Global trade causes more than 20 percent of air-pollution deaths.

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By Nikhil SwaminathanMar 30, 2017, 5:26 pm95 pts
A new study in the journal Nature investigated what triggers the nearly 3.5 million annual deaths worldwide stemming from airborne particulate matter. It attributed more than 750,000 of them to goods being made in one part of the world and consumed in another. The grim statistics center on Asia, home of cheap…

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