Research News:
Pollution causes 40 percent of deaths
ITHACA, N.Y., Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A U.S. meta-analysis of 120 published studies found that water, air and soil pollution causes 40 percent of human deaths worldwide.
David Pimentel, of Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., and a team of Cornell graduate students examined data on the effects of population growth, malnutrition and various kinds of environmental degradation on human diseases. They found environmental degradation, coupled with world population growth, are major causes of malnourishment and cause
rapid increases in human diseases.

The Research:
Read the research behind this story in the journal Human Ecology.