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One in seven children across the globe breathes dangerously toxic air, according to a new UNICEF report released today.Using satellite imagery, the childrens aid organization determined that 300 million children worldwide breathe air six times more polluted than the World Health Organizations recommended limit.Rodney Weber, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology who studies the chemical composition of air, likened that air quality to being in a room where people are smoking. The report showed a total of 2 billion children live in conditions that surpass those limits, but even air that is at or below WHO standards is not absolutely safe. Theres no safe level, Web
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