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United Kingdom: Air pollution: What they are not telling us about smog
2014-04-03 07:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Suddenly we are all hearing about air pollution. More than three and a half million especially vulnerable people, with heart and lung conditions, were advised to "avoid strenuous activity' yesterday as levels of tiny but dangerous particles in the air reached the maximum level on the Government's official scale. Even relatively healthy people were advised to "reduce physical exertion'. Scores of flights were cancelled because of smog, and red dust -- swept up from the Sahara and carried by the...
Air pollution causes 7 million deaths a year, report finds
2014-03-29 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: What do you think is the worlds largest cause of preventable deaths? Smoking? Poor diet? Blood pressure? It is air pollution, which led to a staggering 7 million deaths in 2012, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Findings revealed it was the cause of one in eight global deaths, more than doubling previous estimates and confirming pollution as the worlds biggest environmental health risk. Exposure to fumes both indoors and outside leads to strokes, heart disease, cancer and...
Air pollution, now worlds single largest environmental risk
2014-03-26 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: The World Health Organization today released mortality data from 2012 estimating that around 7 million people (one person in eight) died globally that year as a result of air pollution exposure. This finding more than doubles previous estimates and confirms that air pollution is now the worlds largest single environmental health risk. In particular, the new data reveal a stronger link between both indoor and outdoor air pollution exposure and cardiovascular diseases, such as strokes and ischaemic...
WHO Report: Indoor Air Pollution Is Greatest Environmental Health Risk
2014-03-26 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Seven million people die each year because of exposure to air pollution. That's one in eight deaths across the globe, making air pollution the single greatest environmental health risk on Earth. The estimate was reported this week by the World Health Organization; based on 2012 numbers, it is double the WHO's previous 2008 estimate. What's more shocking is that the air pollution is often in the victim's own home. More than half of those deaths are caused by indoor pollutants, which in the developing...
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...
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