Recent research in the US has shown that, in simple terms, white people breathe better quality air than black people. When written as bluntly as that it sounds like a joke, almost like the kind of headline you would read in The Onion. But it’s actually a perfectly serious phenomena – areas of the US where the population are predominantly white consistently have better air quality than in areas that are mostly black. Considering the effects of air quality on our day-to-day life and on our life expectancy, this discovery has a lot of potential implications.
Posted on: Wed, 21 May 2014 05:28:44 +0000
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