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Air pollution is the largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death [5] [14] and the fourth largest risk factor overall for human health. [15] Air pollution causes the premature deaths of around 7 million people worldwide each year, [5] or a global mean loss of life expectancy (LLE) of 2.9 years, [16] and there has been no ...
Air pollution can be a high risk for certain groups, including children under 18, adults over 65, people with chronic heart or lung disease, pregnant women and people with diabetes, according to ...
Overall, air pollution causes the deaths of around ca. 7 million people worldwide each year, and is the world's largest single environmental health risk, according to the WHO (2012) and the IEA (2016). [33] [34] [35]
The U.S. also saw an uptick in air pollution, climbing from a nationwide average of 8.9 µg/m3 in 2022 to 9.1 in 2023, with the southward-drifting smoke from Canada’s wildfires partly to blame.
Diseases caused by pollution, lead to the chronic illness and deaths of about 8.4 million people each year. However, pollution receives a fraction of the interest from the global community. [1] This is in part because pollution causes so many diseases that it is often difficult to draw a straight line between cause and effect.
A study published in June found that air pollution killed 135 million people over the last four decades around the world, with India and China accounting for the bulk of the fatalities. In 2023 ...
The WHO urban air quality database estimated Delhi's mean annual PM 10 levels in 2010 as 286 μg /m 3 and London as 23 μg /m 3. In 2014, the database estimated Delhi's annual mean PM 2.5 particulate matter levels in 2013 as 156 μg /m 3 whereas, London have only 8 μg /m 3 in 2010 but the nitrogen dioxide in London breach the European Union 's ...
But wildfire smoke is one the worst kinds of air pollution that people can breathe. Compared with other types of air pollution such as air quality experienced in large cities, wildfire smoke has ...