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Around 99 percent of the global population breathes air that exceeds the World Health Organization’s air quality limits, with people in low and middle-income countries being most exposed to pollution, according to the UN agency’s latest database. The agency’s report includes data on air pollutants such as particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide – both of which are found in fossil fuel emissions and blamed for some respiratory and heart conditions – for the years between 2010 and 2019 and covers over 6,000 cities in 117 countries. Air pollution kills at least 7 million people prematurely each y…