One in Eight Deaths in Europe Linked to Pollution, Environment, EU Says

Reuters

Environmental factors such as air pollution and heat waves, exacerbated by climate change, contribute to around 13 percent of all deaths in Europe, according to a new European Environment Agency report. A total of 630,000 deaths in the European Union’s 27 countries plus Britain were attributable to environmental factors in 2012, the latest year for which data are available, the report said.

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