ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 9 (UPI) -- Smokestack emissions from oceangoing ships will cause an estimated 87,000 deaths worldwide each year by 2012, U.S. researchers said.
James Winebrake of the Rochester Institute of Technology and colleagues note that the current finding is almost one-third higher than previously believed. Winebrake said most oceangoing ships burn fuels with a high sulfur content.