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September 25, 2023
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January 9, 2024
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December 24, 2023
Mapped: Life Expectancy Gains From Breathing Cleaner Air
Former AQLI Research Associate Aarsh Batra visualizes a map of life expectancy gains if all people around the world breathed cleaner air.
In the News
December 13, 2023
via Nature
How high-impact papers from Indian researchers are shaping science
The University of Chicago’s Air Quality Life Index ranks India as the second-most-polluted nation in the world in terms of air quality, behind only Bangladesh, and refers to Delhi as “the most polluted city in the world”.
In the News
December 13, 2023
via China Dialogue
New air pollution control plan released
Between 2013 and 2021, China’s air pollution levels fell 42.3%, according to this year’s Air Quality Life Index from the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute.
In the News
December 6, 2023
via NPR
Can anything stop the toxic smog of New Delhi?
It's hard to viscerally understand and connect that someone's illness is caused by, or exacerbated by, pollution. I think that's made it very, very difficult to develop policy and enforce policies to get rid of it," says Christa Hasenkopf, Director of Clean Air Programs at EPIC.
In the News
December 6, 2023
via HRW
Pakistan’s Air Pollution Shortens Lives
According to the Air Quality Life Index, air pollution in Pakistan shortens average life expectancy by 3.9 years.
In the News
December 6, 2023
via BNN Bloomberg
How China Cleaned Its Filthy Air While India Continues to Choke
Air pollution declined 42.3% between 2013 and 2021, according to EPIC.
In the News
November 27, 2023
via NPR
New Delhi’s deadly smog stirs political turmoil
Christa Hasenkopf is from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. She says the worst impacts are from the tiny particles in smog. CHRISTA HASENKOPF: You breathe them in. They go into not just your lungs, but they can go into your bloodstream and all over your body and act as a toxin. So it causes strokes and heart attacks. It can cause even things like cognitive decline and certainly issues with fertility.
In the News
November 27, 2023
via CNN
‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi?
In the decade since, China has seen its air quality improve dramatically. The country’s pollution levels in 2021 had fallen 42% from 2013, according to a report from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, which praised its “staggering success in combating pollution.”
In the News
November 14, 2023
via China Dialogue