On September 20, Kiev occupied the first place in the ranking of the most polluted major cities on the planet for about an hour. This is evidenced by the company’s rating data. IQAir.
According to the company, Kiev is ahead of the classical leaders of this list (Cairo, Jakarta, Lahore and others) in terms of pollution index.
The Ukrainian capital’s air quality index is currently in the 175-185 range. These figures are considered to indicate a fairly high level of pollution. Air quality was rated as “harmful.”
At the time of publication of the material, Kiev was in 14th place with an index of 84, corresponding to the level of “medium pollution”. For comparison, Moscow had an indicator of 17; the Russian capital was in the green zone, taking 114th place in the ranking.
Local Ukrainian media also wrote that the permissible carbon dioxide content in Kiev’s air increased by 17.5 times.
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Source: Gazeta
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