Sentences with phrase «less pollution from»

There should be less pollution from slow - moving trucks.

As a result, our waterways experience less pollution from farm run - off.

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Smoking one cigarette a week is likely far less damaging then breathing in some of the pollution and toxins many people are exposed to daily in the streets or even from carpeting or textiles, but we don't stop traveling or decorating our homes now do we??

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 fetuses.

So billions of pounds are to be spent increasing emissions and increasing the number of people suffering from noise pollution, only for a few hundred million to be spent making that situation slightly less worse than it might otherwise have been.

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.

The air pollution will impact the Romulus K - 12 public school which is less than a mile from the proposed incinerator.

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.

Indeed, the Clean Power Plan proposed by the Obama administration to clean up CO2 emissions from power plants relies on capture and storage to allow coal - fired power plants to continue to produce electricity, but with less climate - changing pollution.

Electric power generated by renewable energy sources causes substantially less pollution than energy generated from fossil fuels, the report says.

BEIJING (Reuters)- China has issued a «behavioural standards» guide to combat pollution and reduce environmental damage, urging people to do everything from walking and riding bicycles to buying goods with less packaging.

Based on their calculations, scientists concluded that within the area they found to have elevated pollution from the airport, automobiles contributed less than 5 percent of the PN levels.

The GHG reduction scenario emphasizes energy efficiency and shifts energy production and use away from highly polluting forms toward cleaner sources with less air pollution.

Analysis of the first seven years of data from a NASA cloud - monitoring mission suggests clouds are doing less to slow the warming of the planet than previously thought, and that temperatures may rise faster than expected as greenhouse gas pollution worsens — perhaps 25 percent faster.

Human - made pollution in eastern China's cities worsens when less dust blows in from the Gobi Desert, according to a new study published May 11 in Nature Communications.

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.

By farming insects, we could get more meat from the same amount of grain, use less land for agriculture and cut pollution.

To begin to mitigate the pollution causing climate change, cities around the world need to be made more efficient, adopting measures ranging from reducing the energy costs of sanitation to constructing buildings that waste less energy.

And although Alberta currently boasts a carbon price of $ 15 per metric ton, it is not enough — at less than a dollar per barrel — to keep greenhouse gas pollution from the tar sands in check.

But, according to Klaus Hubacek of the University of Maryland and colleagues, the richest and most sophisticated regions of China — those with the most stringent and specific pollution abatement targets — are buying manufactured goods from places like Inner Mongolia, a poorer region where targets are less constraining.

The translation is that the little bugs that make methane in swamps get out - competed by other bugs that like acid rain (which is related to sulphate aerosols — mainly from power stations)-- so more industrial pollution, less methane emission (everything else being equal).

These data indicate that under many atmospherically - relevant conditions SOA particles are significantly more viscous and orders of magnitude less volatile than assumed in traditional modeling approaches; SOA formation yields can be significantly higher than previously reported values; and anthropogenic pollution enhance loadings of SOA from biogenic precursors.

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 brand offers a wide range of clothes that all girls want to wear made from recycled fabrics, using resources that produce less pollution and less waste.

· Electricity generated from renewable sources causes 70 - 90 per cent less pollution harmful to ecosystems and human health than coal power.

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 translation is that the little bugs that make methane in swamps get out - competed by other bugs that like acid rain (which is related to sulphate aerosols — mainly from power stations)-- so more industrial pollution, less methane emission (everything else being equal).

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 step.

I appreciated the topical December 7 image in the release, especially because I was looking at how the BBC World Service «More or Less» trivialized and obscured a good recent paper by Rohde and others on the health effects of pollution (notably around Beijing)-- notably from particulate matter of less than 2.5 microns, eLess» trivialized and obscured a good recent paper by Rohde and others on the health effects of pollution (notably around Beijing)-- notably from particulate matter of less than 2.5 microns, eless than 2.5 microns, etc..

The leading experts predict that we have less than 10 years to make dramatic changes in our global warming pollution lest we lose our ability to ever recover from this environmental crisis.

It is an exploration of how humans, on the road toward a population of 9 billion, more or less, can limit losses from «slow drips» and «hard knocks» of all kinds — from indoor air pollution and diarrhea to asteroids and global warming.

From water conservation to less pollution to women's empowerment, a founder of Netafim explains why drip irrigation is the future of agriculture.

Because switching from coal to cleaner and more affordable energy would result in less coal mined, less coal burned, and less carbon pollution emitted, BLM's decisions do have a climate impact — and a big one at that.

Smokestack pollution from NGS also adds to smog haze in 11 national parks and wilderness areas surrounding the plant, including the Grand Canyon, which is less than 20 miles away.

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.

This past summer, a disconcerting new scientific study by the climate scientist Michiel Schaeffer and colleagues — published in the journal Nature Climate Change — suggested that no matter how quickly we cut this pollution, we are unlikely to keep the seas from climbing less than five feet.

Backers of plug - in hybrids acknowledge that the electricity to boost their cars generally comes from fossil fuels that create greenhouse gases, but they say that process still produces far less pollution than oil.

They are now allowing employees to work efficiently from home and the environmental proceeds of such work are clear as there aren't any energy eating offices and neither are their employees driving to work causing less traffic and pollution.

Gallup's trend data show that Republicans have become less likely to accept the idea of human contributions to global warming over the past half - decade — the percentage believing that global warming is due more to «the effects of pollution from human activities» has declined by 10 percentage points, from 52 % in 2003 to 42 % in 2008.

Health benefits may include: physical activity from walking and cycling, which can help prevent heart disease, some cancers, type 2 diabetes, and some obesity - related risks; lower urban air pollution concentrations; lower rates of traffic injury risks for users of dedicated bicycle and pedestrian networks; and less noise stress.

«Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles» found that even when accounting for the metals required to build PV cells, the efficiency of the cells, and the waste produced, PV cells still emit less global warming pollution throughout their life cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of power.

But over its full life cycle — from chicken feed to poop to energy — it produces electricity with much less global warming pollution, so it's better for the climate.

The pollution performance for other automakers has been less consistent, with Nissan taking over second place from Toyota due to reduced contributions to smog and global warming, Ford holding its position after making gains in MY01, and DaimlerChrysler moving out of last place for the first time in our rankings.

The reason: Since 2012, carbon pollution from the states» traditionally coal - heavy power sectors has dropped significantly, as new gas power plants have replaced older, less efficient coal plants.

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.

«There is significantly less known about how birds are affected by exposure to air pollution from other types of sources, such as motor vehicles.»

The authors say this «slowdown» was caused by a combination of natural ocean cycles, volcanoes going off, less energy coming from the sun and changes in the amounts of tiny particles in the atmosphere, mainly from industrial pollution.

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 pollution.

One is that they will enjoy tax incentives as a buyer of a hybrid car, two is that they will be able to save a lot of money from the rising cost of precious, expensive and limited supply of fuel and three, it will enable them to generate less pollution to the environment because of the extremely low toxic emissions generated by hybrid cars.cash for clothes