Probably what others have warned about before: that indoor air pollution can be 100 times the level
of outdoor air pollution — and it can come from some pretty surprising sources.
There is a growing awareness
of outdoor air quality and its impact on our health, but our indoor air is also often less healthy than it should be.
Related to research on fine particles and health we study the
roles of outdoor air and living on indoor air quality.
That's because indoor air is made
up of outdoor air plus all the pollutants and allergens generated from cleaning products, pets, dust, smoke, and so on.
December 19, 2017 — NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include understanding how dietary factors influence disease risk, combatting the epigenetic
effects of outdoor air pollution, and methods to detect prions in blood and skin.
Using French cohort data from 608 adults, including 240 with asthma who had respiratory symptoms, asthma attacks or increased medication use in the previous 12 months, the research team estimated the impact of long - term exposure to high intensity traffic and to different
types of outdoor air pollutants called ozone and particulate matter.
Making ice at night is easier than doing so during the day, because the
temperature of the outdoor air, to which the compressor must release the heat, is generally lower than it is earlier in the day.
The energy - efficiency movement is in full swing, which means many houses are sealed ultra-tight, preventing any
sort of outdoor air from reaching the inside.
Measures of outdoor air quality through such well - publicized formulas as the SMOG index and allergy alerts have served as near - constant reminders in raising awareness of how the outdoor environment could be impacting your health.
Lelieveld, J., J. S. Evans, M. Fnais, D. Giannadakii, and A. Pozzer, 2015: The
contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale.
The project focuses on compressorless cooling strategies, specifically the
use of outdoor air for cooling in conjunction with indirect - direct evaporative cooling processes.
This map, based on previous research, shows a model estimate of the average number of deaths per 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) per year due to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a
type of outdoor air pollution.
Environmental regulations have improved the quality
of outdoor air.
However, the quality of indoor air is, on average, two to five times worse than
that of outdoor air, and in fact, the EPA rates indoor air pollution as one of the five greatest public health risks.