Recent Report on World's Most Contaminated Air, reached by Pristina

According to the same report, seven of the ten cities with the world's highest air pollution are found in India.

Until some of China's cities have reportedly seen remarkable improvement in air quality.

The world's most polluted city according to this report by Greenpeace and AirVisual is Gurugram, located on the outskirts of the Indian capital, New Dahli. The average air quality index in this city was 135.8 during the 2018 R.C. three times the level the U.S. Environment Protection Agency considers healthy.

According to the report, air pollution during 2019 will cause some 7 million premature deaths and will have great economic impact.

The most disturbing air pollution problem is in South Asia. 18 of the world's 20 most polluted cities are located in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Climate change “is significantly making the effects of air pollution worse by changing weather conditions and strengthening fires involving forests” the report says.

The latest report finds that out of the three thousand cities that have been included in the report, 64 have exceeded the normal values set forth by the World Health Organization.

Polluted air contains chemicals such as sulphats, nitrates, and black carbon, which cause lung and heart disease. They may even cause cancer.

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What's going on with air pollution in Pristina?

During the winter months, Pristina had often led the world's highest air pollution list of countries.

For several months this had become a disturbing phenomenon, since the value of air pollution was often alarming.

Measures were made by the Centre for measuring the air quality set by the American Embassy in Pristina.

For air pollution, Pristina had often exceeded the highest level of pollution, such as India, Pakistan and China.

This situation had alarmed institutions and citizens, where they had even held a protest in the square.

During the first winter months, the National Institute of Public Health had suggested that Kosovars take to the city in masks, due to health complications that could appear because of high pollution.

Institutions had taken short-term measures for air pollution problem.

The flow of cars in some areas of the capital was initially banned, but because of the toll caused, this decision had been cancelled.. / P ERISCOPIA