Sentences with phrase «impact on air pollution»

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ROBIN BOLTON Water, air and noise pollution, the loss of resources through spills or leaks, along with accidents and the impact on surrounding communities, are repercussions of not identifying risks timeously

«My views against expanding Heathrow, particularly on the impact of noise and air pollution on local residents and the weak economic case, are long - held and well - known.

More work is needed, he added, to understand how «hard driving» is having an affect on air quality and further evidence is required as to the impact the country's existing fleet of vehicles is having on pollution levels.

Dr Kilbane - Dawe said that the impact of air pollution on health has only begun to be fully understood within the last five to 10 years.

As a nature enthusiast and bird - watcher who also is afflicted by asthma, she is concerned about air pollution and the impact humans are having on the global environment.

«Our earlier study showed the weathering impact of air pollution on the building materials such as limestone, sandstone and carbon steel, used in many heritage buildings and built infrastructure.

BEIJING (Reuters)- China's Health Ministry will set up a national network within five years to provide a way of monitoring the long - term impact of chronic air pollution on human health, state media said on Monday.

China's Health Ministry will set up a national network within five years to provide a way of monitoring the long - term impact of chronic air pollution on human health, state media said on Monday.

Nevertheless, the study highlights air pollution's potential impact on human health in more ways than we currently know, Kan said.

It enables us to estimate the impact on regional air pollution emissions, as well as how much land area and water consumption would be needed for each scenario.

Moms Clean Air Force zeroes in on lawmakers at all levels of government, bringing personal stories of pollution's impact — from children suffering because of asthma to lead poisoning.

This is the first time that a team of scientists has studied the potential impact on cognitive development of exposure to air pollution in children who walk to school.

Maternal psychological distress combined with exposure to air pollution during pregnancy have an adverse impact on the child's behavioral development, according to researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.

That work, published online in Environmental Health Perspectives on May 4, found that living near toxic sites leads to health impacts comparable to all the combined malaria issues in those three countries, or as much as the total negative impacts of air pollution.

Researcher Peter Homyak is seen here collecting a lake sediment core to study the impacts of air pollution and climate change on alpine lakes of the Sierra Nevada.

Dr Anna Hansell, lead author of the study, from the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment and Health at Imperial, said: «Air pollution has well established impacts on health, especially on heart and lung disease.

Air pollutant emission inventories are essential in measuring the impact of pollution on air quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the futuAir pollutant emission inventories are essential in measuring the impact of pollution on air quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the futuair quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the future.

International trade in goods and services has a bigger impact on shifting the health burden of air pollution than atmospheric flows, a new study finds.

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.

The evidence is pretty compelling that something is going on with air pollution and autism,» says Kalkbrenner, who adds that further study is needed to determine the neurodevelopmental impacts of specific chemical pollutants during precise developmental windows.

Prof Piers Forster, professor of physical climate change at the University of Leeds and author of a recent paper on the impact of wood burning in the UK on air pollution, says the type of cookstove is a factor, too.

It conducts interdisciplinary, peer - reviewed studies related to air pollution and greenhouse gases in China, from root causes in the energy demands to power its economy, to the chemistry and transport of pollutants in the atmosphere, to their impacts on public health, to policies to protect air quality and limit climate change.

Havet added: «Our research reinforces the fact that air pollution levels found in Europe are still too high to preserve lung health, and the impact on health is likely to be even greater in other parts of the world with higher levels of pollution.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have received a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to better understand the impact of climate change on air pollution.

«There's a lot of research on how different kinds of environmental disasters — such as forest fires, hurricanes, air pollution, or heat waves — impact human health, but the most widespread natural disaster is drought,» said lead author Jesse Berman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale FE&S, in a press release.

The PEGASOS project will investigate the impacts of European air pollution on climate change and vice versa by combining field measurements with state of the art atmospheric and climate models.

Oct. 3, 2017 - A recent study by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and collaborators is the first to use an ensemble of global chemistry climate models to estimate death rates from air pollution caused by the impact of climate change on pollutant concentrations.

Analysis of the impact was made [140] using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on mortality and air pollution in any developing country.

the impact on local communities where drilling takes place with respect to traffic, noise and air pollution.

The organic farmers who produce our ingredients minimize agriculture's impact on the environment, working to conserve the earth's precious resources, and reduce soil, air and water pollution.

Each choice has an impact on overall air and water pollution, toxic waste accumulation, and global climate change.

Failure to act now on high levels of air pollution has the potential to have a detrimental impact on children's health.»

The report concludes that China's increased engagement with the UN process stems from a drive to address serious environmental impacts in its own country, on climate change and air pollution, as well as a desire to demonstrate true geopolitical leadership.

Air pollution is invisible, but it can have a very damaging impact on the health of Oxford residents, particularly the young and most vulnerable.

This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile.

Most recently, human - caused factors such as air, noise, light, and water pollution, climate change, and the introduction of invasive species are having a large impact on natural resources here.

As a starting point in reviewing procedures, I encourage leadership at the University of Texas Energy Institute and similar centers focused on energy, the environment and health to consider the structure of the 32 - year - old Health Effects Institute, which was created to conduct independent studies of health impacts of air pollution and is co-funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and the worldwide motor vehicle industry.

By continually hammering on climate change or global warming — a challenge for sure, but abstract and not immediate to most people's experience — we've disconnected from most people who have more immediate concerns; we've virtually stopped talking about the impacts of air and water pollution on their children's health, the psychological damage all of us experience when nature around us is destroyed, and so on.

Daniel Greenbaum, the president of the Health Effects Institute, a 32 - year - old research hub focused on the health impacts of air pollution, said this preliminary reaction:

On the other hand, so long as the land management agency is trying to suppress a wildfire, the pollution impacts from those wildfires can be excluded from the measurements of ambient air quality that are used to determine whether places such as the Central Valley are in compliance with the Clean Air air quality that are used to determine whether places such as the Central Valley are in compliance with the Clean Air Air Act

The «Clean Sky» initiative, reports Israel21c is the largest European research project ever and is designed to tackle global warming — with a budget estimated to reach over 1.6 billion Euros, the project «aims to radically improve the impact of air transport on the environment with the goal of eliminating environmental pollution by reducing greenhouse gases.»

Humans have made a great number of impacts on the land stretching from prevention of catastrophic wildfires, to Urban Heat Islands, to denuding the land, and pollution of the air and water.

A number of groups are working on various impacts of fracking, whether it's water issues, air pollution and other drilling impacts.

On the other side, organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Clean Air Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollutioOn the other side, organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Clean Air Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollutiAir Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollutioon emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollutiair pollution.

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

In each of these steps they used specific modeling tools and datasets to estimate the incremental impacts of RGGI on the following variables: generation (in megawatt - hours (MWh)-RRB- by power plants, air pollution emissions, air quality, and public health.

Tagaris, E., K. J. Liao, A. J. DeLucia, L. Deck, P. Amar, and A. G. Russell, 2009: Potential impact of climate change on air pollution - related human health effects.

A Spanish language public awareness brochure that explains the impacts of air pollution on health and the environment, the sources and impacts of four short - lived cliamte pollutants (black carbon...

Sections 243.1 - 243.4 of Article 243 of the Code, specifically: rate of the tax due on emissions of certain pollutants into the atmospheric air, caused by stationary sources of pollution; rates of the tax due on stationary sources» emissions into the atmospheric air of pollutants (compounds), which are not listed in Section 243.1 of this Article and are falling within a certain substance hazard category (except for carbon dioxide), shall be applicable subject to determined approximately safe impact levels of such substances» (compounds») impact on the atmospheric air of urban settlements; and rates of tax due on emissions of carbon dioxide

The report shows UNICEF Mongolia's focus on generating evidence to raise public awareness on the impact of air pollution on child health and its contribution to the development of mitigation measures.