UK air pollution deadlier than half of western Europe independent.co.uk

Air pollution in the UK is more deadly than in about half of western Europe, according to a major report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) into how people die. The report revealed that the causes of nearly half of the estimated 56 million deaths worldwide in 2015 had been recorded – a major step towards trying to reduce them. In dry, statistical terms, it catalogued human suffering and grief as never before.