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Live readings for Lahore showed that the city’s fine particulate air pollution, or PM2.5 concentration, was over 100 times the World Health Organisation’s annual air quality guideline ...
Air quality slipped drastically this week in Punjab’s largest city Lahore, which has seen the Air Quality Index (AQI) reading of major pollutant PM2.5 breaching the 1,500-mark on Thursday.
The air pollution generated in November 2024 in India and Pakistan was regarded by climate researchers as an unprecedented intensification of the region's annual pollution cycle. [2] NASA satellite imaging showed a continuous cloud of smog that extended across the majority of eastern and northern Pakistan, as well as northwestern India. [3] [4]
Lahore ordered all primary schools to close for a week in response to soaring pollution levels, as the toxic smog enveloping the Pakistani city continued to pose severe health risks.. Lahore held ...
Air quality in Islamabad has seen intermittent declines, with pollution levels reaching unhealthy levels. Harmful air pollution PM2.5, which comes from engine combustion, industrial emissions, burning of garbage or combustible materials, and dust blown by speeding cars on uncemented patches of road, ranks high. The level is recorded.
Karachi's air quality index (AQI) has risen to an unhealthy level of 193, making it the fourth most polluted city in the world. [2] The city's AQI is often among the highest globally, indicating severe levels of air pollution. [3] Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) plays a major role in air pollution in Karachi.
Pakistan remained one of the world's three smoggiest countries in 2023, as Bangladesh and India replaced Chad and Iran, with particulate matter about 15 times the level recommended by the World ...
5 special squads have been formed to fight smog, Metropolitan Corporation Lahore, Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa), police, district administration and Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) [11] [12] Lahore jumped more than 10 places to become the city with the worst air in the world in 2021, according to an annual global survey by a Swiss ...