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Pollution causes one in six deaths worldwide

In 2015, pollution killed three times the number of people as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, and 15 times the number of people killed by war and violence. Richard Fuller, president of Pure Earth and co-author of the study, joins Hari Sreenivasan with more

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