World's worst air: India's pollution crisis in perspective


  • World
  • Friday, 08 Nov 2019

FILE PHOTO: A girl waits to cross the railway line on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, November 5, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

(Reuters) - Wildfires have raged across California for about a month and air problems persist in China, but no other place on Earth is battling the scale and severity of the pollution that chokes large swathes of north India.

(Click https://tmsnrt.rs/34BzfaO for an animated world map showing the amount of PM 2.5 particulate matter in the air.)

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