Almost 400,000 deaths in Europe in 2021 attributable to filthy air – EU report
Brussels, BelgiumReuters Almost 400,000 deaths in Europe in 2021 were related to three main air pollutants and some could have been avoided if pollutants had been reduced to World Health Organisation-recommended levels, an EU report said on Friday. The European Environment Agency said that within the European Union, pollution caused by fine particulate matter (PM2.5), […]
Toxic air seen cutting thousands of lives short each year in Europe’s cities
Thomson Reuters Foundation Tens of thousands of European city dwellers die prematurely each year due to air pollution, researchers said on Wednesday in a study ranking more than 800 cities according to the risk of early death from two leading pollutants. The study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, analysed the risk in each place […]