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Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Short-term exposure to air pollution kills one million people globally every year, says study

Short-term exposure to air pollution kills more than a million people globally every year, according to a study.

Researchers at Monash University in Australia looked at mortality and levels of PM2.5 – a harmful pollutant - in over 13,000 cities and towns across the globe in the two decades to 2019.

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