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Air pollution scourge underestimated, green energy can help: U.N.
2013-04-10 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Air pollution is an underestimated scourge that kills far more people than AIDS and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. Investments in solar, wind or hydropower would benefit both human health and a drive by almost 200 nations to slow climate change, blamed mainly on a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from use of fossil fuels, they said. "Air pollution is causing more deaths than HIV or malaria combined," Kandeh...
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