Sentences with phrase «caused outdoor air»

Researchers estimate that worldwide, more than two million deaths occur each year as a direct result of human - caused outdoor air pollution.

More than two million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of human - caused outdoor air pollution, a new study has found.

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«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.

«It causes repeated episodes of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness and nighttime or early morning coughing that can be set off by indoor or outdoor air pollution.

Other preventable causes of cancer include drinking alcohol, eating too little fibre (causing around 11,900 and around 11,700 cases respectively, which is 3.3 % each) and outdoor air pollution.

Not only can indoor and outdoor air pollution trigger asthma in susceptible children, Currie and Alexander noted — they can also cause women to have low - birth - weight babies in the first place.

An agency of the World Health Organization announced last fall that it now considers outdoor air pollution, especially particulate matter, to be carcinogenic, and cause other health problems as well.

«These results, however, are just associations and do not definitively indicate a cause - and - effect relationship between DED and outdoor air pollution.»

But it wasn't outdoor air causing the greatest risk; it was something much closer to home: A chemical, called p - dichlorobenzene, found in many inexpensive toilet deodorizers and moth repellents in bathrooms and closets.

Together, indoor and outdoor air pollution caused 5.5 million early deaths in 2013, the team concluded.

The widespread use and vast numbers of fragranced products can cause extensive indoor and outdoor air pollution.

Outdoor air pollution penetrating the building, such as vehicle exhaust fumes entering buildings next to busy roads, can be a cause, as can poor lighting and glare from computer screens and poor ventilation.

Cars race through outdoor cafés in Paris, France, crashing into tables, causing them to fly into the air, as well as jump over forklifts in the back alleys of Hong Kong.

Qiao Ma, a PhD student at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, found that outdoor air pollution from coal alone caused an estimated 366,000 deaths in China in 2013.

A study published in the journal Nature in September last year showed that outdoor air pollution is linked with 3.3 million premature deaths per year, which is more than those caused by AIDS and malaria making it the world's biggest single killer.

If GW causes the weather to get too hot for people to safely walk outdoors and so we will all be sitting inside on our duffs getting fat in front of the tv and air conditioner.

Supply ventilation will tend to pressurize an interior space relative to the outdoors, causing inside air to be forced out through leakage openings located randomly throughout the building envelope.

In mechanically cooled buildings in hot - humid climates, if interior negative pressure causes moisture - laden outdoor air to enter the building envelope, moisture can condense on cool surfaces, and, if restricted from drying to the inside, problems of material durability and indoor air quality can result.