Sentences with phrase «premature death of millions»

For pets, being overweight can have significant adverse effects on their health and quality of life, and leads to the premature death of millions each year.

A new study has found that the premature death of millions of black voters in the US has affected the outcome of several elections.

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In one of the most extensive reports of its kind, environmental health experts have estimated that nine million premature deaths worldwide — 16 % of all deaths — were linked to pollution in 2015, with the majority of deaths coming from air pollution.

Strategies to live more safely in such an environment abound, and no wonder: The journal Nature recently found that air pollution leads to the premature death of three million people every year, mainly in Asia.

Most of the signatories expressed moral outrage that the ideologues of the anti-GMO movement, including behemoths like Greenpeace, demonize golden rice despite its potential to prevent millions of premature deaths from vitamin A deficiency in the developing world.

A total of 80 deaths due to GBS in premature and full term newborns occur per year among the 4 million low and high risk births in the US or 1/50, 000.

Using a 3 % discount rate, suboptimal breastfeeding incurs a total of $ 17.4 billion in cost to society resulting from premature death (95 % confidence interval [CI] $ 4.38 — 24.68 billion), $ 733.7 million in direct costs (95 % CI $ 612.9 — 859.7 million), and $ 126.1 million indirect morbidity costs (95 % CI $ 99.00 — 153.22 million).

«For every million smokers who switched to an e-cigarette we could expect a reduction of more than 6,000 premature deaths in the UK each year, even in the event that e-cigarette use carries a significant risk of fatal diseases, and users were to continue to use them indefinitely.»

Fuel poverty is causing misery, ill health and premature death in millions of households across the UK.

The programmes exposed a system designed to remove over a million disabled people from welfare support that has caused misery, anxiety and the premature deaths and suicides of an estimated 32 people a week.

Cutting that source of black carbon could help reduce the estimated 1.5 million premature deaths per year attributed to biofuel soot, Jacobson said.

Focusing on the year 2007, the researchers found that of the 3.45 million premature deaths caused by fine - particulate - matter air pollution, about 12 percent were related to pollutants emitted in a different region of the world, and 22 percent were associated with goods produced in one region for consumption in another.

«Our study reveals an explanation how nicotine contributes to induction of inflammation and in doing so shows new possibilities for future therapies to treat tobacco - related diseases which each year lead to premature deaths of several million people worldwide,» said Constantin Urban, a researcher involved in the work from the Umeå Centre for Microbial Research in Sweden.

Each year, China's toxic air contributes to the premature deaths of some 1.6 million people.

A new study of 60 million Americans — about 97 % of people age 65 and older in the United States — shows that long - term exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone increases the risk of premature death, even when that exposure is at levels below the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) currently established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A 2012 Greenpeace India report estimated that about 20 percent of premature deaths and more than 20 million asthma cases each year could be attributed to coal pollution.

Numerous studies have shown that air pollution leads to millions of premature deaths worldwide each year (see «Cutting through the smog on air pollution «-RRB-.

In addition to more than 100,000 premature deaths, it links millions of cases of asthma and respiratory ailments to coal exposure.

«Approximately 20 million children younger than 5 years of age worldwide are severely undernourished, leaving them extremely vulnerable to illness and premature death.

A recent study by EPA researchers showed that, in 2010 alone, the Clean Air Act prevented more than 160,000 premature deaths, 130,000 cases of heart disease and 1.7 million asthma attacks, not to mention 86,000 hospital admissions and millions of respiratory illnesses.

Air pollution in China has led to higher rates of asthma, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes, and — according to The Lancet — it contributed to 1.1 million premature deaths in 2015 alone.

They showed that reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels also reduces the pollution that causes millions of premature deaths in societies around the world.

Several studies have shown that air pollution contributes to millions of premature deaths annually.

(NaturalHealth365) According to the World Health Organization, cancer is one of the leading causes of sickness and premature death, worldwide, with about 14 million new cases reported in 2012, alone.

Millions of doses of «acid blocking» proton pump inhibitor drugs are doled out every year, yet most doctors and their patients are completely oblivious to their unintended, adverse effects, which include increased risk for premature death.

Suppose, as the Stanford computer study suggested, that very rapid climate change in the next century could result in hundreds of millions of premature human deaths?

We've begun managing the sooty particulate pollution that is linked to millions of premature deaths and also some warming.

This recent New England Journal of Medicine paper, «Global Effects of Smoking, of Quitting, and of Taxing Tobacco,» provides a chilling view of the expanding wave of death and disease resulting from this trade, with 5 million premature deaths a year even now and twice that rate forecast within a few decades.

The Christian Science Monitor has a valuable update on the international fight over curbing emissions tied to millions of premature deaths and tens of billions of dollars in health - care costs each year — the emissions from cigarettes.

Pollution in China is so severe that it is causing the premature deaths of nearly a million Chinese citizens yearly, killing off species and fouling the air and water of much of the rest of the planet.

The paper estimates that growing trees on 72 million hectares of land in Europe could result in 1,400 premature deaths on the continent annually at a cost of $ 7.1 B. Currently, 22,000 people are estimated to die prematurely from ozone pollution in Europe every year.

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In a major study, the Lancet journal has revealed that pollution - related diseases were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015, or some 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence combined.

In March this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report estimating that air pollution caused the premature deaths of seven million people in 2012, equivalent to one in eight of all deaths that year and double the previous estimate.

«To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being «appropriate» or «sustainable» is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease — and millions to premature death.»

- Around 6.5 million premature deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution - Energy production and use are by far the largest man - made sources of air pollutants - Technologies to tackle air pollution are well known Clean air is vital for good health.

-- Around 6.5 million premature deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution — Energy production and use are by far the largest man - made sources of air pollutants — Technologies to tackle air pollution are well known

Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and death in the world today, responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths.

With tens of millions of their people still suffering from acute poverty, and from the dire consequences of poverty such as preventable disease, malnutrition and premature death, it is understandable that their overriding priority is the fastest feasible rate of economic development.

Furthermore the ethics is indeed also clear; it is morally reprehensible to condemn millions (if not billions) of the world's poor to energy poverty, suffering, and possible premature death to save the world's future rich from the potential inconvenience of adapting to their climate.

The major milestone achieved at COP21 for greenhouse - gases is still far short of what is required to tackle other air pollutants that cause millions of premature deaths and cost the global economy trillions of dollars each year.

Those solid household fuels produce health - damaging indoor pollution that contributes to about four million premature deaths a year, most of them women and children.

Emissions from coal plants in China were responsible for a quarter of a million premature deaths in 2011 and are damaging the health of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, according to a new study.

In addition to these premature deaths, there were more than 130,000 cases of bronchitis, more than 20,000 respiratory and cardiac hospital admissions, a million asthma symptom days for children aged 5 — 19, 43 million restricted activity days and 10 million working days lost.

Cleaning up soot pollution could prevent between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths each year, according to the international team of researchers, while capturing methane from coal mines, landfills, and agricultural waste can yield natural gas, a less carbon intensive and increasingly valuable fuel.

FERC's ruling document cited research by RFF experts that estimated the proposed policy would have resulted in an additional 53 million tons of annual CO2 emissions and 27,000 cumulative premature deaths by 2045.

The Clean Air Task Force estimates that pollution from Navajo Generating Station contributes to 16 premature deaths, 25 heart attacks, 300 asthma attacks, and 15 asthma emergency room visits each year, with total annual health costs of more than $ 127 million.

Using a prominent human - Earth systems model linked with international community climate projections, the team showed that reducing greenhouse gases not only slows climate change, it prevents millions of premature deaths.

Strengthened Real Driving Emissions test programs in all major markets that follow the EU's regulatory example could avoid 1.5 million tonnes of NOx and 31,400 premature deaths per year in 2040.

Dirty air produces millions of premature deaths.