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Focusing on Air Quality Could Prevent 2.1 million deaths per year
2015-06-20 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Improving air quality in clean and dirty places could potentially avoid millions of pollution-related deaths each year. That finding comes from a team of environmental engineering and public health researchers who developed a global model of how changes in outdoor air pollution could lead to changes in the rates of health problems such as heart attack, stroke and lung cancer. Outdoor particulate air pollution results in 3.2 million premature deaths annually, more than the combined impact of...
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