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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

7 million deaths annually linked to air pollution

Black soot produced by burning refinery by-products at a petrochemical complex south of Lyon, France
In  recently released World Health Organisation statistics,  it is estimated that in 2012 approximately 7 million people died as a result of air pollution exposure. Air pollution is now the world's largest single environmental health risk and by reducing air pollution we could save millions of lives.

Click here to read the new WHO estimates.

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