most polluted city in the world according to world health organization
Zabol
title: Zabol text: wind" ("bād-e sad-o-bist-roz"), a highly persistent dust storm in the summer which blows from north to south. The disappearance in the 2000s of the nearby Hamoun wetlands has exacerbated the dusty conditions in Zabol, leading the World Health Organization to name Zabol the most polluted city in the world in 2016. A 2017 study in the journal "Preventive Medicine" suggested that the harm from 30 minutes of cycling outdoors in Zabol's polluted air would outweigh the benefits of the exercise. Zabol has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification "BWh"). Zabol Zâbol (, also transliterated as Zābul) is a city title: Delhi text: in July and August. The average date of the advent of monsoon winds in Delhi is 29 June. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Delhi was the most polluted city in the world in 2014. In 2016 WHO downgraded Delhi to eleventh-worst in the urban air quality database. According to one estimate, air pollution causes the death of about 10,500 people in Delhi every year. Air quality index of Delhi is generally Moderate (101-200) level between January to September, and then it drastically deteriorates to Very Poor (301-400), Severe(401-500) or even Hazardous(500+) levels in three months between October to title: New Delhi text: highest temperature ever recorded is on 28 June 1883 while the lowest temperature ever recorded is on 11 January 1967, both of which are recorded at Indira Gandhi International Airport (formerly known as Palam Airport). The average annual rainfall is , most of which is during the monsoons in July and August. In Mercer's 2015 annual quality-of-living survey, New Delhi ranks at number 154 out of 230 cities due to bad air quality and pollution. The World Health Organization ranked New Delhi as the world's worst polluted city in 2014 among about 1,600 cities the organisation tracked around the world. title: Air pollution in India text: early deaths occurred from air pollution-related diseases in 2010. According to a WHO study, 13 of the 20 most-polluted cities in the world are in India; however, the accuracy and methodology of the WHO study was questioned by the Government of India. Over a million Indians die prematurely every year due to air pollution, according to the non-profit Health Effects Institute. Over two million children -- half the children in Delhi -- have abnormalities in their lung function, according to the Delhi Heart and Lung Institute. With the last 15 years of economic development and regulatory reforms, India has made title: 2013 Northeastern China smog text: Chinese cities is of increasing concern to China's leadership. Particulates in the air can adversely affect human health and also have impacts on climate and precipitation. Pollution from the burning of coal has reduced life expectancies by 5.5 years in the north of China, as a result of heart and lung diseases. According to the National Environmental Analysis released by Tsinghua University and The Asian Development Bank in January 2013, 7 of 10 most air polluted cities in the world are located in China, including Taiyuan, Beijing, Urumqi, Lanzhou, Chongqing, Jinan and Shijiazhuang. As air pollution in China is at