Ship Emmissions Killing 60,000 a Year: Study

BEIJING -- Emissions from ocean-going ships are responsible for about 60,000 deaths a year from heart and lung-related cancers, according to research published yesterday that calls for tougher fuel standards.

Shanghai, Singapore and Hong Kong, three of the world's five busiest ports, were likely to suffer disproportionate impacts from ship-related emissions, said the study, published in Environmental Science and Technology, a journal of the American Chemical Society.

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