Each year, air pollution is estimated to lead to more than eight million premature deaths globally. This is mainly through cardiovascular diseases, to which more than a million lives are lost each ...

Only recently, a report by Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), an international resource watchdog group, says Nigeria has some of the worst air pollution in the world, with dense clouds of ...

According to the State of Global Air, 2024, air pollution is the second leading risk factor for premature deaths, resulting in around 8.1 million deaths annually from conditions such as stroke ...

President of the Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Nigeria (SOGHIN), Professor Jesse Otegbayo, has said that long-term exposure to fine particle pollution quietly circulating round the ...

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Chen also says that air pollution harms blood vessels, including the tiny ones in the kidneys, which can reduce blood flow ...

In 2019, air pollution caused about 6.7 million deaths, according to the World Health Organisation. ... The high levels of environmental pollution in Nigeria, including air and water pollution, ...

Firewood burning is a notable contributor to biomass pollution, as over 68.3 per cent of all households in Nigeria still depend on wood for cooking, while emissions from firewood represent about ...

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Indoor fires for heat and cooking taint the air for billions of people in poor countries. More than 1 billion people add toxins to their lungs by smoking cigarettes — and more recently, by vaping.

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