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Dr Maria Neira

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Director, Environment, climate change and health. WHO

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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Do we need any more proof that air pollution is a major public health crisis? @who.int @CCACoalition @cleanairfund.bsky.social #breathelife @EU_Commission @cleanairasia @london.gov.uk @annehidalgo.bsky.social
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
When a champion of green #urban policies meet a #cleanair leader. Exciting webinar ahead! 🗓️ July 25, 4:30-5:30pm (CEST) ➕ Details & registrations: www.who.int/news-room/ev... ❓Live Q&A with Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social & @drmarianeira.bsky.social to follow the dialogue 🗣️ in English & French
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A spotlight on Paris - a dialogue with Mayor Anne Hidalgo on promoting health, clean air, and climate resilience
The session will draw key insights from the transformative urban agenda of Mayor Anne Hidalgo, highlighting how cities can empower citizens, reduce health inequalities, and build healthier environment...
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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
@drmarianeira.bsky.social ‬is one of our new Honorary Fellows! Dr Neira is a distinguished public health physician, diplomat, and international civil servant and the Director of the @who.int Department of Public Health, Environment and Social Determinants of Health. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZSZ...
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Dr. María Neira - FPH Honorary Fellowship acceptance speech
YouTube video by UK Faculty of Public Health
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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
@drmarianeira.bsky.social is one of our new Honorary Fellows!   This is the highest category of FPH membership, awarded to those who have made exceptional contributions towards improving the health of the public.   Congratulations to all new FPH Honorary Fellows: www.fph.org.uk/news/faculty...
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GISMAU @gismau.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Los dermatólogos advierten del impacto que el cambio climático tiene en la salud de la piel. El incremento de temperaturas, la baja humedad y la contaminación pueden generar o agravar dolencias cutáneas. efeverde.com/dermatologos...
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Los dermatólogos advierten del impacto que el cambio climático tiene en la salud de la piel - EFEverde
La presidenta de la Academia Española de Dermatología, Yolanda Gilaberte, advierte del impacto del cambio climático en la salud de la piel
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Ashis Basu @ashis.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Air pollution is a global health crisis, driving NCDs and claiming lives. In @aparnabose.bsky.social ‘s interview with @WHO’s @drmarianeira.bsky.social we discuss clean energy transitions, household pollution, environmental risks in children, and grassroots action. youtu.be/XnN8eB_Z3IA?si…
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Urge India to align AQI standards with WHO norms: WHO Director
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GENeva Environment Network @genevaenvironmentnetwork.org · 14/04/2025
Highlighting the opportunities for health that enhanced urban climate action offers, @drmarianeira.bsky.social of @who.int stresses the main climate transformations that will benefit health include: 🔹 Sustainable food systems 🔹 Clean & renewable sources of energy 🔹 Healthy urban planning
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Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum @diarmidcl.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Some people are easily pleased 😊.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 27/03/2025
We can't buy clean air, so let's fight for it! @who.int’s Executive Board agreed to halve the number of deaths caused by #AirPollution by 2040 - let's help to make it a reality. #BreatheLife
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Nina Renshaw @nina-ren.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🇪🇸 Secretary of Health Javier Padilla on delivering #CleanAir for health & #ClimateAction: « People don’t change just because we’ve put the fear into them. We need to show them a future, a vision » #BreatheLife #CleanAir4Health2025 @who.int @drmarianeira.bsky.social @saludporderecho.bsky.social
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 27/03/2025
Hello, @bsky.app friends! DYK: Blue Sky = Cleaner Air = Healthier lungs? I'm joining you today, to ask for your help in supporting @who.int efforts to help everyone #BreatheLife!
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
⚠️Great panel for "Transitioning away from #fossilfuels and the role of clean and efficient energy to protect #health" 👐Join us if you are in Cartagena attending WHO Second Global Conference on #AirPollution and Health: web.cvent.com/event/61ed4b...
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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WHO 2nd Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health: Pre-conference Recap
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
El mundo buscará soluciones para mejorar la calidad del aire en una cumbre en Colombia www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2025032...
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El mundo buscará soluciones para mejorar la calidad del aire en una cumbre en Colombia
Cartagena (Colombia), 24 mar (EFE).- Ministros de Salud, autoridades ambientales y académicos de todo el mundo debatirán a partir de este martes en la ciudad colombiana d...
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Nina Renshaw @nina-ren.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
WHO‘s @drmarianeira.bsky.social clear and inspiring call to action: #AirPollution Kills. The world has made significant progress in recent years but nowhere near enough. No excuses now for inaction. This global conference must result in real change for #CleanAir. 👏👏👏
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Nina Renshaw @nina-ren.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
How #AirPollution has dramatically shifted who is affected by cancer. Please take a moment to let this sink in. Who better to bring this message than doctors? Including irrepressible Dr Arvind Kumar from Drs for Clean Air & Lung Care Foundation. #CleanAir4Health2025 @drmarianeira.bsky.social
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Nina Renshaw @nina-ren.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
WHO @drmarianeira.bsky.social accepts the Health Sector Call to Action on #AirPollution to save lives, signed by organizations representing 47 million health professionals and patients: www.who.int/news/item/17... Proud that @cleanairfund.bsky.social is also supporting this vital call.
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Clean Air Fund @cleanairfund.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The @who.int 2nd Global Conference on #AirPollution & #Health brings renewed focus to the devastating public health impacts of dirty air. A display of images from @climatevisuals.bsky.social ‘visualising air pollution’ collection helps to bring their stories to life for delegates ▶️ bit.ly/41ZGgSi
Istu Prayogi (58) watches skyscrapers with x-rays of his health condition in his hand. Every morning he coughs and spits out ripples of thick blood, affected by the air pollution. Jakarta, Indonesia.

Credit: Aji Styawan / Climate VisualsMaria Nkosi demonstrates how she uses an inhaler a few times a week for her asthma at her home which is a street away from a mine in Clever, Witbank, Emalahleni, South Africa.

Credit: Gulshan Khan / Climate VisualsLiz Godfrey walks her children to school through busy traffic, on 24th January 2024 in Didsbury, Manchester, England. 

Credit: Mary Turner / Climate VisualsLifa Mnisi (29) explains his medication in his home in the Vosman area in Witbank, Emalahleni, South Africa, on November 29, 2023. Lifa was diagnosed with bronchitis and asthma in 2007 after many trips to the doctor and misdiagnoses.

Credit: Gulshan Khan / Climate Visuals
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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌ @parentsforfuture.de · 23/03/2025
All Children have the right to clean air! #OurKidsAir Air pollution threatens the health of children globally. Over 90% of the world’s children breathe toxic air every day. 1/🧵 @who.int @drmarianeira.bsky.social @diarmidcl.bsky.social @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social @rodzicedlaklimatu.bsky.social
Parents with protest signs #OurKidsAir
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Do we need any more proof that air pollution is a major public health crisis? @who.int @CCACoalition @cleanairfund.bsky.social #breathelife @EU_Commission @cleanairasia @london.gov.uk @annehidalgo.bsky.social
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I fully agree Peter, never shy when it is about putting public health. My point is that health connect everything and is the most powerfully aegument. Air pollution is linked to health, to climate change, to sustainable societies, to equity, to economy, to urban planning…
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EFEsalud @efesalud.com · 12/03/2025
📢 "¿Sería posible otra #pandemia?", reflexión de María Neira (@drmarianeira.bsky.social), directora de Medio Ambiente y Salud de la #OMS.  @who.int    📝 Artículo para el especial "Pandemia de covid, 5 años después" de #EFEsalud  🔗 efesalud.com/covid-19-pandemia-mari…
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Happy that the Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health, taking place in Cartagena, Colombia on 25 March, will give us the opportunity to learn more from the London ULEZ experience! @tedrosgbelay.bsky.social @who.int @london.gov.uk rb.gy/wmnfek
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It’s not every day you get an award with an astronaut, a political scientist, a legend in dance, champions of education and democracy, a brilliant thinker, and a writer with an exquisite narrative. Great honor to be one of the 8! 🙏to the Fundacion Ortega-Marañon @fortegamaranon
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EFEsalud @efesalud.com · 06/03/2025
"¿Sería posible otra #pandemia?", reflexión de María Neira (@drmarianeira.bsky.social), directora de M.Ambiente y Salud de la #OMS (@who.int) 📝 Artículo para el especial "Pandemia de covid, 5 años después" de #EFEsalud  🔗 efesalud.com/covid-19-pandemia-mari…
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Salud sin Daño @saludsindanio.org · 25/02/2025
🏥🌎 ¿Cuál es el vínculo entre clima y #salud? En este video, importantes voces abordan la temática y marcan el rumbo hacia la #COP30 de #Brasil 🗣️Participan @drmarianeira.bsky.social @who.int / Ethel Maciel @minsaude.bsky.social / A. Rodrigues (Hospital Albert Einstein) youtu.be/4HyZ8nrE8dg
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De Bakú a Belém: impulsando el debate sobre clima y salud
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Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum @diarmidcl.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Health action on climate change means protection from extreme weather and infectious disease, health facilities with reliable & clean energy and water, breathing clean air, healthy diets… No surprise that most countries, and most people, support it. healthpolicy-watch.news/strong-suppo...
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Strong Support Among WHO Member States For Health-Focused Action On Climate Change - Health Policy Watch
Bolstered by strong support in Africa, Europe and Latin America, there are high hopes that an ambitious new Global Action Plan on Climate Change and Health
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Thanks for the opportunity to @WHO to present at the Human Rights Council about the impact of plastics on the right to health.
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Global Health Centre (GHC) @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
⌛️Last chance to register!! Join us together with @who.int & @gchalliance.bsky.social this Thursday 20 Feb. at 12:30 CET, in person at @gvagrad.bsky.social or online, to discuss #climateaction and #health! REGISTER HERE 👉 bit.ly/C-Hevent25 @drmarianeira.bsky.social @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Treasures you find when visiting your parents’ house: ♥️ My books from my first year of medical school. The same passion for healing, for preventing, still intact!
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Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum @diarmidcl.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Our @drmarianeira.bsky.social "galardonada " (much better word than "awarded") prize for her outstanding contribution to health at the highest level internationally. We know she’s great, and appreciate when others notice. Chapeau boss! 👏 @who.int www.redaccionmedica.com/secciones/sa...
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María Neira, de la OMS, galardonada en los VIII Premios Sanitarias
Es directora del Departamento de Medio Ambiente, Cambio Climático y Salud de la Organización Mundial de la Salud
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Health community calls for urgent action for clean air ahead of of the Second @WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health in March 2025 in Colombia 🇨🇴. Stop air pollution and save lives! www.who.int/news/item/27...
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Health community calls for urgent action for clean air ahead of WHO conference
“Leaders must make bold commitments, while the health community must continue advocating to protect our future. Join the call to action – your signature will help drive the change needed to protect pu...
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Monica Bettencourt-Dias @monicabettencourt.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Great to participate in the 1st national meeting of the Portuguese Council for Health and Environment. Many different professionals together: health, environment, veterinary, food, city councils, universities, hospitals, pharma. Last talk by Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social @who.int. 🌍🌱
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The proportion of people being diagnosed with lung cancer who have never smoked is increasing, with air pollution an “important factor”, the @World Health Organization’s cancer agency has said. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Lung cancer diagnoses on the rise among never-smokers worldwide
Research shows need for further studies into air pollution and other causal factors, expert says
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Stéphane Mandard @stephanemandard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Asthme, cancer du poumon, AVC, infarctus, diabète... l'énorme fardeau sanitaire de la pollution de l'air a aussi un coût économique astronomique estimé à plus de 16 milliards d'euros par an en France. ⤵️
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Ce que coûte la pollution de l’air en France : de l’asthme au diabète, un double fardeau sanitaire et économique
Dans une étude inédite, Santé publique France estime que l’exposition aux particules fines et au dioxyde d’azote génère chaque année des dizaines de milliers de cas de maladies, pour un coût de plus d...
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The science is as clear as our skies should be. Air pollution is affecting the health of billions of people across the globe. It is responsible for the deaths of at least 7 million people globally every year. These deaths are preventable. www.who.int/teams/enviro...
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Call for clean air action
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Call to action: Stop polluting the air, prevent diseases & save lives. The health community supports @who.int in calling on world leaders and decision makers to ensure a future with clean air for all. Add your voice and sign #CleanAir #BreatheLife www.who.int/teams/enviro...
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Call for clean air action
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Researchers in Scotland have found patterns in health data that suggest that air pollution breathed by children may affect their chances of getting dementia in later life. #breathelife www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How dementia could be linked to air pollution in early life
Scottish researchers find childhood pollution a likely factor, but association with mid-life air quality less clear
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GENeva Environment Network @genevaenvironmentnetwork.org · 19/01/2025
@drmarianeira.bsky.social of @who.int highlights how the GEN facilitates dialogue and creates bridges, enabling exchange and collaboration that is critical in addressing the triple planetary crisis. 🎉 Join the #GEN25 Environment Forum and high-level closing celebration ▶️ buff.ly/3P5g56H
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Urban pollution continues to be a major environmental threat to health in the EU, warns a report published today by the European Court of Auditors (ECA). www.eca.europa.eu/en/news?ref=...
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine how pollutants do their damage, and how much harm they cause. @nature @who www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Air pollution and brain damage: what the science says
Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine how pollutants do their damage, and how much harm they cause.
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
« The challenges of reaching net zero emissions are often discussed, but little attention is given to the gains from living in a low-carbon future. Less fossil-fuel combustion means less air pollution» @drgaryfuller.bsky.social @who.int
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Warmer homes and healthier people: what’s not to like about a low-carbon future?
Challenges of hitting net zero emissions are often discussed, but little focus is given to the gains of living in a low-carbon world
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
cocktail of extreme weather events is turning California’s wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration. @who.int @ccacoalition.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social
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Climate change is a ‘big culprit’ of California fires, say scientists
A cocktail of extreme weather events is turning California’s wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration.
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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Assessing the short-term hematological and pulmonary effects of air pollution: a cross-sectional study in a Turkish urban setting - BMC Public Health
Background Air pollution has become a significant global public health concern, with evidence linking it to various adverse health outcomes, including respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. While nu...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
READ: How can EVERYONE resolve to help improve their city? With #NewYearsEve approaching, heading into what will be an extra challenging year for our cities, re-read my “25 simple #NewYearsResolutions to improve your city” in @fastcompany.com. What would YOU add? www.fastcompany.com/90287193/25-...
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increased risk of hospital admission for mental illness, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind. The research, involving more than 200,000 people in Scotland @who #BreatheLife www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Pollution exposure linked to mental health hospital admissions, says study
Researchers from St Andrews found rise in nitrogen dioxide exposure associated with higher admissions
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
India has tightened restrictions aimed at helping the public cope with pollution twice in 24 hours for New Delhi and its surrounding regions after a deterioration in air quality. @who www.reuters.com/world/india/...
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India tightens curbs as air pollution turns 'severe'
The air quality index reading rose above 400 in Delhi and the city was shrouded in a toxic haze.
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The study highlights that the entire population of India lives in areas where PM2.5 levels exceed @who.int guidelines. Hence 1.4 billion people are exposed year after year to air pollution. #BreatheLife hsph.harvard.edu/environmenta...
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Air Pollution in India linked to millions of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
A new study published today in Lancet Planetary Health found that long-term exposure to air pollution increased deaths by 1.5 million deaths per year in
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Dr Maria Neira @drmarianeira.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A new TEDx talk, this time Athens. Why we need cleaner air. @who.int @cleanair2breathe.bsky.social @cleanairfund.bsky.social @cleanairlondon.bsky.social youtu.be/ayWKGTQ9JK0
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Why we need cleaner air | Maria Neira | TEDxAthens
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