The cocktail of soot, dirt, dust and smoke in
the air is harmful to human health and the environment, and causes massive disruption to economic activities.
Not exact matches
The team studied the impacts of sulphur emitted by ships using current marine fuels, which produce
air pollution particles that
are small enough
to be breathed deeply into the lungs and
are considered
harmful to human health.
He says that if
air pollution
is adding
harmful mutations
to the
human gene pool, «in the long run for society, the expenses
are huge.»
The
harmful effects of
air pollution on the
human body
are well documented, from causing brain damage
to increasing the risk of heart attacks, but it turns out that it can put people under the weather in more ways than one.
The key
air pollution - causing contaminant
is sulphur, which creates oxide gases and particles, both of which
are harmful to human health.
Given that the NAAQS
were designed principally with the goal of protecting
human health, failure
to meet these standards implies a significant fraction of the population live in counties characterized by
air quality that
is harmful to human health.
Their green - above - all approach makes lots of sense for children's furniture, from both a planetary and
human health perspective: youngsters spend tons of time in their cribs, on a changing table, and surrounded by stuff in their nurseries; exposure
to VOCs and other
harmful pollutants that
are off - gassing from their surroundings can lead
to both short and long - term health problems, especially if they
're living with poor indoor
air quality during their busiest developmental years.