Sentences with phrase «home air pollution»

Interestingly, marijuana smoking contributed to in - home air pollution about as much as tobacco smoking — the first time such a finding has been reported.

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Those views are largely predicated on three factors: higher borrowing costs; increasing curbs on home buying to cool soaring prices; and government - mandated shutdowns of some steel mills and factories in coming months to reduce winter air pollution.

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Emissions from home and diaper service drying equipment contribute to air pollution.

Candles are a major source of airborne particles that contribute to air pollution inside homes.

Home fires, farm fumes are leading causes of air - pollution deaths.

The research team collected thousands of air pollution measurements in the study participants» communities and at their homes.

The pollution problem is not restricted to outdoor air, as families in developing countries also encounter pollution inside the home; according to Pinkerton, almost half the world prepares food with wood, charcoal or coal, all common sources of air pollutants.

«Air pollution exposure on home - to - school routes reduces the growth of working memory: Findings of an ISGlobal study underscore the importance of establishing school routes along less polluted streets.»

«Air pollution cuts 3 years off lifespans in Northern China: Innovative study finds a well - intentioned home heating policy contributed to higher pollution in Northern China, shaving years off hundreds of millions of lives..»

The Indonesian government has arrested executives from seven companies after air pollution from illegal forest fires forced thousands of people to flee their homes and schools had to be closed in neighbouring countries.

«The risk numbers we're talking about for that group are comparable to or greater than what we see for radon, which has been identified as the most dangerous hazard in homes in the country by far,» said Richard Corsi, a professor specializing in indoor air pollution at the University of Texas at Austin.

The researchers note that this study only looked at air pollution exposure at the participants» home address and did not have data on their exposure at other locations, and say that larger longitudinal studies are now needed to confirm their results.

The problem of air pollution started with the burning of coal in homes and factories.

Of more immediate concern is indoor air pollution, right in your own home.

Due to the fact cigarette smoking is a key driver of household air pollution, it's recommended having air cleaners even in households that are smoke - free if they tend to be part of multi-family homes through which 2nd - hand smoke could seep in via surrounding units.

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A Japanese study evaluated VOCs emitted from nine pieces of home furniture as potential sources of indoor air pollution.

Air pollution in major cities is well known but did you know that your own home can be more toxic?

It has been found that we are exposed to more toxins in the home then through air pollution.

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Reducing indoor air pollution, home and yard chemicals, and other sources of toxic exposure.

Sea Quest's whale watching kayaking tours do not contribute to the rising noise pollution, nor do they use nasty fuels that leave both air and water pollution in the whales home.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

Installing small solar systems on homes is often much less expensive than building a central power plant, with the added benefit of greatly reducing indoor air pollution from kerosene lamps.

The efforts to reduce air pollution in China range from the seemingly minor — asking residents to refrain from using coal stoves and furnaces in their homes — to the massive — scaling back steel production capacity by an additional 50 million tons.

Primitive cook stoves create indoor air pollution because homes are poorly ventilated and the dirty air sits in the home, breathed in by the occupants.

But the new filters provide clean drinking water without the need for combustion, which improves the air quality in their homes, conserves trees, and, of course, reduces greenhouse gas pollution.

A new study shows that air pollution from coal - burning home heating systems has shortened life expectancy in northern China by 5.5 years.

The World Health Organization estimates that millions die each year just from air pollution caused by the use of pre-modern energy sources in people's homes, such as open fires for cooking or heating.

EPA's Indoor airPLUS Program Indoor airPLUS labeled homes are designed and built to help protect families from indoor air pollution.

A single - family Passivhaus home was placed in a small biome contaminated with extreme levels of pollution (1,000 µg / m3 of PM2.5 vs. the EPA's «good» air quality index limit of 12 µg / m3).

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The result is improved air quality in the homes, conservation of trees and of course, reducing greenhouse gas pollution.

Thousands of Canadian homes and businesses are doing their part to address climate change and air pollution by switching to green energy with Bullfrog Power.

And even if you stomp your feet hard enough and get your way and all coal mining is eliminated, then the people of rural China and India will not receive electric power from central power plants and will burn locally mined coal and wood in their homes causing horrific air pollution and deforestation.

With water shortages and air pollution posing increasingly grave threats to the Middle East, artists in the region are working to make environmental issues more visible, both at home and in international

Besides retrofitting two - strokes in the Philippines, the environmental non-profit will also be collaborating with the U.K. - based Shell Foundation to reduce the number of global deaths caused by indoor air pollution — or more precisely, the smoke the billows forth from traditional fires and stoves used in homes in developing countries — by distributing cleaner - burning cook stoves.

For example, your home's electricity might seem clean because the air pollution is actually at the coal - fired power plant and not in your neighborhood, or the cheap single - use products that depend on horrible or toxic working conditions in another country, as well as the relatively cost - free (to the manufacturer and seller) disposal of those products.

These are things like voting to end mining regulations that protect people's homes from corporations» toxic dredge, that protect the water quality in rivers, that protect air pollution standards in cities.

Some residents of Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey's capital, already say that they're planning to burn coal or wood in their homes instead, sparking fears of a renewed air - pollution problem.

Winter typically brings the worst air pollution to northern China because of a combination of weather conditions and an increase in the burning of coal for homes and municipal heating systems, which usually start on a specific date.

Climate Reality is aware that the trainings may be distant from some attendees» homes and that event - related air travel is a contributor to carbon pollution.

And on top of the climate benefits, 100 million families would have healthier homes through reduced indoor air pollution.

But the researchers discovered that black carbon in the central Tibetan Plateau came primarily from biomass; meaning the daily routine of burning yak dung for cooking and home heating contributed significantly to the region's air pollution.

In addition to outdoor air pollution, indoor smoke is a serious health risk for some 3 billion people who cook and heat their homes with biomass, kerosene fuels and coal.

This information becomes even more critical when considering a new home if the purchaser has children or any health condition sensitive to air pollution.»

Air pollution at serious levels is often caused by traffic, heating for homes and businesses, industrial parks, or dangerous mold.

Be sure to air out your home or apartment, since indoor pollution appears to be a serious cause of conditions like asthma and emphysema.

After championing air pollution control measures and breakthrough employment discrimination protections, he introduced a housing bill in 1963 that would make it illegal to deny people the chance to buy or rent a home because of their race, among other classifications.