I hope that today's forum is a sign that the road transport industry is starting to understand that it is your children's future at stake − it's your children who will get lung diseases and asthma
if urban air pollution is not dramatically reduced; it's your children who will suffer the consequences of climate change that the scientists are trying to warn us of − more scorchers, more devastating cyclones, more Ross River Fever, more bushfires, degraded beaches, flooded houses, and the disappearance of some of Australia's unique wildlife.
If urban air pollution turns the same trick, then rainfall near large cities may be suppressed markedly.
Not exact matches
«Some of the city's worst
air quality,
if not the worst, is in midtown Manhattan,» said Nilda Mesa, the former director of the Mayor's Office of Sustainability who now heads the Columbia University Earth Institute's
Urban Sustainability and Equity Planning program, in a recent interview with amNewYork.
«
If trees were to be established throughout their potential cover area, they would serve to filter
air and water pollutants and reduce building energy use, and improve human well - being while providing habitat and resources for other species in the
urban area.»
So it's critical to replenish your antioxidant stores both internally and externally morning and night, and even more frequently
if you engage in intense exercise, live in an
urban center with lots of pollution in the
air, or expose your skin to the sun.
If you're stuck in an
urban area that reeks of pollution, an onboard scent dispenser freshens the
air.
I've long wondered whatever would / will happen
if our large
urban and suburban populations were suddenly deprived of our modern heating and
air conditioning.
In other words, UHI * is the value of the
urban - heat - island effect
if wind were not reducing it by replacing warmer
air with colder; and NSTI * is the effect of the near - surface temperature inversion
if the wind were not mixing up the
air near the ground with the
air a little higher up.
The Committee heard conservative estimates that at least 65 more people would die each year in Australia as a result of the increase in
urban air pollution and traffic accidents
if the GST package goes ahead as proposed.
The columnist, Charles Komanoff, notes that
if New York still had poor
air quality, like it did in the 1970s, then it would have been much harder to court investors and residents to invest in and live in polluted
urban areas, particular in high end real estate.
«
If trees were to be established throughout their potential cover area, they would serve to filter
air and water pollutants and reduce building energy use, and improve human well - being while providing habitat and resources for other species in the
urban area.»
If urban sprawl just brings more commuting and therefore transportation and
air pollution issues, not to mention eating up usable greenspace with more houses and big box stores, then the question comes as to how to construct new comes in a city that is already developed?