Talk:Air pollution

How could this article connect better to the country-specific articles?

There are quite a lot of country-specific articles called things like Air pollution in the United States/Canada/Germany/South Korea/Turkey... and so on around the world. But there is no clue that these articles exist from our main Air pollution article. Even if you expand the "Pollution" template at the bottom of the page, you don't find a list of the country articles. How could we improve this? Amend the template? Add in a category? 45154james (talk) 07:59, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

I copied the world topic from the US article - but I don’t understand templates so no doubt it can be improved Chidgk1 (talk) 17:30, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

That's perfect, thank you! I didn't know you could do that. It just needs the red link removing, but I'm not very good with templates either so I will leave it alone. 45154james (talk) 17:22, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

I think I've fixed it. I think the template needs both prefix= (mandatory) and title = (optional) to be specified in this case. 45154james (talk) 13:01, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

So it's not under construction anymore? ~2026-16177-67 (talk) 19:26, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Articles on Wikipedia constantly change and new viewpoint are added, dated information is removed and people improve the article. This one is pretty stable as a WP:good article. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 19:29, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Darth Stabro talk 20:18, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

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Air pollution by a brick factory

• ... that air pollution increases the risk of miscarriages, strokes and dementia?

• Source: Breathing polluted air for months or years can .. increase the likelihood of adverse birth outcomes, including preterm births, stillbirths, and miscarriages .. air pollution accounts for 48% of global deaths from COPD, 28% of deaths from IHD, 27% of deaths from stroke, 19% of deaths from lung cancer, and 18% of deaths from type 2 diabetes, Study after study has shown that higher levels of air pollution are correlated with increased risks of dementia

• • ALT1: ... that air pollution is responsible for over a quarter of deaths from coronary heart disease and one in five lung cancer deaths? Source: air pollution accounts for 48% of global deaths from COPD, 28% of deaths from IHD, 27% of deaths from stroke, 19% of deaths from lung cancer, and 18% of deaths from type 2 diabetes
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Winters v. New York

Improved to Good Article status by Femke (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 14 past nominations.

—Femke 🐦 (talk) 20:20, 12 July 2025 (UTC).

• @Femke: Article is newly made into a GA, hook is interesting. The citation regarding miscarriages isn't placed on the end of the sentence though. I think that'll be the only issue that needs to be addressed. Arconning (talk) 04:38, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

  I always forget about that silly rule. Thanks Arconning, all fixed now. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 06:56, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

  • Approved. :) Arconning (talk) 08:57, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

What are the ranges of common air pollutants?

This article on Air Pollution is very informative. However, I think readers, like me, would really appreciate if it included a readily accessible list of the Range of common air pollutants.

Many days, when the National Weather Service notifies us [-- for me, through Apple's iPhone Weather App] of an "Air Quality Alert," the potentially noxious air components are listed, but without information on the Good and Dangerous ends of the range. For example, today in NYC:

CO Carbon Monoxide 933 ppb NO2 Nitrogen Dioxide 44 ppb N0 Nitrogen Monoxide 79 ppb NOx Nitrogen Oxides 118 ppb O3 Ozone 3 ppb PM 10 Particulates Under 10 mu m 41 mu g/m3 SO2 Sulfur Dioxide 1 ppb

An example of what I now consider gold standard for reports format to ID what I'm suggesting: My Blood Work (like those from Quest Diagnostics), give the standard or reference ranges of blood components beside the value in my current blood test report.

I don't know if this suggestion of an addition to this article fits in the interests of any Volunteer, but I thought I'd ask since I turn to Wikipedia all the time. I'd love to add a Bookmark on an article that had this reference.

Best to you all. And thank you for all you do! ~2026-10935-37 (talk) 22:49, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm not super interested in editing the article itself but I was curious enough to do a few minutes research. I found these W.H.O. guidelines that you could use to edit it yourself:

• https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240034228 (click on the executive summary)
• https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/air-pollution
• https://www.c40knowledgehub.org/s/article/WHO-Air-Quality-Guidelines?language=en_US

Ask if you want help with wiki formatting.

Anecdotally, when I lived in Hong Kong in the 1990s, the weather report would list which suburbs were within the WHO guidelines as green and others as orange or red - about half were orange or red.  Stepho  talk  23:58, 18 February 2026 (UTC)