"The magnitude of the danger air pollution poses is enormous," said Anthony Lake, Unicef's executive director.
Air pollution poses a significant problem, especially in the winter months, when thermal inversions impede the westward flow of air from the Indian Ocean.
"The magnitude of the danger air pollution poses is enormous," said Anthony Lake, executive director of UN children's agency, Unicef, which calculates that 300 million children now live in areas with highly toxic levels of outdoor air pollution.
In February, Chinese video sites posted a privately funded documentary, titled "Under the Dome," in which Chai Jing, a former state-television reporter, described her growing alarm at the risks that air pollution poses to her infant daughter.
Last week a quietly scathing report by the inspector general of the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed what some have long suspected: in the aftermath of the World Trade Center's collapse, the agency systematically misled New Yorkers about the risks the resulting air pollution posed to their health.
Air pollution poses a dire risk to Iranians today.
Without continuous air quality monitoring, it is impossible to understand how large a risk air pollution poses in Africa.
These can be used to quantify the risks that air pollution poses to human health, agriculture, ecosystems and infrastructure.
Perhaps one of the most disconcerting aspects of this data is the fact that until very recently, experts have significantly underestimated the risks that air pollution poses on health, particularly for the extreme poor.
Particulate matter (PM) air pollution poses a formidable public health threat to the city of Beijing.
Thus, air pollution poses a genetic risk for humans, which may link to predisposition of diseases including cancer.
