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India admits Delhi matches Beijing for air pollution threaten public health

2014-05-08 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: India's state air monitoring centre has admitted that pollution in Delhi is comparable to that of Beijing, but disputed a World Health Organisation (WHO) finding that the Indian capital had the dirtiest atmosphere in the world. A study of 1,600 cities across 91 countries released on Wednesday by the WHO showed Delhi had the world's highest annual average concentration of small airborne particles (known as PM2.5) of 153. These extremely fine particles of less than 2.5 micrometres in diameter...

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