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Environment

How Chiang Mai became the world’s most polluted city

April is the peak of the pollution in northern Thailand with Chiang Mai shrouded in a toxic haze [Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP]

Weenarin Lulitanonda is passionate about clean air.

“The air people are breathing in northern Thailand is cutting their life short by three, four years. It causes cancers, mental health issues, other problems. And almost no one is taking up the cause, there is so much passivity,” she told Al Jazeera.

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