Sentences with phrase «by lead pollution»

And a recent report out of the town of Dongtang, which is located in China's major manufacturing region of Guangdong, has revealed that at least 160 local children there have been poisoned by lead pollution released from local factories.

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«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

«Unless action is taken to control outdoor air pollution, studies show that outdoor air pollution will become the leading cause of environment - related child death by 2050,» the report says.

Preston (1991), who values the economic efficiency of the market, nevertheless acknowledges that left to itself the market leads to great inequalities of wealth and is unable to cope with environmental degradation such as is caused by industrial pollution.

By Sean Ryan Wauwatosa residents want a guarantee from Waukesha planners that a water pipeline emptying into Underwood Creek will not lead to flooding and pollution.

Since its first boat patrol into Newtown Creek over eight years ago, Riverkeeper has established itself as the leading pollution enforcer on Newtown Creek, exemplified by its citizen suits against oil companies, cement manufacturers and other polluters.

Using data from 16 ice cores collected from widely spaced locations around the Antarctic continent, including the South Pole, a group led by Joe McConnell of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nevada, created the most accurate and precise reconstruction to date of lead pollution over Earth's southernmost continent.

Free radicals are compounds composed of unstable atoms generated both by the body and environmental sources such as smoking and pollution that damage cells, possibly leading to increased disease susceptibility and aging.

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.

The electric vehicles» benefits of reduced greenhouse gas emissions are countered by the expense and pollution from producing the vehicles, leading to debate on whether they are the best replacement for conventional vehicles.

An ambitious study led by San Diego State University researchers has investigated various factors that contribute to air pollution inside the house.

He found that the added air pollution caused by each degree Celsius increase in temperature caused by CO2 leads to about 1,000 additional deaths in the U.S. and many more cases of respiratory illness and asthma.

The region experienced similar smoke conditions caused by El Niño in 2006 but the Harvard - led team found that deaths from air pollution more than doubled between the 2006 and 2015 events, from about 38,000 to about 100,000.

According to the study, led by Robert Manning of the University of Vermont, 99 percent of the world's skies suffer from light pollution and two - thirds of Americans can't see the Milky Way from their homes.

Twenty years ago those activities contributed similar amounts of heavy - metal pollution but have since drastically cleaned up their acts, leaving power plants as the leading manmade source, by far, of mercury emissions in this country.

A team of scientists find in the Laguna de Rio Seco lagoon, at an altitude of 3,020 m., evidence of atmospheric pollution caused by lead and linked to metallurgical activities from 3,900 years ago (Early Bronze Age).

A curious detail also shown by the study is a reduction in atmospheric pollution from lead during the last few decades, which, as Lozano concludes, «suggests that the global measures taken to reduce lead emissions, such as the use of lead - free gasoline, have helped to reduce the levels of this metal in the atmosphere.»

The researchers, led by Sara Adar, John Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Joel Kaufman, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, found that higher concentrations of fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) were linked to a faster thickening of the inner two layers of the common carotid artery, an important blood vessel that provides blood to the head, neck, and brain.

Paper is damaged by light, humidity, microorganisms and pollution — all of which can lead to yellowing and browning.

«A new study authored by a research team led by Dr. Corrine Keet [sic] of John's Hopkins Children's Center [sic] has found no link between outdoor air pollution and childhood asthma,» Carducci wrote.

The research, led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and partners, has important implications for the long - term survival of coral reefs worldwide, which have been in worldwide decline from multiple stressors such as climate change and ocean pollution.

Exposure to air pollution early in a pregnancy could increase risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, according to a study led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, and published on July 27 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

The pollution of waterfowl meat and their poisoning by lead shot has dropped by 50 % since this type of munitions was prohibited in wetlands in 2001.

The report, written and reviewed by leading U.S. scientists as part of the National Climate Assessment, reinforces that warming temperatures and extreme weather around the globe are «extremely likely» to be the result of carbon pollution from human activities.

The study, led by researchers at Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), highlights the importance of maintaining domestic emission controls on motor vehicles, power plants and other industries at a time when pollution is increasingly global.

«It has long been thought that the algal blooms found in Lake Okeechobee, which are caused by pollution such as runoffs from farms, were solely responsible for driving the blooms and their toxins in the St. Lucie Estuary,» said Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch, who recently presented these findings at the ninth U.S. National Harmful Algal Bloom Conference.

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 data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), levels of all major air pollution contaminants (ozone, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter and lead) are down significantly since 1970; carbon monoxide levels alone dropped by more than 70 percent.

The new study, led by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and published in Global Change Biology, quantifies the reductions in climate pollution from the degradation and clearcutting of forests.

, a leading climate skeptic who opposes restrictions on carbon pollution, argued that the administration could harm the U.S. economy by enacting new regulations particularly given the skyrocketing emissions of China and India, Kerry was quick with a challenge.

National and state air pollution controls that went into effect in the early 1990s coincide with decreasing death rates from emphysema, asthma and pneumonia among people in North Carolina, according to a study led by Duke University researchers.

Rachel Buxton, lead author and post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology in the Warner College of Natural Resources, said the team was surprised by how prevalent noise pollution was in protected areas.

Led by PNNL, the cross-functional research team, working under a measurements - to - modeling paradigm, investigated the ice nucleating properties for different dust samples affected by another kind of pollution.

Focusing on aquatic systems, a team of scientists led by Dr. Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, recently warned that if current trends of over fishing and pollution continue, we face a worldwide seafood collapse by 2048.

Results: Over the past 50 years, air pollution in eastern China has reduced the amount of light rainfall by 23 percent, a team led by a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist has found.

The biggest patrons by far of stem cell research are the citizens of California — who have, over the years, led the country on health care issues from pollution standards to anti-tobacco legislation to bicycle helmets.

A fascinating and informative interview with William J. Rea, M.D., a pioneer and the leading researcher and clinician in the field of environmental medicine and chemical sensitivity, which is the treatment of illness caused by food and environmental factors as wide - ranging as such as pesticides, air and water pollution, solvents and formaldehyde, gas stoves, fragrances, and electromagnetic fields.

Environmental Illness A fascinating and informative interview from the John R. Lee, M.D. Medical Letter with William J. Rea, M.D., a pioneer and the leading researcher and clinician in the field of environmental medicine and chemical sensitivity, which is the treatment of illness caused by food and environmental factors as wide - ranging as such as pesticides, air and water pollution, solvents and formaldehyde, gas stoves, fragrances, and electromagnetic fields.

This vitamin C serum helps neutralize free radicals induced by UVA / UVB, infrared radiation (IRA), and ozone pollution (O3), which may lead to visible signs of accelerated skin aging.

Jeffrey R. Holmstead, a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani representing energy companies and other clients, who was formerly Mr. Bush's lead regulator of air pollution at the Environmental Protection Agency, said he thought Mr. Bush could have done a better job pointing out the high costs of climate bills being pushed by Senate Democrats and some moderate Republicans.

Ignoring this nutrient enrichment has already led to the fact that EPA failed to implement the Clean Water Act (the second largest, federally funded, public works program) due to an incorrect applied test, which resulted in ignoring the pollution caused by nitrogenous (urine and protein) waste in sewage and still allows rivers to be used as giant urinals.

With particularly low scores for biodiversity / habitat and air pollution, the country came in 77th out of 163 nations on a list led by Iceland and ending with Sierra Leone.

According to the study, led by Robert Manning of the University of Vermont, 99 percent of the world's skies are victim to light pollution.

An estimated 8 million people worldwide die due to air pollution while climate change is linked to over 3.5 million deaths and will lead to a possible 23 % loss in average global income by the end of the century.

The introduction of machines powered by cheap and easily accessible fossil fuels led to a decline in the use of wind power, but since reserves of these fuels are finite and as the world becomes more conscious of the pollution generated by these fuels, focus has turned once again to tapping this free source of energy.

And here are just a few other «side effects» of mining on public lands in the West: cyanide spills; wildlife habitat destruction and fish kills caused by poisoned waters; and water pollution caused by acid mine drainage, which leaches potentially toxic heavy metals like lead, copper, and zinc from rocks.

In the 1980s, tradable - permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline -(at a savings of about $ 250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone - depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the 1990's, tradable permits were used to implement stricter air pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costs).

In a future in which the Environmental Protection Agency could be led by Scott Pruitt — a denier of climate science who has opposed efforts to reduce air and water pollution and combat climate change — these disparities will only get worse.

«Today, California steps forward to lead the nation in environmental protection by banning this pervasive source of plastic pollution.