Sentences with phrase «other air pollution particles»

The investigators found that — pound for pound — particles from coal burning contribute about five times more to the risk of death from heart disease than other air pollution particles of the same size — less than one ten - thousandth of an inch in diameter (known as PM 2.5).

Not exact matches

The research focuses on the power of minute airborne particles known as aerosols, which can come from urban and industrial air pollution, wildfires and other sources.

Pollutants and other fine particles can hang in the air and travel great distances, said George Thurston, who studies the health effects of air pollution at New York School of Medicine.

Other studies have shown that air pollution may lead to an increase in inflammatory particles called cytokines circulating throughout the body, including the gut.

Daily exposure to air pollution from sources including traffic, power plants, and other industrial sources consisting of fine particles in the prenatal period was estimated based on where these mothers lived.

The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, showed that the production of tar sands and other heavy oil — thick, highly viscous crude oil that is difficult to produce — are a major source of aerosols, a component of fine particle air pollution, which can affect regional weather patterns and increase the risk of lung and heart disease.

Of course, buses that burn natural gas do cut down on soot and other forms of air pollution, reducing known deaths from inhaling such small particles.

A new study finds that long - term exposure to fine - particle air pollution — formed by the gasses of cars, power plants, and other sources — is associated with much higher mortality rates from cancers of the breast, upper digestive tract, and other organs.

Whether you have extra hormones, toxic heavy metals from air pollution, extra lipids or other particles in your bloodstream that aren't supposed to be there, the skin is a good place for your brilliant bloodstream to deliver them so that they aren't floating around causing other problems.

Composed of field recordings collected throughout the city, the sound captures the dynamic energy of signals and particles — both technological and ecological — which surround us and encompass the movement of business transactions, air pollution, traffic, street sounds, and other palpable evidence of an industrialized port city.

When we cut down carbon pollution, we also reduce the amount of other harmful air pollutants spewed out by power plants, like fine particles — and that's a double bonus for health.

Some of the air pollution, which includes mercury, oxides of sulfur and nitrogen and various particles, is toxic to people and other animals;

Air pollution may reduce wind power, rainfall Air pollution may reduce wind power, rainfall mongabay.com January 22, 2007 Aerosolized particles and other pollution produced from vehicle exhaust may reduce wind...