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More Than a Million Dead from Pollution in China

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 9:27
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Weather.com – 4/02/13, Sean Breslin

A masked Chinese man walks past a woman wrapping her head with a scarf on a street as the capital city is hit by polluted air and a sandstorm in Beijing, Saturday, March 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

We've seen the pictures of choking smog and pollution in China, but it might be far worse — and far more deadly — than originally thought.

According to a story from the New York Times, 1.2 million premature deaths occurred in 2010 alone from Chinese pollution, accounting for 40 percent of global pollution deaths. The report goes on to project that by the year 2050, dirty air will kill 3.6 million people per year, mostly in China and India, which would surpass dirty water and lack of sanitation as the biggest environmental killer.

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