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Air pollution reducing average life expectancy by 3.5 years, says study
The New Indian Express Mangaluru
|August 29, 2025
Breathless In Capital
AIR pollution is reducing the average life expectancy in India by 3.5 years, nearly twice the impact of childhood and maternal malnutrition and more than five times that of unsafe water, sanitation, and handwashing, according to a study by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).
This story is from the August 29, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Mangaluru.
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