Lahore has once again topped the global ranking of the world’s most polluted major cities, with air quality reaching hazardous levels on Monday, November 9, according to Swiss air quality monitoring platform IQAir. The city recorded an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 590 in the morning, while a separate hourly reading showed pollution levels reaching...
Lahore has once again topped the global ranking of the world’s most polluted major cities, according to air-quality monitoring platform IQAir. On Friday morning, Lahore recorded an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 167, placing it in the “unhealthy” category. Bangladesh’s Dhaka followed with an AQI of 164, while Egypt’s Cairo recorded 158. IQAir reported that...
The air quality in the country’s largest city, Karachi, has reached extremely hazardous levels. Karachi is the third most polluted city in the world, according to the Air Quality Index (AQI). Karachi’s air pollution has been measured at 260 particulate matter meters, according to the AQI. It should be mentioned that according to the Air...
What is AQI? The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a global scale that measures how clean or polluted the air is, ranging from 0 (healthy) to 500 (hazardous). Shockingly, Lahore recently crossed an AQI of 450, placing it among the most polluted cities in the world, even surpassing Delhi and Beijing. According to health experts,...