Pollution kills 600,000 children a year, WHO warns

Published October 29, 2018 12:07pm ET



More than 600,000 children died from breathing polluted air in 2016, according to a World Health Organization report published Monday.

The agency estimated that 93 percent of children under the age of 15 across the world are breathing in dirty air that puts their health and development at risk.

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