Explained: On World Environment Day, here’s how air pollution has gripped our planet | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: On World Environment Day, here’s how air pollution has gripped our planet | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Thomson Reuters Foundation |Barcelona |Updated: June 5, 2019 3:02:58 pm

Explained: On World Environment Day, here’s how air pollution has gripped our planet

Household air pollution causes about 3.8 million premature deaths each year, the vast majority of them in the developing world, and about 60 per cent of those deaths are among women and children.

Here are some facts on the human impacts of air pollution and its links with climate change (File)

With nine out of 10 people on the planet now breathing polluted air, nobody is safe from air pollution, the United Nations warned on World Environment Day.