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Monday, December 14, 2020

Cleaner Air = Longer Lives


You tin purpose this interactive map to uncovering out how many extra years you lot could aspect to alive if your province met the World Health Organization's recommended prophylactic levels of air quality. The Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago's Air Quality-Life Index map shows how many life years could endure saved inwards countries to a greater extent than or less the footing if they met WHO standards for prophylactic levels of airborne particulate thing pollution.

The darker the color on the map as well as thus the to a greater extent than years could endure saved. In other words the darkest areas convey the worst records of air pollution. You tin genuinely sentiment particulate pollution concentrations on the map past times switching to the 'Pollution' layer.


Air pollution causes ane inwards 8 deaths worldwide. The World Health Organization's ain interactive map, Global Ambient Air Pollution, besides shows the levels of pollution across the globe. The map displays the average annual atmospheric particulate thing levels throughout close of the world. The information used is from the WHO Global Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database, which covers 3000 cities inwards 103 dissimilar countries.

The Global Ambient Air Pollution map helps highlight the fact that air pollution close effects those living inwards depression as well as catch income countries. However 56% of cities inwards high-income countries besides don't run into the WHO air character guidelines. Even inwards high-income countries urban air pollution levels tend to endure higher inwards depression as well as middle-income cities as well as inwards the poorest neighborhoods of high-income cities.