Sentences with phrase «much about air pollution»

While we may not be able to do much about air pollution or background radiation, let's look at the factors we can control in more detail.

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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.

If he cares so much about traffic jams, congestion and air pollution, why does he let Park Avenue be blocked off?

Interestingly, marijuana smoking contributed to in - home air pollution about as much as tobacco smoking — the first time such a finding has been reported.

And it's not just confined to China: as the pollution builds it forms a brown cloud, visible from space, that takes about a week to cross the Pacific to the western U.S., where it accounts for as much as 15 percent of the air pollution.

Apart from reducing their personal contributions to outdoor pollution, there is not much that individuals can do about this unless they invest in systems to filter the air they breathe indoors.»

But Xue says that smart cities are as much about preserving societal stability as streamlining transportation flows and mitigating air pollution.

Using climate models and data collected about aerosols and meteorology over the past 30 years, the researchers found that air pollution over Asia — much of it coming from China — is impacting global air circulations.

«What's been missing is an understandable way to access our personal exposure [to air pollution] and advice on what to do about what you're breathing, Most people don't know how much pollution changes day by day, but also hour by hour and even street by street.»

We already wrote about some studies by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Colorado, Boulder, that showed that cargo ships emitted about as much air pollution as half the world's cars, and that sounded like a lot, but if the Guardian is right, this was widely over-optimistic.

If we make it to next week, we'll look at another double - sided threat: air pollution is killing millions, but if we clean it up, the global mean temperature may go up as much as 1 degree C. We'll hear what the scientists say about new research.

It's hard to trust the official data from the Chinese government about most things, but when it comes to air pollution in Beijing, there's a good proxy: The U.S. Embassy has been publishing its own air quality measurements, and they're pretty much uniformly horrible.

Natural gas has about half the carbon of coal, and burning it creates much less air pollution.

One is the recent outcry about Beijing's choking air pollution, much of which originates from coal burning.