- 21 of the world's 30 cities with the worst air pollution are in India https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/health/most-polluted-cities-india-pakistan-intl-hnk/index.html 15 comments worldnews
- India had 14 out of world’s 20 most polluted cities http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/14-out-of-worlds-20-most-polluted-cities-in-india-who/article23745178.ece 3 comments worldnews
- 14 of world's 15 most polluted cities in India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/14-of-worlds-15-most-polluted-cities-in-india/articleshow/63993356.cms 13 comments india
- 14 out of world’s 20 most polluted cities in India: WHO http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/14-out-of-worlds-20-most-polluted-cities-in-india-who/article23745178.ece 4 comments india
- 13 out of the world's 20 most-polluted cities are in India, according to the World Health Organisation. https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/839002273447436288 3 comments india
- 22 of the top 30 most polluted cities in the world are in India https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/04/health/most-polluted-cities-india-china-intl/index.html 25 comments india
- 22 of the top 30 most polluted cities in the world are in India https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/04/health/most-polluted-cities-india-china-intl/index.html 338 comments worldnews
- India has world’s 14 most polluted cities, says WHO https://www.dawn.com/news/1405332/india-has-worlds-14-most-polluted-cities-says-who 9 comments worldnews
- What It’s Like to Live in the World’s Most Polluted City http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160425-new-delhi-most-polluted-city-matthieu-paley/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_fb20160427news-delhiphotos&utm_campaign=content&sf25101985=1 58 comments india
- 22 of world's 30 most polluted cities are in India, Greenpeace says https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/mar/05/india-home-to-22-of-worlds-30-most-polluted-cities-greenpeace-says 34 comments india
- Delhi no more the most polluted city in the world, says WHO report. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/delhi-no-more-the-most-polluted-city-in-the-world-says-who-report/articleshow/52232427.cms 24 comments india
- Take My Breath Away - Thirteen of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are Indian http://scroll.in/article/693116/thirteen-of-the-20-most-polluted-cities-in-the-world-are-indian 9 comments india
- Due to Wildfires, Northern California now Holds the most Polluted Cities in the World. https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/16/health/san-francisco-wildfires-air-quality-worst-in-world/index.html 8 comments worldnews
- Kanpur Most Polluted; 14 Indian Cities Among Top 15 in The World: WHO [NP] http://www.india.com/news/india/kanpur-the-most-polluted-city-in-the-world-says-who-14-of-indian-cities-among-top-15-3030677/ 9 comments india
- Beijing, one of the most polluted cities of the world, will spend $2.6 billion to curb deadly air pollution. http://www.newsheads.in/world/news/beijing-to-spend-usd-26-billion-this-year-to-fight-deadly-air-pollution/article/2051.html 5 comments politics
- Beijing, one of the most polluted cities of the world, will spend $2.6 billion to curb deadly air pollution. http://www.newsheads.in/world/news/beijing-to-spend-usd-26-billion-this-year-to-fight-deadly-air-pollution/article/2051.html 202 comments worldnews
- India claims 'bias' as Delhi named world's most polluted city http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10817171/india-claims-bias-as-delhi-named-worlds-most-polluted-city.html 5 comments india
- North India, the world’s most-polluted region, faces a conundrum. India accounted for 14 of the 30 worst-polluted cities in the world, according to WHO data on urban pollution released in May http://www.livemint.com/politics/mlhivtqg0k7h0j2z6qnnvi/north-india-the-worlds-mostpolluted-region-faces-a-conun.html 30 comments india
- [p] TIL Half of world’s 20 most polluted cities in India, Delhi in 11th position http://m.hindustantimes.com/delhi/four-out-of-top-five-polluted-cities-are-in-india-delhi-not-among-them/story-gn2htclbesb3bpeyj4my8k.html 16 comments india
- World’s most polluted city will go car-free once a month to improve air quality [NP] http://mashable.com/2015/10/09/polluted-city-car-free 3 comments india
- Lucknow, the most polluted city in the world; three other Indian cities feature on 25 most polluted cities: Survey. http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-lucknow-the-most-polluted-city-in-the-world-three-other-indian-cities-feature-on-25-most-polluted-cities-survey-1893523 4 comments india
- Perspective | Some of the world’s most polluted cities are in India, and New Delhi is one of them. This is what life’s like there. https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/05/10/some-worlds-most-polluted-cities-are-india-new-delhi-is-one-them-this-is-what-lifes-like-there/ 2 comments india
- India tops world in bad air quality: Kanpur, Delhi among 15 worst cities, Mumbai 4th most polluted megacity https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-tops-world-in-bad-air-quality-kanpur-delhi-among-top-15-mumbai-4th-most-polluted-megacity/articleshow/63997130.cms 9 comments worldnews
- Air pollution 'too high' in most of world's cities. The World Health Organization says air pollution in many of the world's cities is breaching its guidelines. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27313349 33 comments worldnews
- India’s millennium city is choking. Gurugram is counted among the worst polluted cities in the world. In 2018, it was declared the worst polluted in an international survey https://india.mongabay.com/2019/10/indias-millennium-city-is-choking/ 22 comments india
- Urban ecology in Boston and beyond. Scientists are exploring how people, buildings, wildlife and pollution interact in the world's cities. http://www.nature.com/news/the-science-of-cities-life-in-the-concrete-jungle-1.11862 3 comments science
- High levels of pollution found in many of the world’s major cities are having negative effects on plants and insects, according to new research published in Nature Communications. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/pollution-impact-insects-plants-ecosystems-damage-environment-1.815355?t=au 4 comments science
- Four of world's biggest cities to ban diesel cars from their centres - Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City will ban the most polluting cars and vans by 2025 to tackle air pollution. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/02/four-of-worlds-biggest-cities-to-ban-diesel-cars-from-their-centres 24 comments worldnews
- Delhi is in fact twice as polluted as the Chinese capital, and among 10 Indian cities in the 'top' 15, according to a report from the World Health Organisation http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/these-are-the-15-most-polluted-cities-in-the-world--wjdghga4fe 3 comments worldnews
- Tens of thousands to run in New Delhi, one of the world's most heavily polluted cities - Reuters https://reut.rs/2mnsv95 9 comments india
- India’s cities make hazy Beijing look like a breath of fresh air: "An international effort to quantify air pollution levels has found that New Delhi’s air is the most polluted in the world, followed by that of three other cities in India’s central Hindi belt." http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/indias-cities-make-hazy-beijing-look-like-a-breath-of-fresh-air/article18575475/ 8 comments worldnews
- In Northern India, a concoction of seven different fungi could help to thin the smog that pervades the capital city with the worst air pollution in the world. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220405-the-fungi-cleaning-new-delhis-air 7 comments futurology
- India should follow China’s example and clean up air in its cities, which are among world’s worst for outdoor pollution, World Health Organization said. The WHO’s database of more than 4,300 cities showed Indian cities such as New Delhi, Varanasi and Patna were among most polluted. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-pollution/through-a-fog-of-data-air-of-indian-cities-looks-dirtiest-iduskbn1i24h6 16 comments worldnews
- India launches air quality index to warn over dangerous pollution events - Index will track eight major pollutants, after World Health Organisation said New Delhi was world’s most-polluted city http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/17/india-launches-air-quality-index-to-warn-over-dangerous-pollution-events 3 comments india
- India launches air quality index to warn over dangerous pollution events: Index will track eight major pollutants, after World Health Organisation said New Delhi was world’s most-polluted city http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/17/india-launches-air-quality-index-to-warn-over-dangerous-pollution-events 35 comments worldnews
- Reducing air pollution to World Health Organisation recommended levels would prevent more than 50,000 deaths a year across European cities. 84% and 9% of the population across all cities were exposed to PM and NO2 levels above the WHO guidelines, respectively. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/piis2542-5196(20)30272-2/fulltext 23 comments science
- Toxic air in Bangladesh claimed 88,000 lives in 2019. Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka was ranked as the second most polluted city in the world from 2018 to 2021, with rising breathing difficulties, cough, lower respiratory tract infections, as well as depression and other health conditions. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/toxic-air-in-bangladesh-claimed-88-000-lives-in-2019-says-world-bank/2755231 2 comments environment
- Local authorities in Siberia have declared a state of emergency after 20,000 liters of diesel fuel seeped into a river. The World Wildlife Fund praised efforts to contain the spill with a floating dam, blocking dangerous pollutants from flowing into a lake near the Arctic city of Norilsk https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/06/02/massive-thermal-plant-fuel-leak-pollutes-siberian-river-a70457 4 comments worldnews
- Toxic metallic air pollution nanoparticles are getting inside the crucial, energy-producing structures within the hearts of people living in polluted cities, causing cardiac stress. The study underlines the need for governments across the world to tackle ultrafine particulate pollution https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/lu-tap070320.php 68 comments science
- Supreme Court has asked why battery and solar energy-run vehicles were not being manufactured in the country on a large scale to replace petrol/diesel-run cars with air pollution rising to dangerous levels in India which is home to twenty of the world's most polluted cities. https://timesofindia.com/india/sc-why-not-use-battery-run-vehicles-to-curb-pollution/articleshow/61696870.cms 71 comments worldnews