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Pollution Killed 7 Million People Worldwide in 2012, Report Finds
2014-03-26 01:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: From taxi tailpipes in Paris to dung-fired stoves in New Delhi, air pollution claimed seven million lives around the world in 2012, according to figures released Tuesday by the World Health Organization. More than one-third of those deaths, the organization said, occurred in fast-developing nations of Asia, where rates of cardiovascular and pulmonary disease have been soaring. Around the world, one out of every eight deaths was tied to dirty air, the agency determined - twice as many as previously...
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Pollution From Home Stoves Kills Millions Of People Worldwide
2014-03-25 20:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Air pollution has become the world's largest environmental risk, killing an estimated 7 million people in 2012, the World Health Organization says. That means about 1 out of every 8 deaths in the world each year is due to air pollution. And half of those deaths are caused by household stoves, according to the WHO report published Tuesday. The fumes from stoves that burn coal, wood, dung and leftover crop residues as primary cooking fuels contribute to heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and...
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World Health Organisation: 7 million people died because of air pollution in 2012
2014-03-25 14:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reveled that one in eight total global deaths in 2012 was been caused by air pollutants, which resulted in a high number of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. The organisation estimates that pollution from industries, cooking fires and auto fumes caused 7 million premature deaths worldwide in 2012. Indoor and outdoor air pollution has resulted in a high number of people, especially in the Southeast Asia and Western Pacific regions, having respiratory...
A liberal case for why corporations are people, too
2014-03-25 14:19:11| Grocery - Topix.net
The Supreme Court will hear two controversial cases about whether President Obama's health care law can require companies to provide certain forms of contraception to their employees through a health insurance plan.
Air pollution 'kills 7m people a year'
2014-03-25 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a report from the World Health Organisation published on Tuesday. The agency said air pollution caused about one in eight deaths and had now become the single biggest environmental health risk. "We all have to breathe, which makes pollution very hard to avoid," said Frank Kelly, director of the environmental research group at King's College London,...
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