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Smoke signals
One of India’s most pressing environmental issues is air quality. A global report from air monitoring firm IQAir, published last week, found that a stunning 83 of the 100 worst polluted cities in the world are in India, with Delhi named as the most polluted capital city having averaged a PM2.5 of 102.1 µg/m3 in 2023.
While Bangladesh and Pakistan were named as the most and second-most polluted nations overall, India was third, with an annualized average concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) measuring 54.4 µg/m3 last year — more than 10x the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m3.
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