Sentences with phrase «from outdoor pollution»

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Some researchers have pinned the blame on indoor air pollution and a study last year showed that when outdoor ozone levels rose, the number of people inside suffering from so - called «sick building syndrome» also increased.

Apart from reducing their personal contributions to outdoor pollution, there is not much that individuals can do about this unless they invest in systems to filter the air they breathe indoors.»

The annual death toll from outdoor air pollution could double to 6.6 million globally by 2050 without new antipollution measures, a new study suggests.

Co-author of the study, Jason West, from the University of North Carolina, said: «Our estimates make outdoor air pollution among the most important environmental risk factors for health.

An estimated 627,000 Indians die prematurely each year from outdoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease project.

Without action, annual premature deaths attributable to outdoor air pollution will increase to 4.5 million in 2040 from around 3 million currently.

Indeed, Ma reports, outdoor air pollution from coal was China's biggest source of particulate - related harm.

Even though outdoor air pollution can worsen the symptoms, indoor air pollution from household products, building materials (sometimes containing asbestos or formaldehyde), and tobacco smoke can be even more dangerous due to constant exposure.

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.

Indoor air pollution in a classroom can be a complex mixture of pollution created within the classroom and outdoor air pollution that seeps in from the outside.

Indoor air pollution has gotten a lot of press lately; it can be even worse than outdoor air pollution from cars, factories, and agriculture.

Will the air pollution from dirty vehicles that spoils anyone's walk here (or in India or China) continue its in your face expansion until the majority of Asians who travel outdoors (feet or two wheels) are driven to cars?

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.

Premature deaths worldwide from outdoor air pollution rise from 3 million today to more than 4 million in 2040 in the New Policies Scenario, even though pollution control technologies are applied more widely and other emissions are avoided because energy services are provided more efficiently or (as with wind and solar) without fuel combustion.

4.3 million people die prematurely because of exposure to household air pollution; 3.5 million people die prematurely every year from exposure to outdoor air pollution.

Black soot is generated from industrial pollution, traffic, outdoor fires, and household burning of coal and biomass fuels.

Many of the deaths were due to outdoor air pollution from coal fired power stations and many others were from indoor cooking fires using coal.

Under such a scenario, premature deaths from outdoor air pollution would decline by... Read more →

A working paper of the International Monetary Fund says 3 million people die yearly from coal (some due to indoor air pollution), and 3.7 million die yearly from outdoor air pollution.

I remember hearing anecdotally that here in NY NYSERDA had studied particulate emissions from outdoor woodboilers and concluded that one OWB could emit as much particulate pollution as something like 20,000 fuel oil boilers.

Ending the subsidies would also slash the number of premature deaths from outdoor air pollution by 50 % — about 1.6 million lives a year.