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Air quality is deteriorating across the world with fewer cities meeting recommended safety levels, according to a new global report.<\/p>\n
Data released by IQAir shows that only 14% of cities complied with guidelines set by the World Health Organization in 2025, down from 17% the previous year.<\/p>\n
The decline has been linked to factors including wildfire smoke and the growing impact of climate change.<\/p>\n
\n The report, which analysed nearly 9…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Air quality is deteriorating across the world with fewer cities meeting recommended safety levels, according to a new global report. Data released by IQAir shows that only 14% of cities complied with guidelines set by the World Health Organization in 2025, down from 17% the previous year. The decline has been linked to factors including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7832,9613,9140,13530,257,10362,4672,5196,254,13841,11259,4686,421],"class_list":["post-228423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-cities","tag-fall","tag-globally","tag-news","tag-pollution","tag-safety","tag-short","tag-south-africa-today","tag-standards","tag-worsens","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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