In News: Mortality & Morbidity Due to Air Pollution

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2011-11-24, EEA, Europe
"Industrial Air Pollution Cost 169 Billion Euros in 2009"

2011-11-16, Earth Justice, Worldwide
"35,700 Deaths Could Be Prevented Annually by Strong Soot Standards."

2011-07-05, Science Daily, Worldwide
"Air Pollution Linked to Learning and Memory Problems, Depression."

2011-06-09, AFP, Afghanistan, Kabul
"Air pollution kills 3,000 annually in Kabul."

2011-03-14, Huffington Post, United States
"Power Plant Air Pollution Kills 13,000 People Per Year, Coal-Fired Are Most Hazardous".

2010-12-23, The Press TV, France
"Air pollution is responsible for 40,000 premature deaths every year in France".

2010-12-21, Ecologist, United Kingdom
"Air pollution linked to 200,000 premature deaths in UK".

2010-10-16, Financial Express, Dhaka, Bangladesh,
"Major air pollutant - suspended particulate matter - responsible for 10,000 deaths every year".

2010-09-30, Science Daily, USA,
"Strong links established between diabetes and air pollution in USA".

2010-09-01, YubaNet, USA,
"Fine particle air pollution responsible for 9,000 deaths in California every year".

2010-06, Acid News, Europe,
"Air pollution by fine particles is estimated to cause half a million premature deaths in European countries every year".

2010-05-21, Fiza News, Pakistan,
"Urban air pollution causes 22,000 deaths annually".

2010-05-17, National Post, China,
"Indoor air pollution kills 2.2 million youth each year".

2010-04-01, Washington Post, Mexico,
"Mexico City drastically improved air quality to reduce mortality and morbidity".

2010-03-26, Asia News, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar,
"Air pollution-related health costs account for as much as 4 per cent of Mongolia’s GDP".

2010-03-24, CO2 Science, United States,
"770 additional deaths estimated due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions".

2010-03-21, The Independent, United Kingdom,
"Britain: A breath of Foul Air - ~50,000 premature deaths annually due to air pollution".

2010-02-26, US News, United States,
"It's not just your lungs that suffer from air pollution".

2010-02-23, Guardian, United Kingdom,
"Air pollution may cause 35,000 deaths a year in Britain".

2010-01-21, Scientific American, United States,
"Clean air equals longer life".

2010-01-09, The Star, United Kingdom, Sheffield,
"Poor air quality is responsible for 240 to 325 premature deaths a year and burdens the city with £95 million in extra costs".

2009-10-08, The National, UAE,
"850 deaths each year linked to air pollution".

2009-06-01, The Spec, Canada, Hamilton,
"Smoggy days kill ~500 a year".

2009-05-29, Reuters, Worldwide,
"Climate change causes 315,000 deaths a year".

2009-05-24, New Wales, United Kingdom, Wales,
"Air pollution kills ~1,200 a year".

2009-05-15, The News, Pakistan,
"Air pollution kills ~23,000 annually".

2009-05-13, Guardian, Europe,
"Heat waves in 2003 killed ~70,000".

2009-05-12, Guardian, Worldwide,
"100 million premature deaths could be prevented by cutting global emissions by 50% by 2050".

2009-05-01, BBC, United Kingdom, London,
"Air pollution kills 3,000 a year".

2009-04-29, Earth Times, United States,
"60 Percent of Americans live in areas where air is dirty enough to endanger lives".

2009-04-25, Hindustan Times, India,
"Over 20 million people have asthma and susceptible to higher risks."

2009-04-25, Telegraph, United Kingdom,
"Cars driven in lower gear contributes to more than 32,000 deaths every year".

2009-04-24, The Nation, Pakistan,
"Pollution kills 55,000 across the nation every year".

2009-04-22, NPR, United States,
"Smog dealths in year 1948 led to the Clean Air laws".

2009-04-20, Guardian, United Kingdom, London,
"2,905 premature deaths in Greater London in 2005 were attributable to PM10".

2009-04-13, BBC, United States,
"Air pollution shortens life".

2009-04-12, Gulf News, UAE,
"Air pollution is a major public health issue".

2009-04-09, Guardian, Worldwide,
"Up to 60,000 premature deaths a year worldwide are due to PM emissions from ocean-going ship engines".

2009-04-07, Naples News, United States,
"Asthma has become an explosive health problem".

2009-04-03, IRIN, Bangladesh, Dhaka,
"Air pollution is causing ~15,000 premature deaths a year".

2009-03-22, AFP, Worldwide by WMO,
"Lethal air pollution booms in emerging nations".

2009-03-01, Mail Today, India, Delhi,
"Delhi is Country's asthma capital".

2009-02-19, Jakarta Globe, Indonesia, Jakarta,
"50% of the professionals may be literally sick of work due to air quality".

2009-02-13, Russian News & Information Agency, Russia,
"Air pollution is responsible for 17% of diseases in children and 10% in adults, and affects 44% of the population".

2009-02-10, The New Vision, Uganda,
"Do we have to live with pollution?".

2009-01-29, IRIN, Afghanistan, Kabul,
"Air pollution is hastening the deaths of 3,000 every year".

2009-02-08, Gulf news, Bahrain,
"More than 10% of the population suffers from asthma and the number is set to rise as air pollution increases".

2009-01-22, AFP, Hong Kong,
"Air pollution caused more then 6,600 premature dealths".

2009-01-16, Salt Lake Tribune, United States,
"Dirty air kills".

2008-11-07, Manila Times, Philippines, Manila,
"Air pollution kills 5,000 annually".

2008-10-06, Med Guru, United Kingdom,
"Ozone pollution is attributed to killing more than 1,500 Britons a year".

2007-08-07, Telegraph, China, Beijing,
"Pollution sparks health worries".

2008-03-15, IES, India, Hyderabad,
"Air pollution causes ~2,500 premature deaths annually".

2007-07-11, Med-India, India,
"Air pollution in India causes 527,700 deaths a year".

2007-07-11, Med-India, China,
"Air pollution in China causes 656,000 deaths a year".

2007-07-11, Med-India, United States,
"Air pollution in United States causes 41,200 deaths a year".

2007-07-07, World Bank, China,
"The combined health and non-health cost of outdoor air and water pollution for China's economy comes to around $US100 billion a year".

2006-10-06, ENS, Worldwide by WHO,
"Air pollution in the world cities is causing some two million premature deaths every year".

2007-06-15, UE.Info, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar,
"Air pollution causes ~7,000 premature deaths".

2005-11-01, Nature, Worldwide,
"Anthropogenic climate change of the past 30 years already claims over 150,000 lives annually".

2005-02-21, BBC, Europe,
"Air pollution is responsible for 310,000 premature deaths".

 

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