Home WHO: air pollution 'is single biggest environmental health risk'
 

Keywords :   


WHO: air pollution 'is single biggest environmental health risk'

2014-03-25 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Air pollution has become the world's single biggest environmental health risk, linked to around 7 million or nearly one in eight deaths in 2012 according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The new figures are more than double previous estimates and suggest that outdoor pollution from traffic fumes and coal-burning, and indoor pollution from wood and coal stoves, kills more people than smoking, road deaths and diabetes combined. Around 80% of the 3.7 million deaths from outdoor pollution...

Tags: health single air risk

Category:Electronics and Electrical

Latest from this category

All news

»
24.11
24.11sobbat DB4R
24.11RC10
24.11 Knicks
24.11 W6S-JP001
24.11SALOMON XLT 150
24.11NU: EYE
24.11
More »