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Hope and disparity: a colorful new way to visualize air quality around the world

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A new tool shows how much air quality has changed since the Industrial Revolution in cities across the world.

The Air Quality Stripes tool generates a single image of different colored stripes representing pollution each year in each major city.

Air pollution has fallen sharply in wealthy Western nations but is still a serious health risk in many places.

99 percent of the world's population live in places with air quality that’s worse than the WHO guideline.