Sentences with phrase «about air pollution»

Despite legitimate concerns about air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, coal use will continue to be significant in the future.

For the purposes of this article, I'm talking about air pollution.

While we may not be able to do much about air pollution or background radiation, let's look at the factors we can control in more detail.

5.1 There are uncertainties linked to gaps in our knowledge about air pollution and the related health effects.

Despite legitimate concerns about air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, coal use will continue to be significant in the future.

At least for now, the main objective is to raise awareness about air pollution in London.

As part of the first National Clean Air Day last year, schools across Greater Manchester took part in a competition to create radio and video adverts to raise awareness about air pollution.

The study, which was led by Dr Rose Meleady, of UEA's School of Psychology, Prof Dominic Abrams and Dr Tim Hopthrow at the University of Kent, and Dr Julie Van de Vyver at the University of Lincoln, comes amid continued concern about air pollution levels in cities across the UK and worldwide.

(Inside Science)-- Most people weren't worried about air pollution in Stockholm, Sweden in 2006, according to Emilia Simeonova, an economist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

But they are raising concerns about air pollution from Sarajevo to New Delhi and supplying data to research efforts.

Re «Politicans» heads spin over grant to dancers» (Tribune, Dec. 14): Rep. Jim Matheson thinks a dance program to teach children about air pollution and the environment, funded by our nation's government, doesn't pass «the smell test.»

Earlier this year, I was in southeast Texas, taking pictures of an oil refinery for a report about air pollution and the harm it causes to lower - income communities like Port Arthur, Texas.

We educate parents about air pollution and empower moms to share their stories with lawmakers — and we can't do it without your help.

Concerns about air pollution range from the very local - many rural and suburban councils cite the nuisance caused by bonfires as their principal air pollution problem - to the truly global.

They want to know what the Government will do about air pollution and climate change after we Brexit.

Dan Jaffe has been worrying about air pollution since childhood.

While much has been done to learn about air pollution and the effects of smog, less is known about the importance of the «microenvironments» that surround our bodies.

«We tend to think about air pollution in terms of lung health, but the GI tract is also being bathed in it continuously.

The Bay Area recognizes that its air quality needs improvement, and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has a program called Spare the Air to educate residents about air pollution, and to educate them on the ways their actions affect air quality.

«This is another piece of the evidentiary pie about why we should really be doing something about air pollution,» says Tracey Woodruff, a professor who studies reproductive health and the environment at the University of California, San Francisco.

Released to launch the Big Pedal 2018, the UK's largest schools competition to encourage more young people to cycle, walk and scoot to school, the survey also revealed that the number of children concerned about air pollution rose to over half in London (53 per cent) and that 34 per cent stated that politicians were most responsible for bringing down levels of air pollution, while 29 per cent held drivers as most accountable.

THERE is one thing that dominates debate about air pollution and it informs everybody's view of one of the greatest health problems we face.

1) Forums user is curious about air pollution and air quality in the US; specifically, he's looking for «some map of US that shows which states are cleaner of different kinds of air pollution than others?»

China Daily, the Communist Party house organ, regularly runs stories about air pollution and toxic waste.

Reverse Grafitti: Creating Art by Cleaning Up Three years ago, we wrote about an air pollution guerilla marketing tactic in Chicago where they power - washed sidewalks with stencil forms to create shapes and texts.

The terminal decline of coal power is coming at the right time, when ever - cheaper renewables are able to fill in the gap, and concerns about air pollution spread around the country,» he said.

Beth Sawin: «Because [climate] issues touch on so many sectors, I see entry points almost everywhere... if your connection is asthma and children's health, then you can ask really hard questions about air pollution levels in your city, because a lot of the solutions to air pollution are also the solutions to climate change.»

airTEXT does a similar thing for Londonites who want to receive updates about air pollution levels in city.

When I interviewed Solis a few years ago for the Sierra Club's magazine, Sierra, she talked about the air pollution and toxic - waste problems that have plagued her neighborhood for decades; the myth that minorities don't care about the environment; the efforts of her immigrant father — a union shop steward in Mexico — to get safety equipment for his coworkers; and her own push to create parkland in her largely Hispanic and Asian working - class Southern California district.

To increase awareness about air pollution, Xiaomi has now become the first smartphone brand in India to integrate Air Quality Index (AQI) data — which also reflects the measurement of PM2.5 particles in the air — into its MIUI 8 Weather app.

In a move that will likely raise concerns among many environmentalists worried about air pollution, whatever waste can not be recycled will be shredded, bailed and transported abroad for incineration in waste - to - energy plants.

On reason some support RPSs is because they are concerned about air pollution from coal.

While the city's Ferry Street Bridge has become something of an artwork in the tradition of Christo, it's actually an environmental envelope in a section of the city especially concerned about air pollution.

As a nature enthusiast and bird - watcher who also is afflicted by asthma, she is concerned about air pollution and the impact humans are having on the global environment.

«As for what this means for the average person, says panel member Bruce Kelman of Golder Associates Inc. in Redmond, Washington, «I would be much more worried» about air pollution than EMFs.

«There are many reasons other than mutations to be concerned about air pollution,» Quinn says.

«There is concern about air pollution and its health impacts, more so following «diesel-gate»,» said Prof. Andersen.

People, particularly parents, are growing increasingly aware and concerned about air pollution.

Diesel engines will continue to make - up the bulk of engines powering Jaguar Land Rover vehicles in the future, despite pressure from lobbyists concerned about air pollution.

As such, anti-nuclear groups must continue to change their position on nuclear if they are to credibly claim they are concerned about air pollution and global warming.