State of Our Air - Global Pollution Data

Global Data Sources:

• UNEP Global Mercury Partnership
• World Health Organization Global Health Observatory
• World Meteorological Organization Global Atmosphere Watch
• Global Carbon Project
• NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
• A Graphical History of Atmospheric CO2 Levels Over Time
• Atmnospheric Carbon DioxidE indicators(Taken Down)
• Climate change: atmospheric carbon dioxide
• Methane - Earth Indicator
• Methane (CH4) Safety
• Trends in CH4
• Ground-level ozone over time: An observation-based global overview
• Ozone Trends
• Fifty Years After 1969: How Far Have We Come?
• Impact of parameter uncertainty on the transport of complex contaminants in aquifers
• Basic Information about Lead Air Pollution
• Lead Trends
• Nitrogen Dioxide Trends
• Carbon Monoxide Trends
• Lead Pollution
• Ground-level Ozone Pollution
• Timeline of Lead (Pb) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)
• Carbon Monoxide Trends
• LeadPollution.org
• Impact of in utero airborne lead exposure on long-run adult socio-economic outcomes: A population analysis using U.S. survey and administrative data
• Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (GBD 2021) Lead Exposure Estimates 1990-2021
• Carbon Monoxide Levels and Exposure Limits Chart
• A Global Decline in Carbon Monoxide
• AIRS Global Carbon Monoxide over 20 Years (2002-2022)
• Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)
• Sulfur Dioxide Trends
• Air Pollution
• A chronology of global air quality
• Air Quality - National Summary
• Air Quality - Cities and Counties
• Greenhouse gas concentrations surge again to new record in 2023
• Trends in N2O
• Trends in CO2
• Climate Change Indicators: Atmospheric Concentrations of Greenhouse Gases
• PM2.5 particles in the air
• Reversal of trends in global fine particulate matter air pollution
• Air pollution: concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), SDG 11.6.2
• PM2.5 Exposure
• World Air Quality Historical Database
• Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Trends
• Global urban temporal trends in fine particulate matter (PM2·5) and attributable health burdens: estimates from global datasets
• Biomonitoring - Lead
• United Nations Environment Programme's Global Mercury Partnership: Science for successful implementation of the Minamata Convention
• Air quality database: Update 2022
• 3000 years of carbon monoxide records show positive impact of global intervention in the 1980s
• Southern Hemisphere atmospheric history of carbon monoxide over the late Holocene reconstructed from multiple Antarctic ice archives
• Carbon monoxide (CO) Antarctic records from ice cores (DC12, ABN, Taldice), firn air (DE08-2, DSSW19K, DSSW20K, South Pole, ABN, Lock-In), and Mawson Station atmospheric history from -835 to 2021 CE [dataset bundled publication].
• Lead in Air
• EPA
• Northern Hemisphere atmospheric history of carbon monoxide since preindustrial times reconstructed from multiple Greenland ice cores
• SatPM2.5 (Satellite-derived PM2.5)
• GlobalPM25-V5GL0502-Annual-1998-2023-wThresFrac
• Daily and Annual PM2.5, O3, and NO2 Concentrations at ZIP Codes for the Contiguous U.S., 2000-2016, v1.0
• Hope and disparity: a colorful new way to visualize air quality around the world
• Air Quality Stripes
• Live most polluted major city ranking
• 2024 Annual Update
• Air quality statistics
• Air quality database: Update 2011
• Control of Lead Sources in the United States, 1970-2017: Public Health Progress and Current Challenges to Eliminating Lead Exposure
• Consumption of Leaded Gasoline and Average Air Lead Concentrations, U.S., 1975-2016.
• Air Quality Trends - Lead
• Ambient and household PM2.5 pollution and adverse perinatal outcomes: A meta- regression and analysis of attributable global burden for 204 countries and territories
• Trends in atmospheric methane concentrations since 1990 were driven and modified by anthropogenic emissions
• Interactive global map of 2024 PM2.5 concentrations
• UNEP Global Mercury Partnership
• Lead in outdoor air
• Ambient Air Quality Database Application
• Global Estimates of Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations from Satellite-Based Aerosol Optical Depth: Development and Application
• High variability between regional histories of long-term atmospheric Pb pollution
• Probing the Black Death for lead pollution insights
• A review on the importance of metals and metalloids in atmospheric dust and aerosol from mining operations
• A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature
• Earth’s Climate – Much Warmer Over the Last 485 Million Years
• UNEP Global Mercury Partnership
• Modelled estimates of particulate matter air pollution
• Executive Summary of EPA 747-R-96-002
• https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2017-11/documents/trends_report_1996.pdf
• Carbon Monoxide (1 month - Terra/MOPITT)
• Carbon Monoxide
• Atmospheric Methane
• Methane
• World will miss Paris climate target as nitrous oxide rises, report says
• Nitrous oxide emissions grew 40 percent from 1980 to 2020, accelerating climate change
• UNEP Global Mercury Partnership
• A New 66 Million-Year History of Carbon Dioxide Offers Little Comfort for Today
• Reconstructing 6-hourly PM2.5 datasets from 1960 to 2020 in China
• Changes in atmospheric methane concentrations, 1990-2023
• Global nitrous oxide budget (1980–2020)
• Air Quality: Carbon Monoxide (CO) Satellite Measurements
• Two Decades of Satellite Observations of Carbon Monoxide Confirm the Increase in Northern Hemispheric Wildfires
• Methane Emissions Data
• Global N2O Dashboard
• CMS: Annual Estimates of Global Riverine Nitrous Oxide Emissions, 1900-2016
• Global high-resolution gridded dataset of N2O Emission and mitigation potential from maize and wheat fields