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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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