A tongue-in-cheek solution to the problems of air pollution at the Space To Breathe exhibition at Somerset House in London ALAMYAir pollution causes seven million deaths a year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday. Issuing updated figures, officials said that 90 per cent of people around the globe breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. In Britain, more than half of towns and cities where measurements were taken had fine particle air pollution above recommended limits. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, called for urgent action, saying: “Air pollution threatens us all, but the poorest and most marginalised people bear the brunt of the burden. It is unacceptable that over three billion people — most of them women and children — are still breathing deadly smoke every day from using polluting stoves and fuels.”Fine particles in polluted air travel deep into the…

Source: The Times May 01, 2018 22:59 UTC