From 2005 to 2018, a global team of scientists used space-based measurements from instruments onboard NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) satellites to try to fill data gaps in air quality for 46 prospective megacities in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Exposure to air pollution has been linked to 100,000 excess premature deaths in the Indian cities of Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Surat, Pune and Ahmedabad between 2005 and 2018, according to a study.
A study directed by scientists at University College London (UCL) and the University of Birmingham has exposed that approximately 180,000 avoidable fatalities spanning 14 years in rapidly expanding tropical cities were caused by a swift increase in emerging air pollution,