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India and Chad: Where the air is missing to breathe!
The air quality in India remains worryingly high; An IQAIR report documents significant fine dust loads worldwide.
India and Chad: Where the air is missing to breathe!
The dramatic air quality in India and other countries reaches alarming values! The latest report by iQair shows that the fine dust pollution in India is ten times higher than the limit values recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). In no other country in the world, the PM2.5 values are as worrying as in the Chad, where 91.8 micrograms of fine dust per cubic meter were already measured in 2024. While India recorded a decline of seven percent compared to the previous year, air pollution remains catastrophic and one of the main culprit are road traffic, farm slop as well as waste and industrial emissions, such as Vienna.at reported.
The terrifying reality is that six of the nine is the most dirty cities in the world in India, especially Byrnihat. Bangladesh and Pakistan follow in the negative ranking, while only seven countries worldwide adhere to the WHO air quality standards: Australia, New Zealand, Estonia, Iceland as well as the Caribbean states of Bahamas, Grenada and Barbados. A total of 83 percent of cities on the globe exceed the recommended air quality values, warned IQAIR in another report that created more than 40,000 measurement stations worldwide using measurement data. It should be noted here that air pollution in 2021 caused around 8.1 million premature deaths, as the World Health Organization states, and despite a global decline, the air quality remains catastrophic, how ZDF reported.
Air pollution: a global threat
The educational deficiencies in data collection are far -reaching, especially in Africa, where there is only one measuring station per 3.7 million inhabitants. The inequality in the measurements means that many regions that are affected by extreme air pollution are hardly captured. Experts warn that the ongoing pollution not only leads to respiratory diseases, but also increases the risk of Alzheimer's and cancer. Air pollution and climate change are closely connected and must be combated together to improve the quality of life globally.