered steel mills, coke producers and utilities to deepen output curbs for six weeks this summer in order to clear smog in one of the country's most polluted areas.
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New Delhi is no longer the world's most polluted city, but India continues to afflicted by air pollution, being home to four of the 211 cities with the worst air pollution levels, according to new data from the World Health Organisation.
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Urban areas across the country, from Mumbai in the west to Varanasi in the east, are all struggling with filthy air, lending India the distinction of having 15 of the world's 20 most-polluted cities, according to a recent study.
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Divided by income and their ability to fight the toxic air but united in their suffering from it, the 36-year-old mothers are among more than 93 million people trapped and helpless in the world's most polluted capital city.
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At the end of last year, the government launched a two-month probe of the province, one of the country's most polluted regions, and found that firms had engaged in "fraudulent activities" and were flouting orders not to expand industrial capacity.
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Air pollution in New Delhi and surrounding towns reached the worst levels so far this year on Sunday, with authorities in the world's most polluted capital city having already declared a public health emergency and ordered the closure of schools.
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The air quality is so bad that San Francisco, Stockton and Sacramento became the world's three "most polluted cities" on Friday, worse than hot spots in China and India, and firefighters say it probably won't go away any time soon.
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New Delhi ranks among the world's most polluted cities, with air quality usually worsening at this time of year, when smoke from firecrackers celebrating the Hindu festival of lights and crops burnt in nearby states envelops the city of 16 million.
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As if things weren't awful enough, it's also worth a note that because of the massive fires, smoke, smog and debris, three Northern California cities -- San Francisco, Stockton and Sacramento -- have topped the list of the world's most polluted cities.
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Mr. Buchanan coordinates a volunteer water-testing program for the New York City Water Trail Association, an advocacy group, and holds the awards each fall to honor, or really dishonor, the most polluted waterways in and around New York City.
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SHANGHAI, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The major steel-producing city of Tangshan ranked as China's most polluted in July, even after ordering its mills to cut output in the last 10 days of the month, data from the environment ministry showed.
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Belgrade and several other Serbian towns, along with the capitals of neighboring Bosnia, Kosovo and North Macedonia, have been choked by dense smog for days, topping lists of the world's most polluted cities ahead of Delhi, Calcutta, Lahore and Beijing.
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In Detroit, Michigan, a predominantly African American neighborhood called Boynton is situated next to a large oil refinery, which has led to high levels of cancer linked to toxins and has made that ZIP code the most polluted in the state.
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The report found that average concentrations of pollutants fell in Chinese cities by 12% from 2017 to 2018, while the capital Beijing has fallen out of the top 100 most polluted cities following concerted efforts to get air pollution under control.
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More on In Sight: How climate change is affecting life in the Italian Alps What life's like in the world's northernmost naturally inhabited town Some of the world's most polluted cities are in India, and New Delhi is one of them.
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The Sabarmati River, which flows through Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat, was given an elegant tree-shaded esplanade, where residents now walk their dogs and take the evening air; still, it remains one of the most polluted rivers in India.
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NEW DELHI — The 43-year-old Badarpur Thermal Power Station, a coal-burning plant on the edge of what has been called the world's most polluted city, New Delhi, was quietly cleared to resume pumping smoke into the air last week.
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Winding over 220,21 miles to the Bay of Bengal, Ma Ganga — "Mother Ganges"— eventually becomes one of the planet's most polluted rivers, a mélange of urban sewage, animal waste, pesticides, fertilizers, industrial metals and rivulets of ashes from cremated bodies.
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Late last year, Hebei announced that it would set up 18 "no coal zones" in the rural outskirts of Langfang and Baoding, two of China's most polluted cities, forcing more than 1 million rural residents to switch to natural gas, electricity or biomass.
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Under the proposals due to be announced on Wednesday, local authorities would be able to charge levies on the drivers of the diesel vehicles on the most polluted roads from 2020, if air quality does not improve, the Daily Mail newspaper said.
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At the end of last year, the government launched a two-month probe of northern Hebei province, one of the country's most polluted regions, and found that firms had engaged in "fraudulent activities" and were flouting orders not to expand industrial capacity.
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The air quality is so bad that San Francisco, Stockton and Sacramento became the world's three "most polluted cities" on Friday, according to Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit that aggregates data from air-quality monitoring sites, worse than hot spots in China and India.
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India is home to 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world, and, according to Unicef, about 220 million children in South Asia breathe air with at least six times the level of pollution the World Health Organization considers safe.
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India's capital -- which has been ranked the most polluted city in the world -- experienced hazardous levels of pollution on Friday afternoon, shooting up to as high as 743 particles of PM2.5 per cubic meter on the air quality index in some areas.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - New Delhi was the world's most polluted capital city in 2018, two groups monitoring air pollution said on Tuesday in a study of the amount of fine particulate matter known as PM153 in 61 capital cities around the world.
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"To be in a place like Dallas, which has one of the worst pollution rates in the U.S., is kind of a no-brainer," she says (Dallas is the 17th-most polluted city in the U.S., according to the American Lung Association).
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Everything about the intersection of sports and race relations and the Trump presidency is simply toxic, and expecting free speech to flourish where those rivers meet is like suggesting that a Superfund site cleanup begin by planting daffodils in the most polluted stretch.
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On Sunday night's episode, Kourtney, 40, and Kim Kardashian West held a series of meetings to discuss the clean up of the contaminated Santa Susanna Field Laboratory northwest of Los Angeles, known as one of the most polluted areas of the United States.
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The city of Linfen in Shanxi, which has been called the most polluted city on Earth by other media, was identified as having the worst air quality among 169 cities monitored by the MEE in the first nine months of this year, the MEE said.
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I talked with Hochschild by phone in September about her time in Louisiana, what she had learned from spending five years in (what is now) Trump country, and why one of the most polluted places in the country is so averse to environmental policies.
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And per the American Lung Association's latest annual State of the Air, while 11 of the 25 most polluted cities in the US improved their quality under US standards, all 25 "failed to meet the more protective standards established by the World Health Organization."
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In Delhi, which often ranks among the 10 most polluted cities of the world – officials have since January introduced an "odd-even" car scheme where odd number car plates are only allowed to drive on one day and even number car plates the next.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The top Chinese steelmaking city of Tangshan has ordered steel mills, coke producers and utilities to cut output further this summer, according to a document from the city government, the latest step to curb smog in one of the country's most polluted areas.
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Thermal power companies account for 80 percent of all industrial emissions of particulate matter, sulfur and nitrous oxides in India, and their slowness in complying with new standards shows the difficulties India faces in cleaning up its air, among the most polluted in the world.
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In New Delhi - now the most polluted city in the world, according to the Brookings Institute - illegal crop burning in areas near the capital, as well as vehicle exhaust and construction dust are blamed for the smog that descends in cooler weather every year.
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It marked Mr Moon's second major announcement to change the country's power mix after ordering a temporary halt on eight of the country's older coal power plants soon after taking office last month, amid growing health concerns in one of the world's most polluted countries.
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The city's average annual concentration of PM2.5 in a cubic meter of air was 113.5 in 2018, the groups said in their report, more than double the level of Beijing, which averaged 50.9 during the year, making it the eighth most polluted in the world.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will start investing in a new coal mine next year in the south of the country, Deputy Energy Minister Grzegorz Tobiszowski said on Thursday, a few days before U.N. climate talks start there in one of the country's most polluted cities.
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Grzegorz Tobiszowski, Poland's deputy minister of energy, commended President Trump's for his decision as he was signing an agreement on developing a new hard coal-fired power unit in Jaworzno, a city in southern Poland and one of the most polluted regions in Europe.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Only a handful of India's 100 most polluted cities have drawn up plans to combat air pollution despite being asked to do so three years ago, senior government officials said on Wednesday after a damning report by the World Health Organisation.
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WARSAW, Jan 8 (Reuters) - With days to go before the Polish ski season kicks off in earnest, Poland's most popular mountain resort, Zakopane, is choking in smog denser than in India's capital New Delhi, one of the world's most polluted cities, Polish activists said.
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In this city, the most polluted in the world, the cool air also carries a thick cloud of smog along with it and the leafy fall hues are not found on the trees, but rather on the colorful air filter masks donned by Delhites.
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Many of those advocates assert that environmental racism is a major reason black people in Louisiana's factory-laden "Cancer Alley" contract the disease at higher rates, or why the most polluted ZIP code in Michigan is in a southwest pocket of Detroit that is 84 percent black.
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And not only does this save on green miles transporting the stuff in and out of Britain, but also means that Britain would need to make less steel from iron ore, a carbon-intensive process; Port Talbot is one of the most polluted places in the country.
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Gurugram, a suburb of the Indian capital New Delhi, is the world's most polluted city, according to Greenpeace and AirVisual, which found it had an average air quality index of 212 in 22017 -- almost three times the level which the US Environmental Protection Agency regards as healthy.
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The MoonArk will also be transporting DNA from a number of lifeforms, such as the Arctic Tern, as well as a collection of plankton, water samples taken from the most polluted river in India and from Earth's major oceans, wooden Inuit maps of the Greenland coastlines, and more.
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After the City Council approved plans to build the largest warehouse complex in the United States, environmental groups sued, contending that the complex would add nearly 70,000 car and truck trips a day to an area that already had some of the most polluted air in the country.
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Verisk Maplecroft, a risk consultancy, says India has the worst air quality out of a list of 198 countries it measures, and that New Delhi ranks among the world's top 10 most polluted cities with many urban areas around the capital also among those with the worst air quality.
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Compared with teenagers who lived where pollution was lowest, those in the most polluted areas were 27 percent to 72 percent more likely to have psychotic experiences, depending on the type of pollutant; exposure to two pollutants, nitrogen dioxide and nitrogen oxides, accounted for 60 percent of the association.
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The city of Handan in Hebei province, one of the most polluted cities in the north, the Shandong Coke Association and the China Coke Association held a meeting last Wednesday of about 40 small coke producers based in Hebei and Shandong province, according to a source briefed on the gathering.
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Still the Indian city is desperately trying to figure out ways to shed its title of the most polluted city in the world, which range from an app to snitch on polluters to an odd-even scheme that limits the number of cars on the road on a given day.
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Driving Reuben's work is the notion that the countries that will see the most aging in the coming years are the same countries that are going to have the most polluted air — and the same places that have some of the least developed infrastructure for diagnosing and treating brain disease.
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In Bitterfeld, where I was transferring trains from Dessau to Weimar — toward the end of the German Democratic Republic, it was the world's most polluted city — a drunk man seated himself next to me and repeatedly asked me where I came from and why I came, denouncing Angela Merkel's refugee policy.
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Properties in New Delhi, which regularly features among the most polluted cities in the world, hook buyers with the promise of greenery and better air in apartments and clubhouses thanks to oxygen generators, while those in the densely populated financial capital of Mumbai advertise jogging tracks and serene surroundings with green communal spaces.
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Whittled down from the WHO's study of over 22.5,1043 cities in 2104 countries, CNBC takes a look at the 22.5 most polluted cities in the world based on a comparison of the average amount of PM2120 — a particle considered so small that it can enter the lungs and cause serious health problems.
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"Probably some of the worst cities that are the most polluted ones in the world are not included in our list, just because they are so bad that they do not even have a good system of monitoring of air quality, so it's unfair to compare or give a rank," she said.
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The buses, lorries and cabs clogging the central London thoroughfare make it one of the most polluted places in the UK. "I wondered how to protect him," she says, pointing to a study that found children in polluted areas develop stunted lung capacity that is 8 to 10 percent smaller as a result.
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The surge in pollution came shortly after a report by the World Health Organization said that 33 of the European Union's 4003 most polluted cities are in Poland, which relies heavily on its cherished national coal industry and bluntly refuses to invest in renewable energy sources that might supplant coal, known here as black gold.
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The main culprit that turns New Delhi, already one of the 20 most polluted cities in the world, into what Delhi State's chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, called "a gas chamber," is the annual burning of crop stubble by farmers in nearby states who are too poor to clear their fields for replanting by less polluting means.
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Top 10 U.S. Cities Most Polluted by Short-Term Particle Pollution Bakersfield, CaliforniaFresno-Madera, CaliforniaVisalia-Porterville-Hanford, CaliforniaModesto-Merced, CaliforniaFairbanks, AlaskaSalt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UtahLogan, Utah-IdahoSan Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CaliforniaLos Angeles-Long Beach, CaliforniaMissoula, MontanaThe top four cities that have the most dangerous air in the country—Bakersfield, Fresno, Visalia, and Modesto—are all located in California's Central Valley.
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Around 7 percent of the top 1,000 most-polluted cities in the world are in the U.S., which is the first piece of the puzzle: Creating cars that are particularly well-designed for your home market is just common sense — especially if you're an electric car company who inherently has a horse in the race when it comes to making a statement about pollution.
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This year's talks in Katowice, Poland - located in a mining region that is among the most polluted in Europe - are intended to hammer out a rule book to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, which set a sweeping goal of ending the fossil-fuel era this century by spurring a trillion-dollar transition to cleaner energy sources such as solar and wind power.
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I'd been gradually replacing all the chemically coated nonstick cookware in our kitchen for some time anyway, for both health and environmental reasons: The fumes from the chemical coating are so toxic they will kill pet birds (perhaps you've heard of the canary in the coal mine?), and those chemicals have helped to turn my beloved Tennessee River into one of the most polluted waterways in the world.
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More about visiting Egypt from Business Insider's international correspondent: Uber is locked in a battle to fix Egypt's $8 billion traffic problem, and its success could decide which tech giant will dominate the Middle East and Africa I'm convinced Egypt could be the world's greatest tourist destination if it weren't for a troubling pattern A flight on EgyptAir showed me even the most basic flag carrier can be better than American airlines Staying in the shadow of Egypt's iconic pyramids is more surreal than any photos can show I took a 12-hour overnight first-class sleeper train through the heart of Egypt, and it's an experience I won't forget anytime soon I visited what's possibly the world's most polluted city, and realized Americans have no idea how good they have it
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