Health

It is known that people suffering from conditions such as heart disease tend to suffer during spikes in air pollution, but new research shows that for those people, cardiac inflammation levels actually rise during particularly bad air quality episodes.

A toxic cocktail of particulate matter’ both locally-generated and blown in from crop burning in India, has made Lahore the most polluted city in the world, with a PM2.5 concentration of 249µg/m³, 49.8 times higher than the WHO annual air quality guideline value.