It supports EPA efforts and activities to monitor air quality levels, estimate population exposure to air pollutants, examine
the effects of air pollution on public health, track progress in improving air quality and reducing associated risks, and provide models, tools, and technical guidance to states.
The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on human health include
the effects of air pollution on increased respiratory disease, the spread of vector - borne illnesses like cholera, malaria, and dengue fever due to changing weather patterns, and compromised agricultural production and food security leading to greater malnutrition.
From the American Geophysical Union: WASHINGTON, DC — Humans may have been altering Arctic sea ice longer than previously thought, according to researchers studying
the effects of air pollution on sea ice growth in the mid-20th Century.
Abstract - Short - term
effects of air pollution on mortality have been well documented in the literature worldwide.
«This will help inform public policy and conservation planning and open the door to new and exciting research on
the effects of air pollution on non-human animal species.»
The harmful
effects of air pollution on the human body are well documented, from causing brain damage to increasing the risk of heart attacks, but it turns out that it can put people under the weather in more ways than one.
While the negative
effects of air pollution on human respiratory systems is well known, researchers from Ohio State University suspected that inhaling particulate may have some unexpected consequences that go much deeper.
The harmfull
effects of air pollution on the human body are well documented, from causing brain damage to increasing the risk of heart attacks, but it turns out that it can put people under the weather in more ways than one.
Study after study into
the effects of air pollution on the human body has turned up a grim laundry - list of associated ills — such as increased risks of stroke, heart attack, and lung disease — and now, according to the latest research, it may actually be doing harm to our brains as well, ultimately leading to learning problems and even depression.
Huge thanks to @antoinecosse, London based cartoonist and illustrator, for helping us to raise awareness about
the effects of air pollution on children.
In addition, the work of Kalkbrenner and her colleagues, building on previous studies, showed that women in the third trimester of pregnancy were more susceptible to the damaging
effects of air pollution on their unborn child.
By relying on this well - validated prediction model, the team was able to include subjects who live in unmonitored and less - populated areas so that
the effects of air pollution on all 60 million people could be analyzed regardless of whether they lived in urban, suburban, or rural areas.
This latest research is part of continuing studies into
the effects of air pollution on bees.
«The many adverse
effects of air pollution on human health support continued efforts to reduce this burden.»
Clinical
effects of air pollution on the central nervous system; a review.
Countless studies have shown
the effect of air pollution on cardiovascular and respiratory health — killing millions each year.
We examine
the effect of air pollution on school absences using administrative data for elementary and middle school children in 39 of the largest school districts in Texas merged with air quality
Not exact matches
She is currently involved in two new studies — one probing the
effects of air pollution and the other examining the synergistic
effects of smog and diet
on respiratory well - being.
Existing research has often highlighted the adverse
effects of air pollutants
on lung function in school - age children and adolescents, but the
effects of a mother's exposure to
pollution on the lung function
of her unborn child and shortly after birth are less well known.
«Although the link between traffic - related
air pollution and left ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, and cardiovascular death is established, the
effects of traffic - related
air pollution on the right ventricle have not been well studied,» said lead author Peter Leary, MD, MS,
of the University
of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.
«We will be conducting extensive testing
of our athletes to evaluate the
effect of Beijing's
air pollution on lung function,» he says.
«In the years to come, we're going to have major increases in all types
of chronic illnesses,» he continued, ticking them off
on his fingers, «in respiratory illnesses, in heart disease, in increases in heart attacks and strokes because
air pollution increases blood clotting, and in its
effects on developing fetuses — there is so much fallout from
air pollution.
Research
on coal burning in China offers powerful evidence
of air pollution's
effect on public health
Ilina Krishen became aware
of the dangers
of smoking and chemical
air pollution when she saw the
effects of lung disease
on family members.
The researchers hope an added bonus could be understanding how pollutants are transported and transformed as
air is pushed along the tropics, which could have a direct
effect on people living downwind
of major
air pollution sources.
The negative
effect of imported
pollution on the US's ability to achieve its
air quality goals is not wholly unexpected, according to Owen Cooper, a senior research scientist at the University
of Colorado and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, who is familiar with the current study but not directly involved.
She cited the
effect of air pollution control laws
on independent truckers and small farmers.
«
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.
In 2013, the science committee subpoenaed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over communications related to a controversial study
on the health
effects of air pollution known as the Harvard Six Cities Study.
The study is the most detailed assessment to date
of the interwoven
effects of climate policy
on the economy,
air pollution, and the cost
of health problems related to
air pollution.
Amid demands for greater transparency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has responded to a subpoena from a congressional committee for decades - old data
on the health
effects of air pollution.
The four - year study is the first real - world trial looking at the
effects of human behavior at the pump
on urban
air pollution.
And she goes
on to say that even though the size
of the
effect seems relatively small, the ubiquitous nature
of ambient
air pollution exposure suggests that exposure to it might have considerable impact
on stillbirth risk at the population level.
He then simulated the
effect of long - term exposure to increased
air pollution (
of 10 micrograms
of small particles per cubic meter)
on mortality.
By using climate models to simulate what
air pollution was like in 1850 and 2000, Jason West at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his colleagues have estimated its
effect on current death rates.
Much
of her work has examined this environmental justice question in the context
of ambient
air pollution and indoor chemical exposures, prenatal exposures and
effects on birth outcomes and children's health, often using community - based participatory research approaches for data collection and risk communication.
The degree
of air pollution in China exceeded that in most
of the world, yet assessments
of total health
effects must also include other fossil fuel caused
air and water pollutants, as discussed in the following section
on ecology and the environment.
This study added to the growing body
of research
on air pollutions effect on the heart.
Toxins could be alcohol, processed food,
air pollution, refined sugar, medicines, chemicals from cleaners, insert anything you can think
of that sounds like it would have a negative
effect on the body.
Mercury — studies show that mercury from
pollution (coal burning plants are the biggest source
of mercury
pollution to
air and water) and from fish that are high
on the food chain such as tuna, shark, swordfish, tilefish, etc can possibly cause long term negative
effects on your brain.
The
effect on pregnancy may in some ways be an extension
of those
effects as
air pollution disrupts the way a pregnant woman delivers oxygen to the fetus.
In this capacity he has invested a great deal
of time and effort
on clinical trials examining the
effects of broccoli sprouts (which contain phytochemicals extremely closely related to those found in moringa) in protecting against cancers, COPD, asthma, autism, schizophrenia,
air pollution injury, and other diverse conditions.
This evening, beginning with Earth, Wind & Fire at 7 / 6C, the Documentary Channel will be
airing five consecutive hours
of documentaries that deal with alternative power sources; the
effect of pollution on nature; the encroachment
of development
on the Amazonian rain forest, and the possibility
of demand exceeding production
of «cheap oil.»
We wanted to hear their views
on the matter, as they are some
of the most susceptible to the adverse
effects of air pollution, which can lead to poor lung and brain development and asthma if exposed for long periods
of time at a young age.
This one is really a red flag: «this paper provides evidence
of a composite
effect» (combined
air and water
pollution)
on infant health» (page 6).
As the alternative ignition technique reduces particulate
pollution from a single fire by an average
of 87 %, the
effect on levels
of indoor
pollution and ambient
air pollution is dramatic.
At the same time, the workshop will also address the negative health
effects of air pollution, rightly noting that «there is now an immense body
of evidence
on how
air pollution harms health.»
Beyond the
effects on climate discussed below, these include
air pollution, acid rain, marine and freshwater eutrophication, biodiversity loss, and the stimulation
of some invasive species.
How about if the
effects of both
air pollution and greenhouses
on the climate are minuscule?
Health - related costs
of the current
effects of ozone
air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based
on a U.S. assessment
of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 to 2002.153,154