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Hope and disparity: a colorful new way to visualize air quality around the world
See how how air pollution has changed over 170 years.
This kind of pollution — which might include dust, soot, and smoke — comes from smokestacks, tailpipes, and increasingly from wildfires made worse by climate change. Cities in low and middle-income countries in parts of South Asia and Africa are particularly hard-hit, the Air Quality Stripes researchers find. The images resemble climate warming stripes that have become a popular way to show temperatures rising as a result of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.
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