Air pollution in India is so bad that it kills half a million people every year
An Indian national flag flies as a thick layer of smog envelops the city skyline after Diwali festival, in New Delhi, India. New Delhi is imposing new rules to reduce its notoriously snarled traffic and fight extreme air pollution that has earned India’s capital the title of world’s most polluted city. Photo by AP Photo / Altaf Qadri, File.
Michael Jerrett, chair of UCLA’s department of environmental health sciences, comments on a new report suggesting that outdoor air pollution in India is contributing to more than half a million premature deaths each year.
