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Fossil fuel pollution kills millions more than scientists previously knew

In the US, the researchers found that 350,000 premature deaths per year are attributable to fine-particulate pollution generated by fossil-fuel combustion

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Even though air quality has improved in many countries, particularly wealthier ones, new findings suggest that even at lower concentrations pollution caused by fossil fuels is deadlier than previously understood

Eric Roston | Bloomberg
Efforts to slow the process of global warming focus on the future harms of continuing to burn fossil fuel, but new research released Tuesday shows that deadly consequences from pollution are killing larger numbers of people right now than had been assumed.
 
Fossil fuels are alone responsible for more than 8 million premature deaths annually, according to new research by a team of U.S. and U.K. scientists published in Environmental Research . That's double the previous high-end estimate of fine-particle pollution mortality, and three times the combined number killed by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria in 2018. 

Even though air quality

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