Scale of India's Air Pollution Crisis Revealed in New Data
A man wearing a face mask cycles along a road in Delhi.
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Roughly 1.24 million people died in 2017 from India’s air pollution, according to The Lancet. The research released Thursday found 13 percent of India’s deaths -- one out of every eight -- could be attributed to bad air, underscoring the scale of the South Asian nation’s battle with the world’s deadliest air.