Researchers combined a global atmospheric arsenic emission inventory for 2005 and 2015 with a global model simulating atmospheric arsenic concentrations and found that the highest airborne arsenic concentrations in 2005 were over Chile and eastern China; however, by 2015, concentrations in India were higher than concentrations in eastern China, and the authors also found that, in 2005, China had the largest population at risk for cancer from inhaling atmospheric arsenic, though India surpassed China by 2015.
Article #20-02580: "Global impact of atmospheric arsenic on health risk: 2005 to 2015," by Lei Zhang et al.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences