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Ludhiana, Kanpur among world's top 10 cities with worst air pollution

New Delhi: Some of the world's largest and most densely populated cities have air that is so polluted that people suffer from lung diseases at rates that are significantly above global averages. Birth defects in

3. Sanandaj, Iran

 

Another Iranian city that is suffering from both dust storms and heavy industrialization, the air pollution here is 254ug/m3. However, the Iranians are keen to shift the blame onto the American forces in neighboring Iraq, who have destroyed the agriculture there and so have caused the dust storms.

 

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