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Air Pollution In China, India Shortens Life By Two Years, Study Finds
2016-07-01 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Air pollution reduces life expectancy in the worlds two most populous countries by around two years by 25 months in China and 23 months in India, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). China has undergone a process of rapid industrialization and urbanization over the past two and a half decades, with demand for energy increasing almost three and a half times since 1990. Almost all the increase was met by fossil fuels, with coal, the dirtiest form of fossil fuel, generating...
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