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New study suggests pollution is the culprit in 16 per cent of deaths worldwide

By: Nathaniel Tok Pollution is the leading environmental cause of death and disease, according to a recent study. SFU health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear is the author of a report released by The Lancet Commission detailing the adverse health outcomes that pollution causes in the global human population. In the first report of its kind to quantify the burden of pollution as well as its economic and social cost, the study found that nine million deaths or 16 per cent of all deaths around the world in 2015 were caused by pollution-related diseases. “We can prevent pollution-related deaths because we are…

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