The breathtaking human toll of environmental pollution

We all know that pollution is bad for our health.Just how bad was laid out by the World Health Organization this week in a bleak new report on environmentally related deaths.New analysis of data from 2012 found that a staggering 12.6 million people died that year from living and working in toxic environments.That’s almost equivalent to the combined populations of New York City and Los Angeles, and represents nearly a quarter of the 55.6 million deaths recorded that