Sentences with phrase «lowering air pollution»

Reducing traffic congestion, lowering air pollution and CO2 emissions, even feeding the homeless while moving major amounts of goods.

Meanwhile, the US — which currently ranks eighth on the list of countries with the lowest air pollution — could be headed in the opposite direction.

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.

Pachauri highlighted greater energy security with consumers being protected from wild price spikes for energy, expanding green jobs, more productive agriculture, lowered air pollution, and lower health care costs as all being benefits of tackling climate change now, which have genuine, quantifiable economic benefits.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, I was in southeast Texas, taking pictures of an oil refinery for a report about air pollution and the harm it causes to lower - income communities like Port Arthur, Texas.

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!

During his 2013 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo laid out his ChargeNY plan to invest $ 50 million over five years in electric vehicle infrastructure to reduce air pollution, lower the cost of government and reduce dependence on imported oil.

Ritz, who studies the hazards of air pollution in Los Angeles, points out that it's not just the lowest birth weight babies affected.

The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built - up environment of cities instead of taller trees, a new study has found.

If the process could be applied to other common industrial metals such as copper, it would have the potential to significantly lower prices as well as reduce the air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions associated with traditional production.

«Cities need to «green up» to reduce impact of air pollution: The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built - up environment of cities instead of taller trees, a new study has found.»

In addition, they found that children born at low birth weight were more susceptible to the respiratory effects of air pollution.

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

Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.

With the developed system a significant reduction of air pollution in urban areas is expected, given the high frequency of cold starts and the low distances travelled.

«Future studies should examine whether the health benefits from short - term air purification can improve long - term health, and whether these findings are also found in people who live in low pollution areas,» Kan said.

Air pollution ranks ninth among the modifiable disease risk factors, ahead of low physical activity, high sodium diet, high cholesterol and drug use.»

«If the oceans were not salty,» the authors write, «air pollution would remain much longer in the lower troposphere and spread to much greater areas of the oceans.»

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.

Individuals in poor rural areas, as well as in low - income urban communities such as Richmond, Calif., suffer disproportionately from childhood asthma, in part because of inadequate housing, deficient medical care and proximity to multiple sources of air pollution.

«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.

Indeed, studies show that air pollution is more likely to cause respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, as well as premature deaths, among people in lower socioeconomic groups.

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.

Not only can indoor and outdoor air pollution trigger asthma in susceptible children, Currie and Alexander noted — they can also cause women to have low - birth - weight babies in the first place.

Exposure to air pollution early in a pregnancy could increase risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, according to a study led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, and published on July 27 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

«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.

The studies have found that lower solar surface radiation in China is due to a combination of higher air pollution in the area and lower surface winds in China.

The research reveals that the solar dimming due to air pollution increased significantly during the day in polluted areas in China, when wind speed was lower than 3.5 metres per second.

«Researchers create new low - cost, sustainable material for reducing air and water pollution: A new «green» material made from solid wastes and natural polymers promises better results than activated carbon in adsorbing pollutants in wastewater and air.»

A new class of low - cost and sustainable hybrid materials could possibly displace activated carbon as the preferred choice for reducing wastewater and air pollution.

«Moreover, we know that lowering exposure to air pollution anywhere will be beneficial to children's health and long - term potential.»

«If there is low pressure below,» says Sausen, «then air is rising and pollution from planes flying near the top of the troposphere could still rise into the stratosphere.

Lower rates of asthma and other health problems are frequently cited as benefits of policies aimed at cutting carbon emissions from sources like power plants and vehicles, because these policies also lead to reductions in other harmful types of air pollution.

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.

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.

ALA also found, by overlaying census data with pollution maps, that Americans with the lowest incomes face higher risks of harm from air pollution, underscoring what environmental justice advocates have been saying for years.

«When it's more important than ever to cut energy costs and reduce pollution in our communities, organizations across America are making their buildings more efficient, raising the bar in energy efficiency and lowering the amount of carbon pollution and other emissions in the air we breathe,» said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in a statement.

Low - income neighborhoods near the Ship Channel, which connects Houston to Galveston Bay, have been plagued with air pollution from oil refineries, chemical plants and the shipping industry.

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.

It's a common scenario in cities nationwide: Due to high housing costs and historical discrimination, low - income and minority neighborhoods are clustered around industrial sites, truck routes, ports and other air pollution hotspots.

«Air pollution controls linked to lower death rates in North Carolina.»

«Increased air pollution cuts victims» lifespan by a decade, costing billions: But different calculations mean estimated cost is 3 times lower in EU than with US methodology.»

Men and women responded to air pollutants differently: HDL was lower at higher pollution exposure for both sexes, but the magnitude was greater in women.

Thus, one may speculate that lower birthweight is an intermediate step or «phenotype» between air pollution and insulin resistance.

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.

Tiny particles of air pollution contain more hazardous ingredients in non-white and low - income communities than in affluent white ones, a new study shows.

«One example may be the human rights application of unmanned aerial devices or the construction of low - cost devices for monitoring air and water pollution,» Wyndham says.

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.