How poverty is making air pollution worse in Chile’s Temuco

Nestled in a valley in central Chile, near lakes and snowcapped mountains, sits one of the world’s most polluted cities.Every winter, sleepy Temuco plunges to the bottom of global air quality rankings. While notoriously polluted megacities such as Beijing and New Delhi have populations almost 100 times that of the tiny Chilean town, contributing to round the clock traffic and factory activity, Temuco’s contamination does not come from economic activity. It comes from poverty.June though August,…

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