No nation clears WHO’s bar for air quality — and climate change is making it harder

Scientists link exposure to particulate matter with heart and lung disease and 7-million premature deaths each year

22 March 2022 - 21:52 By Todd Woody

Hundreds of millions of people around the world are breathing dirty air that far exceeds health guidelines, and climate change is making pollution worse, according to a new report that analysed real-time air quality data from tens of thousands of monitoring stations...

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