Sentences with phrase «low air pollution levels»

Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects of different types of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning policies.

Not exact matches

China has been known for having low - quality air in their major cities, but the levels of pollution are reaching numbers that are more alarming than ever.

The better the grade of oat the better the taste, and since Provena grow their oats in the middle of the Finnish countryside (known for having one of the lowest levels of air pollution in Europe); they give their oats the best shot of becoming wonderful!

But in humid places with relatively low background air pollution levels, such as over the Amazon, supersaturation is common, she says.

A new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than in those with lower levels of PM2.5.

«Standards in the United States have gotten tighter because we've learned that ever - lower levels of air pollution affect health, especially in babies and the elderly,» Jaffe says.

Along with air pollution, smoking, low vitamin D levels, growing up in an urban environment and eating a lot of meats and sugars have all been implicated as risk factors for bowel diseases.

«This study shows that although we think air quality in the United States is good enough to protect our citizens, in fact we need to lower pollution levels even further,» said Schwartz.

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.

Funded by a multinational partnership led by UMass Amherst and including the Himalayan region's Intergovernmental Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, the investigation will follow a cohort of 32 traffic control officers in Kathmandu during two seasons: Cold, dry winter from this month into March, with a second study in the hot, rainy monsoon season from June to August, when air pollution levels are lower.

In a study of 6,654 middle - aged and older U.S. adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds, participants living in areas with high levels of traffic - related air pollution tended to have lower HDL levels.

Traffic - related air pollution may increase cardiovascular disease risk by lowering levels of high - density lipoprotein (HDL), commonly known as «good» cholesterol, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.

The researchers say that although air pollution levels in Western Europe are relatively low when compared to cities in Asia or Latin - America, study participants were still exposed to pollution levels that exceed the values recommended by the World Health Organization.

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.

Lower income populations across the world, like in rural China, are often where these high levels of indoor air pollution occur.

The attempt to increase global living standards (and thereby reduce population growth) by exporting production facilities to regions with lower wage and environmental standards has backfired by increasing levels of water, air and soil pollution — increases that have been felt well beyond the boundaries of those regions.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the level of air pollution in the United States is among the lowest on the planet.

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.

If the energy comes from fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — we would see air pollution harming our health, extreme heat, drought, sea - level rise, and other climate impacts caused by carbon pollution, and we would see the disproportionate impacts on communities of color, low - income communities, and tribal communities.

World Bank research ranked the quality of Londoner's air, finding as follows: «If we rank the 3,226 cities with a population greater than 100,000 according to their pollution levels, from high to low, London comes 2,516 th.»

The factors that determined this ranking were the low prevalence of obesity, low levels of air pollution, low rate of preventable hospitalizations, and low rates of cancer deaths and cardiovascular death.