Pollution kills more than 9M people each year globally: study
ANKARA - Despite declines in deaths from household air and water pollution, pollution still kills more than 9 million each year, or one in six deaths worldwide, according to research published Wednesday in a top medical journal. "Over the past two decades, deaths caused by the modern forms of pollution have increased by 66 percent, driven by industrialization, uncontrolled urbanization, population growth, fossil fuel combustion, and an absence of adequate national or international chemical policy," the study in Lancet Planetary Health said. More than 90 percent of pollution-related d...
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