Tracking Accra’s Air: Lessons from 20 Years of Data

About this episode

The episode explores nearly twenty years of air quality data in Accra and its implications for the city's air pollution trends.

What can nearly twenty years of air quality data tell us about the city we live in today? In this episode of Clean Air Report Ghana, host Michael Asharley looks back at some of the earliest detailed measurements of air pollution in Accra — and what they reveal about how the city’s air has changed over time. Michael is joined by Raphael Arku, an Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose research has tracked particle pollution in Accr...

People in this episode

Host: Michael Asharley

Guest: Raphael Arku

Topics covered

• air quality
• pollution
• environmental health
• data analysis
• Accra

Keywords

• air quality
• Accra
• pollution data
• environmental health
• particle pollution

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Places: Accra

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