{"id":9011,"date":"2021-08-04T16:09:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/?p=9011"},"modified":"2021-08-05T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T07:36:39","slug":"a-european-city-air-quality-viewer-allows-you-to-check-long-term-air-pollution-levels-where-you-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/news\/a-european-city-air-quality-viewer-allows-you-to-check-long-term-air-pollution-levels-where-you-live\/","title":{"rendered":"A European city air quality viewer allows you to check long term air pollution levels where you live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> EEA<\/a>\u2019s <strong>new city air quality viewer<\/strong>, cities are ranked from the cleanest city to the most polluted, on the basis of average levels of fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, over the past two calendar years.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 323 cities included in the viewer, air quality in 127 cities is categorised as good, meaning that it falls below the health-based guideline for long-term exposure to PM2.5 of 10 micrograms per cubic meter of air (10 \u03bcg\/m3) established by the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>While there has been a <strong>marked improvement in Europe&#8217;s air quality over the past decade<\/strong>, the EEA\u2019s latest annual air quality assessment found that exposure to fine particulate mater caused about <strong>417,000 premature deaths<\/strong> in 41 European countries in <strong>2018<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While air quality has improved markedly over the past years, <strong>air pollution remains stubbornly high<\/strong> in many cities across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>This city air quality viewer a<strong>llows citizens to see for themselves<\/strong> in an easy-to-use way how their city is doing compared to others on air pollution. It provides concrete and local information which can empower citizens towards their local authorities to address the issues.<\/p>\n<p>To see the map and for more information see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/highlights\/new-european-city-air-quality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New European city air quality viewer allows you to check long term air pollution levels where you live<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"European city air quality viewer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y9n_Bnzkotg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the EEA\u2019s new city air quality viewer, cities are ranked from the cleanest city to the most polluted, on the basis of average levels of fine particulate matter, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-9011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-air"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9016,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9011\/revisions\/9016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.naturachevale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}