China: Air Pollution and Cognitive Performance

The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance, PNAS

"We find that long-term exposure to air pollution impedes cognitive performance in verbal and math tests".

The impact of air pollution is apparently the equivalent to the loss of one year of education (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172w4dxll4ygr3).


Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals - Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’, The Guardian

"It found that high pollution levels led to significant drops in test scores in language and arithmetic, with the average impact equivalent to having lost a year of the person’s education. “Polluted air can cause everyone to reduce their level of education by one year, which is huge,” said Xi Chen at Yale School of Public Health in the US, a member of the research team".

Air pollution may harm cognitive intelligence, study says, BBC News


Newsday, World Service. from c. 5.15 point


Too dirty to breathe: can London clean up its toxic air?The Guardian