Bad Air

"An estimated 7,000 citizens of this vast, thinly populated country of 3.48 million have died this winter due to air pollution, indoors and out."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/08/everyone-is-breathing-this-how-just-trying-to-stay-warm-is-killing-thousands-a-year-in-the-worlds-coldest-city

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‘Everyone is breathing this’: how just trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world’s coldest capital

In Ulaanbaatar, coal fires heat almost every home. But as extreme weather drives families off the Mongolian steppes into the city the air is becoming more deadly

The Guardian