Sentences with phrase «global human exposure»
Funded through a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant, the new highly sensitive, laser - based instrument provides scientists with a method to more accurately measure global human exposure to mercury.
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«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades as a result of climate change, confirming that Arctic warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Methods: The team used new relationships between chronic mortality and exposure to fine particulates and ozone, global modeling methods and new future climate scenarios to simulate the co-benefits of global greenhouse gas reductions on air quality and human health.
The recent IPCC report has highlighted that India's high vulnerability and exposure to climate change and global warming will slow its economic growth, impact human health, and make poverty reduction and food security efforts more difficult.
From hazardous effects causing potential loss of life, injury, or other negative health impacts, to the potential exposure of social, economic, and infrastructure assets to adverse impacts, global warming places vulnerable human lives and systems in dangerous jeopardy.