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10/31/2017 / By Janine Acero

A wide variety of disease is caused by pollution, which kills 16% of the world’s population annually

Diseases caused by pollution killed 16 percent of the world’s population in 2015 – an estimated nine million premature deaths – according to a report by The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health. Health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear of Simon Fraser University authored the report detailing the commission’s findings on the adverse health effects of pollution on […]

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