Sentences with phrase «bad air pollution»

I know the world likes to blame bad air pollution in China on the coal power plants, but Paris gets most of its electricity fro nuclear power.

«The residents of California should be especially grateful since we have a geography that is conducive to bad air pollution.

Despite cleanup efforts, Californian cities continue to have the worst air pollution in the nation.

Ohio and Pennsylvania today suffer from some of the worst air pollution in the country — pollution that will worsen if nuclear plants are closed.

Not only are you at risk of being run over on the traffic - clogged roads and streets of this chaotic city of 14 million — you're also more than likely to suffer from serious health problems due to some of the worst air pollution [continue reading...]

India's capital, Delhi, may have surpassed Beijing to become the city with the worst air pollution in the world.

Air pollution is already reducing life expectancy in northern China by five and a half years, and in India (whose capital, New Delhi, has the worst air pollution of any large city in the world) by 3.2 years.

It has been reported that Indian cities have the worst air pollution in the world, elsewhere it has been claimed that China holds the records.

Winter typically brings the worst air pollution to northern China because of a combination of weather conditions and an increase in the burning of coal for homes and municipal heating systems, which usually start on a specific date.

Last year the World Health Organisation named it the city with the worst air pollution in China.

Not exact matches

GENEVA, May 2 - India should follow China's example and clean up the air in its cities, which are among the world's worst for outdoor pollution, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

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The report also says that air pollution can affect the developing brains of children, make other health problems worse and sickness because of air pollution can keep children from attending school regularly, leading to other problems that are not physiological.

Air pollution is worst in Latin America and Asia.

Johnson's tenure as London mayor saw all the crises facing London grow worse, especially a spiraling housing crisis and inaction on the city's deadly air pollution.

«The worst thing that can happen, in many instances, is the hasty passage of a law or laws for the control of a given air pollution situation,» Vance Jenkins, executive secretary of the Smoke and Fumes Committee, said in a 1954 trade journal article about smog pollution.

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

They found that hailstorms over the eastern United States peak in the middle of the week, when summertime air pollution is at its worst.

This wearable device reveals exposure to the three worst pollutants, linking it with online maps to help you avoid poor air, a bit like a Fitbit for pollution

Despite debate over how many «deaths» air pollution causes, it is clear bad air damages our health, so attempts to delay rules on reducing it must be resisted

«Above all, we do not want to create the impression that walking to school is bad for children's health because the opposite is true: walking or cycling to school, which builds physical activity into the child's daily routine, has health benefits that far outweigh any negative impact of air pollution» explains Jordi Sunyer, head of ISGlobal's Child Health Programme and co-author of the study.

«We don't think that air pollution from diesel vehicles is the main reason for this decline, but our latest work suggests that it may have a worse effect on the flower odours needed by bees than we initially thought.

In addition to trading greenhouse gases, Evolution helps broker deals for biofuels, natural gas, the uranium fuel for nuclear reactors, renewable energy credits, air pollution permits for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, even insurance against bad weather.

With more than 70 percent of China's energy coming from coal, a power source that contributes heavily to air pollution and global warming, the nation's bad or good energy practices in buildings will be reflected in the color of the sky and the temperature of the Earth.

This issue is worst in the winter, when — according to research from Princeton University — air pollution in these regions blocks about 20 percent of sunlight from reaching solar panel arrays, on average.

«Air pollution by wildfires is some of the worst that people will experience in their lives, and there may be times when everyone in a region could feel it,» Henderson says.

The more people are exposed to air pollution and pollen, the worse their symptoms are, and the more likely they are to develop additional allergies.

Her assumption was that if air pollution is bad for mothers and infants, it's worse in communities where mothers and infants are poor.

«Air pollution is so obviously bad for lungs, heart, and other organs that most of us have never considered its effects on the developing brain.

You can think of casting a «bad» vote as being a bit like air pollution, he says.

That's why many joke that the national bird of China has become the construction crane — and why Beijing's air pollution remains so bad that it can be difficult to see more than three blocks through the dull gray haze that irritates the eyes and provokes the nose and throat.

Michael Le Page discusses combating air pollution from cars, but doesn't mention that air pollution inside cars is worse than...

But according to the American Lung Association (ALA), even though air quality around the country is improving overall, some 175 million Americans — 58 percent of the population — still live in places where pollution levels can cause breathing difficulties or worse.

«The air pollution in eastern China can be so bad you can't clearly see across the street.

Air pollution in cities may not be as bad for trees as that in rural areas, a new study suggests.

However, «at some point, the air pollution is so bad, and the sky is so saturated, you don't even see the sun clearly anymore,» Nizkorodov says.

New Jersey's air pollution used to be worse, Schwartz notes.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

Air quality tends to get worse at higher temperatures, and that air pollution itself can take a toll on the heart and vascular system, Dr. Newman saAir quality tends to get worse at higher temperatures, and that air pollution itself can take a toll on the heart and vascular system, Dr. Newman saair pollution itself can take a toll on the heart and vascular system, Dr. Newman says.

They blame mainly environmental and air pollution, but rarely point their finger at the bad diet.

«Stress alone does not provoke or make asthma worse, unless it is in conjunction with other known risk factors such as traffic - related air pollution,» he says.

The researchers found that due to the confined cabin space, with the worst ventilation conditions, as well as in peak contamination, that the evidence indicates that smoking in cars produces fine particle pollution concentrations which are very rarely found in studies on air quality.

What I didn't know, until recent years, is that indoor air pollution can be worse.

Because the air pollution is so bad.

Reduce Inflammation --(NO / ONOO Cycle)-- Toxic inflammation is produced from 3 main sources: overconsumption of refined sugar and grains, bad fats and toxins from food sources, cosmetics, air pollution, toxic cleaning products and more.

According to some research, loneliness may be worse for longevity than obesity or air pollution.

Indoor air pollution, including school buildings, can be even worse.

It's little known that indoor air pollution can be eight times worse than outdoors and even in newer schools, the trend in construction techniques towards tightly sealed buildings acts to trap damaging contaminants inside for longer.

This includes installing air pollution monitors to show when toxic air is worst and what measures could be the most effective to tackle the problem.

EPA air - pollution ratings for the V - 8 are between 6 and 7 out of 10 (with 10 being the cleanest), as well as 6 out of 10 for the 3.6 - liter V - 6 — not bad for a thirsty V - 8.