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Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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—Philip Landrigan, director of Boston College’s Global Observatory on Pollution and Health. million people worldwide in 2017, the paper notes. Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 The most disturbing finding was the increase in deaths from ambient air pollution. billion in 2020 to 4.3 billion by 2100.

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