This city of almost 300,000 people, 80 miles north of Zambia's capital of Lusaka, was identified by a 2022 U.N. report as a "sacrifice zone" — one of the most polluted places on the planet. Between ...

Guangzhou, a major city in China, has topped the list of cities with the worst air pollution. Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s ...

According to the 2024 World Air Quality Report by equipment manufacturer IQAir, New Delhi fares much worse than the capitals of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal.

A small city on the Meghalaya-Assam border, nearly 2,000 kilometres away from Delhi, is the most polluted in the world, according to a report published by a global pollution watchdog. Swiss air ...

The Nepali capital, Kathmandu, has an area of 413.69 square kilometres and has become a hotspot of air pollution in the recent decade. According to the 2022 census data, it has a population density of ...

According to real-time pollution data, Kathmandu became the most polluted city in the world on Monday. In the afternoon, ...

India's cities are already ranked among the world's most polluted, based on concentrations of fine particulate matter in the air. Now new research indicates they are battling rising levels of another ...

This city of almost 300,000 people, 80 miles north of Zambia's capital of Lusaka, was identified by a 2022 U.N. report as a "sacrifice zone" — one of the most polluted places on the planet.