Sentences with phrase «more air pollution health»

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

This holds whether we are thinking of how to grow more grain in the tropics, reduce the birth rate, control inflation, stimulate economic growth, get rid of tooth decay, provide better health care, find some way to turn garbage into a useful resource, reduce air pollution, win the next election, avoid war with Russia, develop human potential, extend the length of life, or find a cure for cancer.

More than two of every five Americans reside in counties with unhealthy levels of smog and air pollution, thanks largely to the effect of global warming, health researchers report.

«Disadvantaged neighborhoods have relatively high burdens of health problems like asthma and emphysema, which are exacerbated by air pollution, so a given amount of pollution will cause more of a health impact,» a department spokesman said by email.

«Over the years, I have worked with Senator Espaillat to address problems in our communities including the need for more affordable housing, the air pollution that causes asthma and other health issues, and to improve the quality of our education programs,» Mr. Farrell told the Observer.

The neighborhood also has many older residents who are more vulnerable to health problems caused by air pollution, Stringer said.

Fires are more prevalent in other parts of the world, but the site's high - quality health, wind, and air pollution data made it attractive for study.

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

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.

Air pollution trapped by winter inversions along Utah's Wasatch Front, the state's most populated region, is estimated to send more than 200 people to the emergency room with pneumonia each year, according to a study by University of Utah Health and Intermountain Healthcare.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

«Our study found more recent exposures were more important for mortality risk than historic exposures, but we need to do more work on how air pollution affects health over a person's entire lifetime.

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.

«I am pleased that the judge agrees with us that the government could and should be doing more to deal with air pollution and protecting people's health,» says James Thornton, head of ClientEarth.

«There is concern about air pollution and its health impacts, more so following «diesel-gate»,» said Prof. Andersen.

But even though four decades of Clean Air Act programs have already done a lot to improve our health, environment leaders and public health advocates alike would like to see lawmakers put in place even more stringent rules to reduce pollution of all kinds and put our economy on a cleaner, greener path overall.

Air pollution levels in some Chinese cities, such as Beijing, are often more than 100 times higher than acceptable limits set by the World Health Organization standards, Zhang says.

Air and water pollution from fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, killing more than 1,000,000 people per year and affecting the health of billions of people [232], [234], with costs borne by the public.

«But we need to do more work on how air pollution affects health over a person's entire lifetime,» she said.

More recent air pollution exposure made a bigger difference on health, the study authors said.

The study authors suggested that more research into the long - term health effects of air pollution — often called smog — is needed.

Hansell said that more recent exposure to air pollution was more important for health than older exposure.

Scientists from 32 powerhouse organizations including the American Public Health Association and the American Chemical Society just penned Congress a letter highlighting a «vast body of peer - reviewed science» that proves the severity of climate change and urging them to take action with legislation that more strictly regulates industrial air pollution.

It's no surprise that air pollution can affect your health, but did you know that indoor air is 2 to 5 times more polluted than outdoor air?

On the next NaturalHealth365 Talk Hour, Jonathan Landsman and Dr. Moshe Dekel detail the health dangers of toxic indoor air and, more importantly, how to neutralize indoor pollution.

The pollution and poverty index is a ranking of each census tract as scored by the CalEnviroScreen (CES 2.0)-- it's a combination of poverty, language isolation, and exposure to toxics in both air and water that was generated by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (see oehha.ca.gov/ej/ces2.html for more details).

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.

O'Rourke always hated the bike (in print, at least), and now that it's becoming more of a needed transportation mainstay on crowded American city streets, reducing pollution and carbon dioxide emissions and improving health, O'Rourke is airing his feelings once again.

According to data from the World Health Organization, rising temperatures on the planet are killing off the equivalent of a mid-sized city every year; about 150,000 annual deaths can be attributed to global warming, from causes including heat waves, air pollution, infectious disease, food safety and production, flooding and more.

The World Health Organization estimates that preventable deaths from air pollution, meaning soot and smog from burning wood, coal, oil and gasoline, total more than two million per year worldwide.

However, such plants cause more environmental harm and health issues due to air pollution, CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions.

If it succeeds it will not only be condemning citizens across Europe to more health impacts from air pollution, it will be throwing billions of taxpayer euros down the drain.

More than 20 million people in the Midwest experience air quality that fails to meet national ambient air quality standards.14 Degraded air quality due to human - induced emissions66 and increased pollen season duration67 are projected to be amplified with higher temperatures, 68 and pollution and pollen exposures, in addition to heat waves, can harm human health (Ch.

As the health impacts of air pollution, climate impacts and fossil fuel use become more present every day, the medical community has spoken out.

Not only are you at risk of being run over on the traffic - clogged roads and streets of this chaotic city of 14 million — you're also more than likely to suffer from serious health problems due to some of the worst air pollution [continue reading...]

The document also notes that air pollution is a major contributing factor in the deaths of around 600,000 children under age 5 every year and threatens the health, lives and futures of millions more.

air pollution in the U.S. was more of an aesthetic than a public health problem in 1970.

It means increased health risks and more air pollution.

Atmospheric warming will also lead to more health issues related to air pollution, which tends to increase with higher temperatures.

Over the last decade, public - health researchers have been exploring more and more ways to help minimize the effects of indoor air pollution.

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 %).

Replacing traditional stoves with advanced alternatives that burn more cleanly has the potential to ameliorate major health problems associated with indoor air pollution in developing countries...

State - level climate action is benefitting our economies and strengthening our communities: Alliance members are growing our clean energy economies and creating new jobs, while reducing air pollution, improving public health, and building more resilient communities.

They have powered America for more than a century, but their production and use have significant health and environmental impacts, including air and water pollution, environmental degradation, and global warming.

The Clean Air Task Force estimates that pollution from Navajo Generating Station contributes to 16 premature deaths, 25 heart attacks, 300 asthma attacks, and 15 asthma emergency room visits each year, with total annual health costs of more than $ 127 million.

Among the issues reviewed were: • The prospects for air pollution and climate change in the region up to 2030 in the absence of action on SLCPs; • The potential contribution of SLCP mitigation to climate, health and food security, and more generally to economic development; • Feasible mitigation technologies and strategies and opportunities for their implementation at national scale; • The relationship of SLCP mitigation to broader regional air pollution and climate strategies and their benefit for the MENA region.

James Gauderman, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) and his team, who have run the Children's Health Study for two decades and who first identified a link between air pollution and impaired children's lung function, report that as a result of the clean - up, today's children can breathe more easily.

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.

In «Make a carbon tax part of reform effort» (Concord Monitor, 9/19/11), Holtz - Eakin argues for comprehensive tax reform to include a carbon tax so that more of the «true cost of burning a fossil fuel... in the form of air pollution, a negative impact on human health, harm to the environment or climate change [is a] component in economic decisions [such as] include whether to invest in a coal - fired power plant or a wind farm.»

We can expect more threats to food and water security, sea level rises, changes in vector - borne, food and water borne disease, exacerbation of air pollution, increases in aeroallergens, mental health and refugee health impacts.