Map of air and atmosphere pollution in real time
The air pollution He is one of the greatest silent killers of the modern age. The EEA (European Environment Agency) estimates that the atmospheric pollution is still responsible for more than 430,000 premature deaths in Europe according to the latest report fromAir quality in Europe.
It is estimated that in the European territory, atmospheric pollution it is the single greatest environmental hazard to the health of its inhabitants. Consequences of the deterioration of the atmosphere, many, reduces the life expectancy of people and contributes to the appearance of serious diseases such as heart conditions, cancer or severe breathing problems among others.
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Regardless of whether our lives are as healthy as possible or we dedicate ourselves to the practice of ecological or natural philosophy and constant recycling, we continue to breathe literally and with forgiveness … "a lot of shit"
air pollution is the single greatest environmental hazard to human health
So know the state of real-time air qualityof our city should be an important point to see if you should act accordingly or not.
When you search … Air pollution in Madrid or Barcelona (As an example), suddenly a myriad of practically illegible tables, maps and data appear from which we can draw few clear conclusions.
This is where Plume Labs comes in, a Paris-based startap that with the project World Air Map shows us amap with the air quality of the most important cities in the world, in a very clear and simple way.
A tool, both for activists and citizens, to use in the fight for clean air and improving the environment.
The pollution map it is constantly updated, so the data it returns is live, every hour. It integrates around half a million data points, which are provided every day by around 11,000 environmental stations around the world.
What it allows, is not only ainstant view of air pollution levels of a certain place, several or larger regions, but also the estimation of the air in the pollution levels in one-hour intervals based on 200 metropolitan areas using predictive models.
But let's see severalreal-time air pollution examples that throws the interactive map …
Madrid air pollution map
Barcelona air pollution map
Clearly, the resulting data is easy to understand, being able to inform citizens about which hours of the day are the least healthy to be outside due to the high levels of air pollution or help us understand the big picture, it also has a feature that provides alerts with custom contamination reports.
To access the application from the Plume Labs website… HERE. Also available is a Pollution levels app for iOS and Android platforms in the same portal.
As a note, the contamination in real time can also be consulted via the web from the waqi.info portal
We no longer have an excuse to know the quality of the air we breathe and remember to see our article on healthy and modern architecture.
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