The Lancet: Air, water and soil pollution costs globe $4.6tr a year
Comprehensive Lancet research says governments have neglected tackling pollution that causes immense economic damage and nine million early deaths a year
The huge global costs of pollution have been starkly laid out in a comprehensive new Lancet study today, which estimates worldwide losses of $4.6tr and the early deaths of nine million people a year can...
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