• Air

    • Air is the part of Earth's atmosphere that humans breathe. It is essential for all life on earth but we are doing all sorts of bad things to it.

    • Air

  • Air that you have inhaled today

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    • The air you breathe

    You breathe about 11,000 liters of air every day. That's nearly 8 liters every minute and more than 300 million liters over a lifetime. But have you thought about what's in the air?

    …is not all that clean

    The air you breathe contains lead, arsenic, mercury, benzene, dioxins, cadmium to name a few of the things that are not good for you.

    The consequences

    The negative effects of air pollution might have been grossly underestimated. About 4 percent of deaths in the United States, and more than 10 percent of lung cancer in Europe, is caused by urban air pollution. In 2030, premature deaths from lung cancer are projected to be multiplied by four.

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