Nine million more people are breathing dirty air than in last year's report.
About nine million more people are breathing dirty air than in last year's report.Nearly half of the nation’s population – some 150 million people – live with and breathe polluted air,"placing their health and lives at risk," according to aThe association's 21st annual “State of the Air” report said that climate change continues to make air pollution worse, with many western cities again seeing record-breaking spikes in particle pollution due to wildfires.
According to the lung association, those are the three years with the most recent quality-assured air pollution data. In addition, those three years – 2016, 2017 and 2018 – were among the five hottest recorded in global history. When it comes to air quality, changing climate patterns fuel wildfires and their dangerous smoke, and lead to worsened particle and ozone pollution, the report said.
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