Sentences with phrase «by air pollution»

It will reduce the number of serious illnesses and deaths caused by air pollution from coal - fired power stations.

Her work shows cyclists are particularly vulnerable to the risks posed by air pollution — higher levels of breast and prostate cancer being among them.

Building a transport system fit for the future won't just save lives that are cut short by air pollution, it will change the way we live for the better.

Every day your face is bombarded by air pollution, sunlight, toxic chemicals in cosmetics, and also free radicals inside your body.

When we use more clean energy, we also pay less to treat kids suffering from asthma attacks caused by air pollution from coal plants.

The group then integrated four different models for industrial and agricultural emissions, production and consumption patterns, the atmospheric transport of pollution, and the number of premature deaths likely caused by air pollution in different regions.

Protect the «least of these» by prioritizing investments in communities most harmed by air pollution and climate change threats, and ensure a just transition for workers who rely on fossil fuel jobs.

Wind farms save lives by displacing the coal - fired power that causes thousands of deaths and serious illnesses in Australia each year by its air pollution.

«We also found that children born to older mothers were at higher risk of being impacted by air pollution exposure.

These changes, along with the significantly higher blood pressure, insulin resistance and biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress found among people exposed to higher levels, could be partly responsible for the adverse cardiovascular effects caused by air pollution exposure, researchers said.

VW's boss Paul Willis recently predicted a possible drop in the UK to as low as 30 percent, driven by air pollution worries.

She is implying that since she is purely and simply an anti-wind campaigner she is under no obligation to know about climate change, ocean acidification or the great many people who are killed by air pollution from the burning of coal.

Children are at particular risk by air pollution because their lungs are still developing and because of that, they breathe in twice as fast.

«Disadvantaged neighborhoods have relatively high burdens of health problems like asthma and emphysema, which are exacerbated by air pollution, so a given amount of pollution will cause more of a health impact,» a department spokesman said by email.

FATAL FUMES The number of deaths caused by air pollution varies across the globe, researchers found using satellite data and a computer simulation.

Zhejang is one of China's richest provinces, and not among those hardest hit by air pollution.

The data were collected by air pollution monitoring campaigns, and included levels of nitrogen dioxide (a prominent air pollutant caused by traffic and cigarette smoking), coarse particles, and fine particles.

Then, the researchers ran 90,000 simulations representing various bees» foraging and movement patterns amid differing scent levels modified by air pollution and diluted by wind speeds.

«Iron dissolved by air pollution may increase ocean potential to trap carbon.»

Dr. Andersen hopes that this information will inform international institutions and policy makers that want to accurately account for deaths caused by air pollution due to fossil fuel consumption.

Rescuers search for survivors in the debris from the 2009 Jiweishan Mountain landslide, which may have been triggered by air pollution.

DuBay said he has seen birds in Beijing darkened by air pollution.

They're critical for preventing blocked pores in particular, but they can also protect you against acne induced by air pollution, excessive sunlight, cigarette smoke...

In Lima, Peru, plagued by air pollution, it's probably the former.

The Nov. 2 - 4 Vatican workshop titled «Health of People, Health of Planet and our Responsibility: Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health» will attempt to link up the health risks posed by air pollution with anthropogenic climate change driven by carbon emissions.

The sum is largely due to polluters not paying the costs imposed on governments by burning carbon fuels — including harm caused by air pollution as well as to people across the globe affected by the floods, droughts and storms being driven by climate change.

Prompted in large part by the air pollution problem, the Chinese leadership has begun to pivot away from coal by strengthening monitoring and enforcement to limit coal - fired power plant emissions, piloting CO2 emissions trading projects, accelerating expansion of renewables, and committing to CO2 reductions in the Paris climate agreement.

Again, the point here is that while a handful of companies whose profit margins are improved by being able to pollute may be hindered by air pollution controls, the economy at large sees substantial benefits from everybody else not having to breathe unhealthy air.

So I am personally affected by the air pollution in Birmingham, Alabama.

We'd likely have an increase in the 40,000 premature deaths already caused by air pollution in the UK.

It would be well worth paying higher prices for clean energy, but the fact is that renewable energy is similar in cost to filthy coal - fired energy (which, by the way, kills millions of people world - wide each year by its air pollution).

The text of AB 32 requires the state's Air Resources Board, the agency responsible for implementing the law, to maximize «additional environmental and economic co-benefits for California» and consider «localized impacts in communities that are already adversely impacted by air pollution» in its plan for cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

The Environmental Protection Agency is justified in taking action under the Clean Air Act, as it has so often before, to protect Americans from the harms posed by air pollution.

Renewable subsidies rise but coal subsidies remain stagnant, despite increased social costs to India's GDP driven by air pollution and health care expenses

Countries, states, cities, and companies are taking action, partly out of concern about climate change, but also because such action is in their own economic interest — either directly (through money - saving efficiency measures like LED street lights) or indirectly (by saving lives now cut short by air pollution).

It's an inflated version of a claim by the World Health Organization that 7 million people a year are killed by air pollution.

The authors speculate that the stronger association is a result of asthma typically developing at younger ages and that young children are more likely to spend time outdoors and be harmed by air pollution.

He shows no indication of caring about the ocean acidification that the burning of fossil fuels is causing, nor the many deaths and serious diseases caused by the air pollution from burning coal to generate power.

This is about 7 - 8 percent of the global health burden caused by air pollution.

«We have tens of thousands of deaths a year caused by air pollution, and that's not unusual,» Hammitt says.

«The shameful scale of the public health crisis London faces, with thousands of premature deaths caused by air pollution, must be addressed,» Khan said.

The neighborhood also has many older residents who are more vulnerable to health problems caused by air pollution, Stringer said.

The UK government's plan to ban the sale of diesel and petrol cars in two decades» time is no help for those affected by air pollution

Are certain groups disproportionately affected by air pollution?

Professor Robert F. Storey, corresponding author of the paper, said: «More than 3 million deaths worldwide are caused by air pollution each year.

But calculating the costs associated with premature death caused by air pollution is complex and has resulted in very different estimates: because of the different methodologies used, the cost of air pollution related to fossil fuel consumption is estimated to be three times higher in the US than the EU.