Study finds mortality link to air pollution even below safety standards

Approximately 47,131 deaths occurred among study participants over the follow-up period, with higher mortality rates associated with increased air pollution exposure.

For nearly two decades, more than 325,000 Europeans breathed air that regulators deemed safe — and yet a landmark study published in The BMJ finds that even this cleaner air carried a measurable toll on human life. Researchers across six nations discovered that incremental increases in fine particles, nitrogen dioxide, and black carbon were each independently associated with higher death rates, even well below the thresholds set by the EU, the EPA, and the WHO. The findings invite a quiet but urgent reckoning: the lines we have drawn to separate safe from unsafe may have been drawn in the wron

Study finds mortality link to air pollution even below safety standards

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