{"id":4065,"date":"2021-11-18T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2021-11-18T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T13:00:32","slug":"punjab-capital-lahore-tops-global-air-quality-pollution-ranking-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-capital-lahore-tops-global-air-quality-pollution-ranking-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Capital Lahore tops global air quality &#038; pollution ranking again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Punjab Capital Lahore once again has topped the air quality and pollution ranking index in the world on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In what should be seen as a worrying sign for Pakistanis, Karachi also features on the same global index at number eight.<\/p>\n<p>As per the air quality index, the particulate matter level in Lahore has surged to 367, while in Karachi, it has climbed to 163.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s capital New Delhi is placed number two on the list as its particular matter score was recorded at 259. China&#8217;s Wuhan features on number three, with a 198 level particulate matter score.<\/p>\n<p>The air quality index says a particulate matter level that lies between 151-200 is considered harmful for health, while a pollution level between 201-300 is considered extremely harmful for health.<\/p>\n<p>Any pollution level exceeding more than 301 is recognised as &#8220;dangerous pollution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/multi-billion-cpec-project-to-place-karachi-among-worlds-top-port-cities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Multi-billion CPEC project to \u2018place Karachi among World\u2019s top port cities\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Punjab Capital Lahore once again has topped the air quality and pollution ranking index in the world on Thursday. In what should be seen as a worrying sign for Pakistanis, Karachi also features on the same global index at number eight. As per the air quality index, the particulate matter level in Lahore has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[527,2672,2670,2669,306],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-cpec","tag-cpec-project","tag-pollution-ranking-index","tag-punjab-capital-lahore","tag-karachi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}