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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...
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...
WHO links 7 million premature deaths annually to air pollution; 12.5% of total global deaths
2014-03-25 11:30:27| Green Car Congress
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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China's face mask industry under scrutiny as pollution worsens
2014-03-25 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Chinese citizens are feverishly snapping up face masks as worsening air pollution fuels a multi-million dollar industry where many products fail to provide even basic protection, drawing calls for better oversight and standards. The country's worsening air quality is at the top of the list of concerns of China's stability-obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth-at-all-costs economic model that has poisoned much of the country's...
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