More than 480 million people in India could see their life expectancy reduced by more than nine years if record levels of air pollution aren’t reduced swiftly, a report by US researchers has revealed.
The people living in the Indo-Gangetic plains of northern India, who account for 40% of the country’s population, are faced with pollution levels that “regularly exceed those found anywhere else in the world by an order of magnitude,” the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) said in its annual update, published on Wednesday.
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