Air pollution is leading to millions of preventable deaths each year, the World Health Organization says.
GENEVA -- The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn't meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year.
"After surviving a pandemic, it is unacceptable to still have 7 million preventable deaths and countless preventable lost years of good health due to air pollution," said Dr. Maria Neira, head of WHO's department of environment, climate change and health."Yet too many investments are still being sunk into a polluted environment rather than in clean, healthy air."The database, which has traditionally considered two types of particulate matter known as PM2.
Particulate matter has many sources, such as transportation, power plants, agriculture, the burning of waste and industry - as well as from natural sources like desert dust. The developing world is particularly hard hit: India had high levels of PM10, while China showed high levels of PM2.5, the database showed."Particulate matter, especially PM2.
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