Sentences with phrase «airborne pollution»

Not too long ago there was the report that said Red Deer had higher levels of airborne pollution than what they should have.

The plan was originally designed to reduce airborne pollution in California, and Massachusetts and New York have since followed suit.

Researchers found that those who arrived at the site on 9/11 or 9/12 had a 45 percent increased risk of CRS surgery than those who arrived on 9/13, when rainfall reduced airborne pollution at the site.

Harvard University risk analyst James Hammitt tells Business Insider these deaths are «highly predictable,» in part because medical studies have strongly linked airborne pollution to mortality.

Architects Douglas Hecker and Martha Skinner of the design studio Fieldoffice dreamed up SuperAbsorber as they discussed how «barriers should be designed to absorb airborne pollution and light pollution, in addition to sound pollution,» Hecker says.

The SuperAbsorber highway barrier, for instance, reduces local airborne pollution through a process known as photocatalyzation.

Richards also spends about 10 % of his time on research, developing wireless air sensor networks for detecting airborne pollution in real time.

«If one city has a lot more airborne pollution than another,» Ward says, «that city will suffer the effects of light pollution on a much greater scale.»

Conservation attacks some of the real problems you have identified, like airborne pollution, and limited resources, and excess waste.

Suffused with an apparently supernatural light — the result of the lack of airborne pollution — devoid of any signs of the hand of man, the terrain appears immaculate, timeless.

A study released earlier this week indicates that airborne pollution in China may have shortened the lives of 500 million Chinese by 2.5 billion years.

This cover will protect your boat from the sun, rain, snow, airborne pollution, birds and rodents, and dust.

Children's health can benefit from congestion charging schemes that limit city - centre traffic and the airborne pollution it generates.

Scottish researchers have shown that airborne pollution is causing nitrogen to accumulate in the tissues of plants growing in threatened habitats such as sphagnum bogs, lowland heaths and heather moors.

According to Italcementi, an Italian maker of photocatalytic cement, the airborne pollution of a large city could be cut in half if pollution - reducing cement were to cover just 15 percent of urban surfaces.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has listed three additional culprits: restricted habitat, airborne pollution, and a fungal pathogen that may well have been spread by human contact.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has listed three additional culprits: restricted habitat, airborne pollution, and a fungal pathogen that may well have been spread by human contact.