Sentences with phrase «to harm human health»

Rising CO2's effect on crops could also harm human health.

And, thanks to strict testing of seafood, the radiation should not harm human health.

But our modern love of light - filled nights casts a long shadow — wasting energy, disrupting ecosystems, and in some cases harming human health.

1.4 Public health professionals have an obligation to prevent climate change from harming human health, to the extent possible.

Besides harming human health and agriculture, these hot, dry conditions could lead to more droughts and wildfires in the near future, he said.

Climate change clearly harms human health in many ways.

«On August 9, one day after purchasing [between $ 1000 and $ 15,000 of] stock in global giant Japan Tobacco, she toured the CDC's Tobacco Laboratory, which researches how the chemicals in tobacco harm human health,» Politico reported.

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, adds to growing evidence showing how even low levels of air pollution harm human health.

The report says that «global warming is more likely to improve rather than harm human health because rising temperatures lead to a greater reduction in winter deaths than the increase they cause in summer deaths.»

During the discussions, Zucker displayed numerous scientific papers that he said highlighted how multiple facets of shale gas production, including drilling, trucking, and wastewater disposal, could potentially harm human health.

The newly minted MRSA strain is an important reminder that overuse of livestock antibiotics could seriously harm human health, says microbial expert Lance Price of George Washington University, who was part of the research team.

Nutrient pollution in bodies of water harms human health and the economy.

Though the rise in GMOS has led some to decrease their consumption of corn and corn - based products, there is no evidence that GMO corn harms human health, and most of us are perfectly comfortable enjoying it.

But combatting climate change produces real benefits — in the present — by reducing emissions from power plants that directly harm human health.

Pollution from the coal life cycle harms human health and the environment.

As established in the 2016 U.S. Climate and Health Assessment — The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment — the resulting changes in our climate are creating conditions that harm human health through extreme weather events, reduced air and water quality, increases in infectious and vector - borne diseases, and other mechanisms.

Through UNFCCC's Momentum for Change, local champions will be honored for their community - level work to solve environmental problems that also harm human health.

619), which if enacted would withdraw from food animal production the routine use of seven classes of antibiotics vitally important to human health unless animals are diseased or drug companies can prove that their use does not harm human health.

Researchers from Boston University and Harvard analyzed health data from over 30,000 women and found that menstrual cycle irregularity correlates with increasing rates of air pollution, another unanticipated way that climate pollution harms human health.

By communicating the potential of global climate change to harm human health in communities across America, and by conveying the potential to improve human health through actions that limit climate change, we can enhance public understanding of the full scope of the problem, and help enable appropriate responses by individuals and communities.

Environmental groups have cautioned that drilling for natural gas in New York will pollute water sources, increase reliance on fossil fuels and harm human health.

The question is: did all those toxicants — whether dust particles or air pollution — harm human health?

Nutrient pollution in bodies of water — too much nitrogen or phosphorous, for example — harms human health and the economy.

Clean energy policies decrease not only carbon pollution linked to climate change but also other types of pollution that harm human health, such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and fine particles that can damage the airways of humans and other organisms.

«Unwittingly, people improved life for chickens but harmed human health,» he says.

EPA had also set out a separate finding in 2015 as part of the new source rule for power plants, specifically stating that the facilities contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, harming human health.

But the techniques rely on chemical fertilizer and pesticides, which can harm human health, water quality, and wildlife.

That smog can harm human health.

Developed last year, this relatively new certification for nonfood items like household products, skin care, cleaners, etc., names a product safe when third - party scientists find that it's free of chemicals thought to harm human health (meaning no carcinogens, endocrine disrupters, fire retardants, or VOCs allowed).

The MADE SAFE ™ seal is an independent third - party verification that screens products for toxic chemicals that are known to harm human health.

The module contains six standards - based lessons that focus on the science of toxicology and introduce students to the ways scientists learn about and measure how chemicals can both help and harm human health.

The $ 30 million overhaul was made without installing, as required under the New Source Review requirements of the Clean Air Act, the best available technology to minimize emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — pollutants that harm human health by contributing to heart attacks, breathing problems, and other health problems, the suit alleges.

Diesel trucks and buses generate a disproportionate share of harmful emissions that harm human health — particularly in disadvantaged communities.

In what specific ways does the public believe climate change will harm human health?

«Global warming is more likely to improve rather than harm human health,» according to a new study published by three non-profit climate research organizations.

A new study by three non-profit climate research organizations has claimed that global warming is more likely to «improve rather than harm human health.»

We are creating conditions friendly to insects that invade our forests and harm human health.

Within months, the Sierra Club [led by Michael Blume, left photo] launched its «Beyond Natural Gas» campaign that claims: «Increasing reliance on natural gas displaces the market for clean energy and harms human health and the environment in places where production occurs.»

«We're excited to see Senators Nelson, Portman and Cantwell introduce this strong bipartisan legislation to address a growing problem that destroys ocean habitat, harms human health, decimates coastal economies and kills countless marine animals.»

The new assessment makes a point of focusing on how climate change is harming human health, noting that extreme weather, more wildfires, decreased air quality, insect - borne diseases, and food - and waterborne diseases are likely to endanger children and the elderly most of all.

Environmental groups have cautioned that drilling for natural gas in New York will pollute water sources, increase reliance on fossil fuels and harm human health.