Sentences with phrase «in less air pollution»

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Much less is known about the impact of environmental and psychological exposures, but some potential threats include: • Air pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetusAir pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetusair pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetuses.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

Existing research has often highlighted the adverse effects of air pollutants on lung function in school - age children and adolescents, but the effects of a mother's exposure to pollution on the lung function of her unborn child and shortly after birth are less well known.

The risk for children of mothers living in a high traffic air pollution area for NO2 during their second trimester was 30 % higher than those from less polluted areas.

In the Southeast air pollution that begins accumulating on Monday causes rainfall to, more or less, occur during the week, when there are the most particles in the aiIn the Southeast air pollution that begins accumulating on Monday causes rainfall to, more or less, occur during the week, when there are the most particles in the aiin the air.

Household air pollution is the fourth - highest - ranked risk worldwide, but of much less consequence in the United States and Canada, where it's ranked 24th and marked on the grid in coral green.

Many Olympians are also planning to live and train in South Korea, he says, which is in a similar time zone to Beijing and has similar heat and humidity conditions, but boasts much less air pollution than the Chinese city.

Senior author Francine Laden, ScD, Professor in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, added, «We are currently working to determine if individuals who make healthier lifestyle choices are less susceptible to the adverse impacts of air pollution, and to determine if similar patterns of susceptibility are seen in men.»

A study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that a Chinese policy is unintentionally causing people in northern China to live 3.1 years less than people in the south due to air pollution concentrations that are 46 percent higher.

Researchers studied the effects of fine particulate air pollution, which is made up of particles less than one ten - thousandth of an inch in diameter, or PM2.5.

(In the U.S., air pollution regulations would make it necessary to ship it to a refinery for final processing or blend it with a less aromatic gasoline.)

By relying on this well - validated prediction model, the team was able to include subjects who live in unmonitored and less - populated areas so that the effects of air pollution on all 60 million people could be analyzed regardless of whether they lived in urban, suburban, or rural areas.

The public is less confident about whether other energy sources are effective in minimizing air pollution:

This type of pollution refers to particles found in the air that are less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, or 1 / 30th the average width of a human hair.

They have called attention to more or less «evenly distributed errors» across Lomborgs treatment of population, food, forests, air pollution, acid rain, climate change, and biodiversity loss, among other topics errors including all of the types I identified in his energy chapter, and more even while acknowledging, as I did, that in this potpourri Lomborg manages to get a few things right.

Ozone seemed to stunt the trees: Saplings in rural areas, where there was less pollution but more ozone, were smaller than urban trees, which experienced dirtier air and lower ozone levels.

For comparison, the average Londoner loses four and a half months to air pollution, while the average resident of Manchester lives 3.3 years less than his / her counterpart in Harrow, North London.

The authors acknowledge, however, that these strategies would not be a unilateral win for health: less livestock could lead to poor nutrition in low - income countries, and better housing insulation could lead to health risks from factors such as more indoor air pollution.

The draft says their cooling effect is 40 per cent less than thought in 2007, suggesting this side effect of air pollution has been overstated.

The draft says their cooling effect is 40 per cent less than thought in 2007, suggesting this positive side effect of air pollution has been overstated.

Asia is now burning a billion tons of coal each year, causing air pollution that is reaching the United States in less than a week.

Efforts to improve irrigation in sun - scorched regions, or to replace sensitive crops with more resilient varieties, could be less effective if ozone pollution keeps dirtying the air.

In January, a study linked higher air pollution with behaviors that are less «prosocial,» a decline the study describes as giving less, cooperating and reciprocating less, and demanding more — which can affect both individual and group decision - making.

The investigators found that — pound for pound — particles from coal burning contribute about five times more to the risk of death from heart disease than other air pollution particles of the same size — less than one ten - thousandth of an inch in diameter (known as PM 2.5).

The underlying motivation varies from buyer to buyer and usually involves one or more of these objectives: diminishing the demand for foreign oil, potentially releasing less pollution and carbon, saving money on cost per mile, driving solo in carpool lanes and / or irritating friends and strangers with an air of superiority.

The tower, which was completed last year, is said to produce about 10 million cubic meters (353 million cubic feet) of clean air per day, with an average reduction in PM 2.5 (fine particulate matter measuring 2.5 microns or less in width) of 15 % in local air during periods of heavy pollution.

But a specially type of infrared photography has created a breakthrough in efforts to cut pollution from the expanding oil and gas industry, resulting in reduced greenhouse gas emissions, less local air pollution and less wasted natural gas.

In Session 3, entitled «Consume Less Create More,» the steps in the life cycle of ballpoint pens is broken out from production to disposal, or as some say from womb to tomb: the oil drilling for the plastic, the mining for the metal, the chemicals for the ink, the factories for production, the trucks for transport to market and ultimately to the landfill and the resulting air, ground, and water pollution that accompanies each steIn Session 3, entitled «Consume Less Create More,» the steps in the life cycle of ballpoint pens is broken out from production to disposal, or as some say from womb to tomb: the oil drilling for the plastic, the mining for the metal, the chemicals for the ink, the factories for production, the trucks for transport to market and ultimately to the landfill and the resulting air, ground, and water pollution that accompanies each stein the life cycle of ballpoint pens is broken out from production to disposal, or as some say from womb to tomb: the oil drilling for the plastic, the mining for the metal, the chemicals for the ink, the factories for production, the trucks for transport to market and ultimately to the landfill and the resulting air, ground, and water pollution that accompanies each step.

«There could be less pollution drifting into New York and other northeastern states» Right on the heels of the study saying that soot in the air might be more dangerous than previously thought comes some good news: «Judge Larry McKinney today issued a

There'd be less air pollution; motor vehicles are one of the biggest causes of smog and toxic pollutants in the air we breath.

With less pollution in the air and a more stable climate, the plan was projected to prevent 90,000 asthma attacks in children, 300,000 missed work and school days, and up to 3,600 premature deaths by 2030.

This map provides near real - time information on particulate matter air pollution less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5).

In the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricitIn the short term gas - fired power stations could be used to «fill the gaps» when renewable energy was not available (gas has about half the greenhouse emissions of coal, and produces far less other air pollution); in the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricitin the longer term Australia could change to 100 % renewables - generated electricity.

Compared to our childhood days, you and I now pay more to operate our cars (the extra pollution controls on them; lead - free gas) and in return we get less air pollution.

Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).

I have already made it clear elsewhere that the additional resistor effect of human CO2 would be insignificant in relation to that from the rest of the air and the oceans together with the varying solar and oceanic heating and cooling effects but we still need to know for sure whether it is significant at all over periods of less than several hundred years because that may be the time we need to solve our energy, pollution, resource and population problems.

In less than two minutes, the HEPA filtration system had scrubbed the air in the Passivhaus, bringing pollution levels from an extremely dangerous 1,000 µg / m3 to levels so low as to be undetectable (below the noise floor) by the instruments, allowing the test scientists to remove their gas masks and breathe fresh air while sitting inside a biome full of pollutioIn less than two minutes, the HEPA filtration system had scrubbed the air in the Passivhaus, bringing pollution levels from an extremely dangerous 1,000 µg / m3 to levels so low as to be undetectable (below the noise floor) by the instruments, allowing the test scientists to remove their gas masks and breathe fresh air while sitting inside a biome full of pollutioin the Passivhaus, bringing pollution levels from an extremely dangerous 1,000 µg / m3 to levels so low as to be undetectable (below the noise floor) by the instruments, allowing the test scientists to remove their gas masks and breathe fresh air while sitting inside a biome full of pollution.

Investment in coal - fired plants fell sharply, with nearly 20 gigawatts (GW) less commissioned, reflecting concerns about local air pollution and the emergence of overcapacity in some markets, notably China, though investment remained elevated in India.

When asked if specific health problems will become more or less common over the next 10 years in their community due to global warming, more than one third of Americans think the following conditions will become more common: air pollution, including smog (38 %); pollen - related allergies (38 %); asthma / other lung diseases (37 %); heat stroke (36 %); and bodily harm from severe storms and / or hurricanes (34 %).

«The mean annual concentration of fine suspended particles of less than 2.5 microns in diameter is a common measure of air pollution,» the WHO states.

The scientific consensus is that pollution controls enacted through the Clean Air Act Amendments in the 1990s and other measures have helped decrease the acidity of rain by approximately 60 percent to less harmful levels, as reflected in data gathered nationwide and by UD researchers in Lewes, Del., as part of a longstanding study.

Wind was by far the most promising, Jacobson said, owing to a better - than 99 percent reduction in carbon and air pollution emissions; the consumption of less than 3 square kilometers of land for the turbine footprints to run the entire U.S. vehicle fleet (given the fleet is composed of battery - electric vehicles); l the savings of about 15,000 lives per year from premature air - pollution - related deaths from vehicle exhaust in the United States; and virtually no water consumption.

We'd all be saving money at the pump, we'd be producing less air pollution and greenhouse gas, Detroit would be in a stronger competitive position and the «Big Three» may not have lost so many more jobs.

Further highlighting the urgency of the issue in China, new research from Tsinghua University found that an estimated 670,000 premature deaths from four diseases - strokes, lung cancer, coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - were linked to air pollution, especially particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less (a.k.a. PM 2.5).

Thanks to an alchemy of the records, writes Andrews, not only did a majority of «Blue Sky» days last year fall exactly — and suspiciously — on or under the 100 mark: Beijing has also in recent years moved its air sampling stations to areas with less traffic and industry to create the appearance of less pollution.

Additional measures to achieve the interim targets of the thematic strategy on air pollution would cost less than $ 3 per person in 2020, or less than one eurocent per day.

Paper products made from recycled material use 40 percent less energy and water being manufactured which in turns creates far less air, land, and water pollution.