22-08-2019 18:27 via theverge.com

Bad air days are even deadlier than we thought

Photo by Ricardo Funari/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images Worldwide, rising levels of air pollution increase the chances that people will die early, a sweeping new study finds. In Australia, which has historically low levels of air pollution, an increase in sooty air led to a sharp rise in the rate of earlier deaths.More air pollution means more deaths, even at low levels of air pollution and short exposures to it, according to the study, which measured particulate matter and daily dea
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