“For years, I had this figure in my head — 4.2 million deaths,” Karn Vohra says. That’s the annual number of fatalities attributed to air pollution — dust, wildfire smoke, fossil-fuel combustion — by a well-known study. It’s a large number, but calculations done by a team including Vohra, a …
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