New York City residents have been experiencing a shocking decline in air quality, ranking the city among the worst polluted globally. The cause, of course, is a smoggy blanket of fumes from wildfires in Canada that have been drifting south, muting the sun and tinting the sky a foreboding apricot hue.
At one point Wednesday afternoon, IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company, reported that NYC had an air quality index of 353, which is more than double that of Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Delhi, India, two mega-cities often cursed with the world's most terrible air. A good air quality index is around 50 or below. According to IQAir, the air is so bad in NYC, it's gone from an "unhealthy" tier into straight up "hazardous" territory.
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