Tag Archives: Pakistan

Top 20 most polluted cities in the world

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

Air quality in most cities that monitor their pollution levels exceed what the World Health Organization deems as safe. Delhi has the highest level of the airborne particulate matter, PM2.5 considered most harmful to health, with 153 micrograms. Not far … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Air Quality, Asia, Australia & Oceania, China, Europe, India, Japan, Latin America, London, Middle East, UK, USA & Canada, World News | Tagged Air Pollution, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, Delhi, India, Pakistan, Patna, PM2.5, World Heath Organization (WHO) | Leave a comment

India admits Delhi matches Beijing for air pollution threatening public health

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

India’s state air monitoring centre has admitted that pollution in Delhi is comparable to that of Beijing, but disputed a World Health Organisation (WHO) finding that the Indian capital had the dirtiest atmosphere in the world. A study of 1,600 … Continue reading →

Posted in Air Quality, Asia, India | Tagged Air Pollution, Delhi, Gwalior, India, Karachi, Pakistan, Patna, PM2.5, Raipur, World Heath Organization (WHO) | Leave a comment

Pollution killing many in Balochistan capital

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

Stakeholders were not playing their due role to reduce air pollution that was making a large number of people suffer respiratory and skin diseases in Quetta. This was said by experts who were talking to APP, here on Wednesday. Dr … Continue reading →

Posted in Air Quality, Asia | Tagged Air Pollution, Balochistan, Pakistan, Quetta | Leave a comment

Worst air pollution in the world: Beijing, Delhi, Ahwaz, and Ulaanbaatar

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

I wake up and suck a bowl of charred asbestos through a dirty bong. Well, that’s what it feels like most winter mornings when I open the door of the fourth-floor New Delhi apartment that I currently call home. Fog-drenched … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Air Quality, Asia, China, India, Iran, Middle East, USA & Canada, World News | Tagged Ahvaz, Air Pollution, Bakersfield, Beijing, Botswana, California, Central Valley, China, Delhi, Health Effects of Air Pollution, Iran, Mongolia, New Delhi, Nitrogen Oxide NO, Ozone O3, Pakistan, PM10, San Francisco, Ulaanbaatar, USA, World Heath Organization (WHO) | Leave a comment

Beijing is not the only Asian city with lethal air pollution

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

Air pollution in Beijing has been described as “apocalyptic” this week with people choking their way through murky streets, short of breath and their eyes stinging from toxic air. But Beijing is just one of hundreds of cities, largely in … Continue reading →

Posted in Air Quality, Asia, China, Iran | Tagged Afghanistan, Air Pollution, Bangladesh, Beijing, China, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Shanghai, Tehran, World Heath Organization (WHO) | Leave a comment

Pollution watch: Air quality monitors still out of order

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Respro® UK Ltd

Three monitoring sites installed by the EPA in Lahore are still not functioning. Leaving them unable to read air quality levels and measure dangerous pollution levels. Pollution watch: Air quality monitors still out of order – The Express Tribune.