About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are ...

In fact, diseases caused by water pollution kill more people every year than all forms of violence—including war. Scientists can use a variety of tools and methods to protect aquatic ...

Exposure to polluted air, water and soil ... Thursday in The Lancet. The causes of death vary — cancer, lung disease, heart disease. The report links them to pollution, drawing upon previous ...

Nearly 1.6 million deaths were due to air pollution alone, and more than 500,000 were caused by water pollution ... that data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study ...

One in every six premature deaths worldwide in 2015, could be attributed to diseases caused by toxins in air or water, the study says. Of the 9 million people killed prematurely by pollution ...