Cathy Rogers is a research consultant at Social Change Lab, a non profit which conducts and disseminates social movement research to help solve the world’s most pressing problems.
The study confirmed that only six countries met the World Health Organization’s (WHO) updated safe levels of the deadly air pollutant, particulate matter (PM) 2.5.
The report found that water scarcity is also becoming more common in rural areas, with water shortages affecting from two to three billion people for at least a month out of each year.