Sentences with phrase «air pollution levels»

This was true even with the higher air pollution levels in the 1970s.

Many schools are actually some distance from busy roads and therefore unlikely to have high air pollution levels.

Understanding the many factors that influence a region's air pollution levels helps scientists project future levels and climate change.

This finding adds to previous studies that have linked acceptable air pollution levels with other complications including cognitive decline and fetal growth development.

But current air pollution levels are not that low.

The good news is that there's plenty you can do to ensure that your indoor air pollution levels stay low.

They also estimated air pollution levels at each 1 kilometer grid for the entire U.S. upon which the claims data could be overlaid and interpreted.

The team, from the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment and Health, estimated air pollution levels in the areas where the individuals lived in 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001, using measurements from Britain's extensive historic air pollution monitoring networks.

We need to continue collective efforts to reduce air pollution levels, both in the UK and internationally.»

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.

For their next project, the researchers are expanding their analyses to other regions of the world, including India, which suffers from air pollution levels as high as China's.

Readings will range from simple rain gauges to sophisticated measurements of air pollution levels.

This was also a small study and whether the results translate to other countries remains to be seen, because air pollution levels are much higher in urban China than in the United States or Europe.

Emilia Simeonova of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and her colleagues tracked air pollution levels in Stockholm, Sweden from 2004 to 2010.

Furthermore, the researchers said it is highly likely the damage to wildlife was even greater in locations closer to the fires, where air pollution levels were 15 - times higher than those in Singapore.

Also, the researchers referred to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality System which monitors air pollution levels at different sites across the US, and levels of ozone and fine particulate matter on a given day.

The researchers say that although air pollution levels in Western Europe are relatively low when compared to cities in Asia or Latin - America, study participants were still exposed to pollution levels that exceed the values recommended by the World Health Organization.

China also began to put its own house in order, spurred in part by deadly air pollution levels from coal - fired power plants.

EPA has developed an Air Quality index to help explain air pollution levels to the general public.

This, Oxford City Council said, would result in air pollution levels falling to «near - background levels.»

Campaigners believe it will cause air pollution levels to soar, rendering impossible a 2015 emission target set by the European commission.

Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects of different types of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning policies.

«The mix of these toxic air pollution levels with freezing temperatures poses a serious risk to people with lung conditions and can affect all of our health.»

As U.S. air pollution levels drop, studies accumulate linking even those levels considered safe to a broad range of ailments.

But in humid places with relatively low background air pollution levels, such as over the Amazon, supersaturation is common, she says.

Up to one - third of Europeans who live in urban areas are exposed to air pollution levels above European Union (EU) standards.

But during heat waves, city trees actually boost air pollution levels.

Dr. Guxens and colleagues assessed air pollution levels at home during the fetal life of 783 children.

The researchers were the first to measure PAHs directly in people's bodies rather than using air pollution levels as a proxy for their exposures.

Funded by a multinational partnership led by UMass Amherst and including the Himalayan region's Intergovernmental Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, the investigation will follow a cohort of 32 traffic control officers in Kathmandu during two seasons: Cold, dry winter from this month into March, with a second study in the hot, rainy monsoon season from June to August, when air pollution levels are lower.

According to the authors, the study adopts the approach used by the EPA to determine air pollution levels.

«We found biological effects in women exposed to air pollution levels below the EPA standard,» said lead author Rebecca Massa Nachman, who is a postdoctoral fellow at the Bloomberg School.

Havet added: «Our research reinforces the fact that air pollution levels found in Europe are still too high to preserve lung health, and the impact on health is likely to be even greater in other parts of the world with higher levels of pollution.

The Fraser Institute found that air pollution levels decreased slightly as a result of shutting down the coal plants in Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa, but not enough to warrant the expense.

Radical climate shifts can alter air circulation and precipitation, both of which affect air pollution levels.

In fact, asthma rates have increased, while air pollution has declined — underscoring that asthma hospitalizations and outdoor air pollution levels are not related.

Antonella Artuso — Toronto Sun — January 17, 2017 Ontario's hell - bent determination to phase out coal - fired generation raised electricity rates without significantly improving air pollution levels, a new Fraser Institute report says.

«You have hazardously high air pollution levels without a break, and it impacts the entire Southeast Asia region, including Singapore, west Malaysia and southern Thailand,» Field said.

Another study conducted in Fort Worth, Texas, concluded that «the measured and estimated air pollution levels did not reach levels that have been observed to cause adverse health effects.»

The researchers were able to link air pollution levels estimated at each person's house with two ultrasound measurements of the blood vessels, separated by about three years.

We need to continue collective efforts to reduce air pollution levels, both in the U.K. and internationally,» Hansell said.

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

No community should continue to bear the burden of air pollution levels that harm public health.

«Enhanced ozone production in urban areas is a concern because of the population size potentially impacted and because air pollution levels could be already elevated due to local and mobile sources,» explains Larsen.

Since the Columbia team started tracking air pollution levels in 1998, PAHs have declined, which Perera attributes to stricter anti-idling laws and phaseout of older diesel buses in New York City.

I spend three months of the year in New Delhi, India, where air pollution levels (in particular, fine particulates and ozone) are exceedingly high.

The researchers monitored air pollution levels in areas of England and Wales for nearly 40 years.

Although air pollution levels are generally higher in large, urban areas like Detroit, its generally safe to run anywhere unless theres a smog alert, says Dr. Roberts.