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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Fritz Pinnow in Tegucigalpa

Honduran city’s air pollution is almost 50 times higher than WHO guidelines

Aerial shot of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, covered in a thick blanket of smog.
San Pedro Sula, the second-largest city in Honduras, covered in a thick blanket of smog. Photograph: Fritz Pinnow

The air quality in San Pedro Sula, the second-largest city in Honduras, as been classified as the most polluted on the American continent due to forest fires and weather conditions aggravated by El Niño and the climate crisis.

IQAir, a Swiss air-quality organisation that draws data from more than 30,000 monitoring stations around the world, said on Thursday that air quality in the city of about 1 million people has reached “dangerous” levels.

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