Air pollution curbing life expectancy

The life expectancy of Greeks is being shortened by up to two years due to high atmospheric pollution levels, according to the findings of new international research presented at a two-day conference that concluded on Crete on Tuesday.

The findings were revealed by Dutch atmospheric chemist Jos Lelieveld, a professor at the Max Planck Institute and collaborator with the Cyprus Institute, at a conference in Iraklio that was organized by the Panhellenic Infrastructure for Atmospheric Composition and Climate Change (PANACEA), an initiative of Greek scientific and research groups that focus on atmospheric pollution and climate change. 

Lelieveld's research was based on a new scientific approach, which he and German cardiologist Thomas Munzel presented earlier this year, that found the estimated mortality caused by pollution is double what was originally thought due to its...

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