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Scientists suggest that air pollution may also trigger inflammation in the brain, disrupt serotonin levels and interfere with stress response pathways.
As the IQAir live city pollution ranking was released on Friday, Joburg came in at 26th (out of 100) cities on the worst air quality ranking, with an AQI of 72.
Deep wafts of wildfire smoke in Canada have been drifting around the region, swallowing whole cities in a thick, yellow haze like something from an apocalypse movie.
The quality of Jo’burg’s air came under the microscope this week, after the city of gold erupted in pockets of 24-carat stench.
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A nine-year-old girl in the UK is thought to be the first person in the world to have air pollution listed as a cause of death by a coroner.
Air pollution has been dubbed “the new tobacco”, and wind conditions carry the polluted air west to Johannesburg and Pretoria.
London looked similar to Beijing this week, covered in a haze of pollution. The air quality was deem to have deteriorated to 10 on a 10-point-scale that measures air pollution. Here are some photos from 3 April, showing the scale of the pollution.
In the world’s biggest economies Johannesburg rates as the 7th most polluted air. The title of most polluted city goes not to Beijing as most would imagine, but the city ofLudhiana in India.