BEIJING — Outdoor air pollution contributes to the deaths of an estimated 1.6 million people in China every year, or about 4,400 people a day, according to a newly released scientific paper.
The paper maps the geographic sources of China’s
toxic air and concludes that much of the smog that routinely shrouds
Beijing comes from emissions in a distant industrial zone, a finding
that may complicate the government’s efforts to clean up the capital
city’s air in time for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
The authors are members of Berkeley Earth,
a research organization based in Berkeley, Calif., that uses
statistical techniques to analyze environmental issues. The paper has
been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed scientific journal
PLOS One, according to the organization.
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