Photo: Chinese Air Pollution Deadliest in World, Report Says

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China's burgeoning urbanization has also increased rates of air pollution, such as the haze seen in this photograph of downtown Beijing, where people walk past a billboard advertising the 2008 Olympics.

Despite China's promise to present cleaner air to the world in time for the Olympics, a new World Health Organization report says nearly a quarter of a million Chinese die each year from air-pollution-related diseases—the highest incidence in the world.

Photograph by The Eng Koon/Getty Images

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