China is the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitter but in recent years has waged a campaign against air pollution, particularly in the cities that have fuelled its economic growth, and has ...

All but one of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities last year were in Asia, a new study shows. The majority of these cities – 13 – are in the world’s most populous country, India, where ...

Neighboring Pakistan followed with four of the most polluted cities, with China and Kazakhstan having one each. Data from more than 40,000 air quality monitoring stations across 8,954 locations in ...

HONG KONG — Six out the world’s 10 most polluted cities are in India ... A senior Chinese environmental official said last month that China aimed to effectively eliminate severe air pollution ...

N’Djamena, the capital of Chad in central Africa, was named the city with the worst pollution. The rest are cities in Asian nations, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, China and Kazakhstan, according to the ...