Tiny lungs, hefty price: Air pollution’s unequal burden on young children
There’s an urgent need to protect the young as the effects of climate change threaten to exacerbate the problem
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A 2022 global report showed that only 13 countries had healthy air quality levels and none of them were from Asia.
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Peck Gee Chua
My daughter was four when we moved from Kathmandu to Kuala Lumpur in 2019 to escape air pollution.
We were living in Nepal’s capital due to my husband’s job.
