World’s Worst Air Pollution in Lahore Reaches New Record
1 day ago · Pakistan’s smog situation has gone from bad to worse as air pollution rose to a record in Lahore. Sensors tracked by the Swiss monitor IQAir recorded an air quality index of 1,300 in the country ...
Pakistan Cities Declare Health Emergency as Smog Blankets Region
10 hours ago · Air quality index (AQI) readings in Lahore have exceeded 600, significantly surpassing the hazardous threshold of 300. Women walk along a street engulfed in smog in Lahore on Nov, 14, 2024.
Pakistan declares health emergency, flags lockdown measures as …
1 day ago · Pakistan has been battling severe air pollution and toxic smog since October, with Lahore currently ranking as the world's most polluted city. Pakistan's province of Punjab has declared a health ...
Pakistani province declares health emergency ... - Associated Press News
17 hours ago · Updated 4:11 AM PST, November 15, 2024. LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani province declared a health emergency Friday due to smog and imposed a shutdown in two major cities. Smog has choked Punjab for weeks, sickening nearly 2 million people and shrouding vast swathes of the province in a toxic haze. A senior provincial minister, Marriyum ...
Lahore smog: Pollution hits record levels in Pakistan city - BBC
Lahore and its 13 million residents have now been choking for a week; the air quality index has passed the 1,000 mark repeatedly this month - anything above 300 is considered hazardous.
Toxic smog in Pakistan is so bad you can see it from space
4 days ago · NASA Worldview/CNN. Though major South Asian cities suffer with poisonous smog each year, officials in Pakistan’s second biggest city Lahore have characterized this season as unprecedented. On ...
Lahore smog: Pollution hits record levels in Pakistan city - BBC News
Nov 9, 2024 · The WHO guidelines say the average concentration of PM2.5 level should be below five. Abid Omar, founder of Pakistan’s Air Quality Initiative, which collects data from 143 air quality monitors ...
Schools to close as air pollution hits record high in Pakistan’s Lahore …
Nov 3, 2024 · Pakistan’s second-largest city of Lahore will close primary schools for a week after seeing “unprecedented” pollution levels, government authorities have said.
Schools close in Lahore as pollution hits record level - BBC News
Nov 3, 2024 · Unprecedented air pollution in the Pakistani city of Lahore has forced authorities to close all primary schools for a week. From Monday, 50% of office workers will also work from home, as part of ...
Thick smog shuts down Pakistan’s Lahore, sickens tens of …
Nov 9, 2023 · A wave of thick, toxic fog has enveloped Pakistan’s Lahore city, causing tens of thousands of people to fall ill in one of the world’s most polluted countries.