CNN: Air pollution is making us dumber, study shows
A new study has found that air pollution might be more damaging to our health than previously thought. It seems that “prolonged exposure to dirty air has a significant impact on our cognitive abilities, especially in older men.” 1 The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) looked at data from the national China Family Panel Studies longitudinal survey and “mapped the cognitive test scores of nearly 32,000 people between 2010 and 2014 against their exposure to short and long-term air pollution.”2 What they found was that...
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