Sentences with phrase «of air pollutants on»

The artificial system is used to observe the effects of air pollutants on cells in the upper airway.

Existing research has often highlighted the adverse effects of air pollutants on lung function in school - age children and adolescents, but the effects of a mother's exposure to pollution on the lung function of her unborn child and shortly after birth are less well known.

«Initially, I looked at the effect of air pollutants on crops, but when I came to the U.K., work was being done on drought at Lancaster,» says Dodd, 39.

I am happy that we succeeded in providing a quantitative estimate of the effect of air pollutant on surface solar radiation in interaction with wind,» says Changgui Lin, the leading author of the article and researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg.

Not exact matches

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

The system processes 500,000,000 data points each day on indoor environmental quality, including comfort measures of temperature, humidity, noise, and light, and air pollutants like carbon dioxide and particulate matter.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

Recently, FPA attended a public hearing on the EPA's proposed rules to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from existing and new industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators

There are a vast range of air pollutants, which cause a variety of effects on the environment and health.

The impact of rapid increases in air pollutants on heart health may be at least as important as absolute concentrations.»

An international team of researchers analyzed economic and environmental data from 2000 to 2009 and found that production of goods for export in 2006 alone accounted for between one - fifth and one - third of China's air pollution, depending on the pollutant.

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

«Despite some reductions in air pollutant emissions in Europe and North America, human health impacts from ozone are still a cause for concern across the world and are rising in parts of East Asia, with the potential for serious health effects on their populations,» said Zo?

Beijing had imposed special restrictions on air pollutants, providing a rare opportunity for researchers to do relatively controlled experiments, says David Rich, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Rochester in New York.

We know that trees remove the air pollutants which can bring on asthma attacks, but in some situations they can also cause localised build - ups of particulates by preventing their dispersion by wind.

A study published in January in Environmental Health Perspectives reported that daily deaths over a decade in metropolitan Boston peaked on days when concentrations of three common air pollutants were at their highest, even though those levels would currently satisfy the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The U.S. environmental regulator argued in court on Tuesday that its rule limiting mercury and hazardous air pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states conteair pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states conteAir Act as industry groups and some states contend.

Focusing on the year 2007, the researchers found that of the 3.45 million premature deaths caused by fine - particulate - matter air pollution, about 12 percent were related to pollutants emitted in a different region of the world, and 22 percent were associated with goods produced in one region for consumption in another.

Atmospheric scientist Maria Zatko was close to completing her thesis on ground - level ozone in 2014 when she learned of a perfect opportunity to fill a gap in her research on this air pollutant.

The results estimate that lifelong exposure to 100 micrograms of «total suspended particulates,» or TSPs, (minuscule solid particles floating in the air, such as pollutants) per meter of air cubed will shorten a person's life by three years, on average.

The report is based on the JRC's Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), which is not only unique in its space and time coverage, but also in its completeness and consistency of the emissions compilations for multiple pollutants: the greenhouse gases (GHG), air pollutants and aerosols.

«Even without the catalytic mufflers, there are much lower emissions of air pollutants that can have adverse effects on human health and promote the formation of smog.»

The result: The air, as measured by a class of fine particulate pollutants at those locations and based on an annual average, fell within federal cleanliness guidelines.

Kaplan's team also found that in Montreal and Edmonton, emergency room visits for abdominal pain without a known cause were slightly higher among 15 - to 24 - year olds on days when levels of certain air pollutants were elevated.

The researchers hope an added bonus could be understanding how pollutants are transported and transformed as air is pushed along the tropics, which could have a direct effect on people living downwind of major air pollution sources.

Senator Tom Carper (DE), top Democrat on the panel, cited an interview in which Hartnett White suggested that low - level ozone, an air pollutant, wasn't harmful unless «you put your mouth over the tailpipe of a car for 8 hours every day.»

Singapore can then impose fines of up to S$ 100,000 ($ 80,000) per day of smoke, up to a maximum of S$ 2 million, on companies or individuals that are found to cause Singapore's air pollutant standards index to rise to the «unhealthy» level.

Renault, the French car - maker, last month removed its cars from a parking site at the French port of Le Havre after a mysterious air pollutant damaged paint on a few hundred vehicles.

By including the two most important air pollutants in the analysis, the new study «gives policy makers and local air quality managers a much better picture of what is going on.»

Air pollutant emission inventories are essential in measuring the impact of pollution on air quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the futuAir pollutant emission inventories are essential in measuring the impact of pollution on air quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the futuair quality and the climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and climate models to make projections for the future.

The state - of - the - art measuring methods used in this study and the results obtained are, according to the researchers, another important step in the research of air pollutants and their impact on health.

The release of these pollutants is mainly due to the unregulated or inefficient production and use of energy, the IEA said in a special report on energy and air pollution.

The U.S. EPA Mercury and Air Toxics Standards and the International Minamata Convention on Mercury, have focused on limiting the emissions of toxic air pollutants, including mercuAir Toxics Standards and the International Minamata Convention on Mercury, have focused on limiting the emissions of toxic air pollutants, including mercuair pollutants, including mercury.

The evidence is pretty compelling that something is going on with air pollution and autism,» says Kalkbrenner, who adds that further study is needed to determine the neurodevelopmental impacts of specific chemical pollutants during precise developmental windows.

In addition, the benefits of avoided emissions of air pollutants have been estimated for agricultural production and the impact of acid precipitation on natural ecosystems.

One of the greatest concerns with wildfires is their impact on air quality and associated health consequences; PM2.5 is just one of the pollutants in wildfire smoke, but its small size makes it a well - known threat to people's health.

Pallas also serves as one of the sites of the Finnish network for monitoring the concentrations of mercury and other heavy metals, benzo (a) pyrene, O3 and other air pollutants as required by the European legislation on ambient air quality assessment and management.

It conducts interdisciplinary, peer - reviewed studies related to air pollution and greenhouse gases in China, from root causes in the energy demands to power its economy, to the chemistry and transport of pollutants in the atmosphere, to their impacts on public health, to policies to protect air quality and limit climate change.

And when these ships are dismantled under primitive conditions, like on the beaches outside Chittagong, a number of pollutants are released into the air.

Berkeley Lab scientists first sounded the warning on thirdhand smoke with a pair of studies in 2010 establishing that nicotine in thirdhand smoke can react with common indoor air pollutants to produce dangerous carcinogens.

Some of these particles - PAHs - appear on the United Nation's list of persistent organic pollutants where they are regulated as air pollution.

This research looked at long - term demographic changes, the long - range transport of air pollutants and the influence of climate change on air quality.

Pallas is one of the sites of the Finnish network for monitoring the concentrations of mercury and other heavy metals, benzo (a) pyrene, ozone and other air pollutants, as required by the European legislation on ambient air quality.

The chemical industry relies on catalysts for 90 percent of its processes — everything from refining oil, turning petroleum into plastic, and producing fertilizers food and medicine, to scrubbing the air of noxious pollutants emitted from cars and factories.

The degree of air pollution in China exceeded that in most of the world, yet assessments of total health effects must also include other fossil fuel caused air and water pollutants, as discussed in the following section on ecology and the environment.

Oct. 3, 2017 - A recent study by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and collaborators is the first to use an ensemble of global chemistry climate models to estimate death rates from air pollution caused by the impact of climate change on pollutant concentrations.

In the first study of its kind, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that pets absorb the pollutants in tap water, on lawns treated with pesticides, and in the air at higher levels than humans.

However, on its own website, the Association of Avian Veterinarians places only non-stick cookware under the category of air pollutants dangerous to pet birds.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warns, «Indoor air levels of many pollutants may be 2 — 5 times, and on occasion more than 100 times, higher than outdoor levels.»

Exposure to poor indoor air quality can have immediate effects on health, with even a first - time exposure to some toxins and pollutants causing headaches, dizziness and irritation of the ears, nose and throat.