Air pollution causes almost 6MILLION premature births around the world every year, study finds

Air pollution causes almost 6MILLION premature births around the world every year, study finds Air pollution may have contributed to almost 6million premature births and nearly 3million babies being born underweight around the world in 2019, a study claims.

And it wasn't just pollution from traffic or power plants, which have commonly been thought to be the biggest source of toxic air. The Daily Mail

See also: 

• Ambient and household PM2.5 pollution and adverse perinatal outcomes: A meta-regression and analysis of attributable global burden for 204 countries and territories (open access) PLoS Medicine