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Northern China's air pollution reduces life expectancy by 5.5 years

2013-07-08 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Air pollution causes people in northern China to live an average of 5.5 years shorter than their southern counterparts, according to a study released on Monday which claims to show in unprecedented detail the link between air pollution and life expectancy. High levels of air pollution in northern China much of it caused by an over-reliance on burning coal for heat will cause 500 million people to lose an aggregate 2.5 billion years from their lives, the authors predict in the study, published...

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