2024 Indo-Pakistani smog - Wikipedia
3 days ago · The 2024 Indo-Pakistani smog is a severe, record-breaking air pollution event that affected Eastern and Northern Pakistan and North India in November 2024, primarily in the Pakistani city of Lahore and Indian city of Delhi.The smog resulted in the overwhelming of the Pakistani healthcare system due to respiratory disease and throat and eye irritations, leading to widespread school closures and ...
Lahore Air Quality Index (AQI) and Pakistan Air Pollution | IQAir
In November 2019, during the heart of Pakistan’s “smog season”, Lahore regularly came second only to Delhi – and sometimes overtook the Indian city – as the world’s most polluted city on IQAir AirVisual’s live rankings of major global cities.
Pakistani province declares health emergency due to smog and …
18 hours ago · 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 Aurangzeb, declared the health emergency ...
Pakistan Cities Declare Health Emergency as Smog Blankets Region
12 hours ago · Women walk along a street engulfed in smog in Lahore on Nov, 14, 2024. Air quality index (AQI) readings in Lahore have exceeded 600, significantly surpassing the hazardous threshold of 300.
Pakistan's smog is visible from space. This activist is ... - NPR
2 days ago · A thick, toxic smog has shut down life in Pakistan's second largest city, Lahore, home to more than 14 million residents. Schools, offices and public spaces are closed.. That came after a senior ...
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 ...
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
Satellite images from the US space agency Nasa shows both the thick layer of smog and the multiple concentrations of fire in the region between the Indian capital, Delhi, and Pakistan’s Lahore.
Thick smog shuts down Pakistan’s Lahore, sickens tens of thousands
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.
Lahore smog: Pollution hits record levels in Pakistan city
Nov 9, 2024 · 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.