Sentences with phrase «other air pollution studies»

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She is currently involved in two new studies — one probing the effects of air pollution and the other examining the synergistic effects of smog and diet on respiratory well - being.

«Our other research study into London's air quality, published this week in Atmospheric Environment, investigated the underlining factors responsible for the air pollution exposure in urban environments.

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.

One of the earliest compelling studies to suggest a relationship between diabetes and air pollution was an animal experiment published in 2009 in Circulation from researchers at Ohio State University and other institutions.

The panel suggests further studies to explore whether the elevated leukemia risk comes from some other hazard, such as air pollution.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (and the California Air Resources Board) have noted that turning corn into ethanol can actually be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other unintended environmental effects, largely by driving the expansion of agriculture and its attendant pollution — as evidenced by previous studies published in Science.

«Our findings help us to understand how it is that exposures to air pollution may cause the increases in heart attacks and strokes observed by other studies,» Adar said.

«While Beijing's pollution is particularly noteworthy, many of the world's other cities face similar air quality problems,» said Junfeng Zhang, Ph.D., with Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Kunshan University and a co-author of the study.

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.

This finding adds to previous studies that have linked acceptable air pollution levels with other complications including cognitive decline and fetal growth development.

The authors wrote that future studies must test if these results apply to other people who were exposed to air pollution after the World Trade Center collapsed.

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.

«As air quality standards become more stringent, people are going to be thinking about other technologies that can reduce pollution,» said Jonathan D. Raff, assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington and an author of the study.

The researchers note that this study only looked at air pollution exposure at the participants» home address and did not have data on their exposure at other locations, and say that larger longitudinal studies are now needed to confirm their results.

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.

Avoiding air pollution can reduce the risk of heart attack, heart failure, and other complications, especially in patients who are recovering after being hospitalized, according to Diane R. Gold, MD, the study's senior author and an associate professor of medicine and environmental health at Harvard.

Other studies have linked air pollution to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.

«There could be less pollution drifting into New York and other northeastern states» Right on the heels of the study saying that soot in the air might be more dangerous than previously thought comes some good news: «Judge Larry McKinney today issued a

A new study says that emissions from farms outweigh all other human sources of fine - particulate air pollution in much of the United States, Europe, Russia and China.

In fact, according to a 2013 study in The Lancet, roughly 3.5 million people, mostly women and children, die every year from respiratory illness as a result of indoor air pollution created by wood and other biomass stoves.

«Air pollution is an immediate problem that is directly linked to many of the economic, energy - related activities that are also responsible for greenhouse gases,» added the study's other co-author, Valerie Karplus, the Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management in MIT's Sloan School of Management.

The scientific consensus is that pollution controls enacted through the Clean Air Act Amendments in the 1990s and other measures have helped decrease the acidity of rain by approximately 60 percent to less harmful levels, as reflected in data gathered nationwide and by UD researchers in Lewes, Del., as part of a longstanding study.

«What is different between this study and other studies that have proposed solutions is that we are trying to examine not only the climate benefits of reducing carbon but also the air pollution benefits, job benefits and cost benefits.»

The rampant air and water pollution resulting from fossil fuel use has garnered considerable attention in recent years, with landmark studies on the human health effects and other costs of coal burning, and alarming accounts of declining air quality in gas - and - oil - drilling boomtowns.

Other research The country's rampant air pollution is also a serious threat to pregnant women, increasing the risk of giving birth to under - weight infants and resulting in chromosomal abnormalities in fetal tissues, said studies conducted by Yale and Columbia Universities.

In the new study funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and other institutions, researchers used a special chemical process to fingerprint the source and details of the air pollution, which can be differentiated between South Asia and East Asia.

With concerns over climate change and health impacts of air pollution growing and due to cost reductions in renewable technology, similar developments are taking place in many parts of the world, making the German experience an interesting case study for energy policy in other countries.

The most comprehensive peer - reviewed studies done by independent scientists evaluate air pollution, worker safety, and all of the other risks in energy production and find that nuclear is safer than coal, oil, natural gas, and even solar.20, 21

According to one study, predominantly black neighborhoods have noticeably higher levels of air pollution than other communities.