Corrigendum: Future global mortality from changes in air pollution attributable to climate change

Nature Climate Change 7, 647–651 (2017); published online 31 July 2017; corrected after print 16 October 2017. In the version of this Letter originally published,...

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The misery in Puerto Rico is completely unacceptable.

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