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Stop air pollution is an urgent task

Publish Date: 03-Jun-2019

According to data from the United Nations Environment Programme, 90 percent of the world’s population lives in areas where air quality level exceeds World Health Organization limits. Approximately 7 million deaths were associated with air pollution. Some four million such cases happened in the Asia pacific. Air pollution leads to a series of problems, such as sickness, decreased intelligence levels, etc. It not only affects our health and the economy, but the pollutants also cause global warming.

Stop air pollution is an urgent task. Understanding the different types of pollutions, how they affect people’s health and the environment can help us adopt measures to improve the quality of air.

For more information, please see this webpage: https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories?_ga=2.28723964.1902872091.1559284324-265379527.1559284324

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