Sentences with phrase «polluted urban air»

These compounds were not previously known to exist, and raise additional concerns about the health impacts of heavily - polluted urban air or dietary exposure.

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But it can make a huge difference in public health, they noted, particularly as many urban greenhouse gas emitters also pollute the air and are located in poor neighborhoods.

Beijing, like some other cities in Asia, has significant problems with air quality, and may be 10 - 50 times more polluted than some major urban areas in the U.S. with air concerns, such as the Los Angeles basin.

Of course, the Fontus wouldn't be suitable in urban areas where there might be polluting particulates in the air.

It was not just the air, either: 90 percent of groundwater in urban areas and 70 percent of mainland lakes and rivers were considered highly polluted.

Major Environmental Issues: Erosion resulting from inadequate flood controls and improper land use practices; irrigated soil degradation; desertification; air pollution in Buenos Aires and other major cities; water pollution in urban areas; rivers becoming polluted due to increased pesticide and fertilizer use.

Major Environmental Issues: Natural fresh water resources scarce and polluted in north, inaccessible and poor quality in center and extreme southeast; raw sewage and industrial effluents polluting rivers in urban areas; deforestation; widespread erosion; desertification; serious air pollution in the national capital and urban centers along US - Mexico border.

The columnist, Charles Komanoff, notes that if New York still had poor air quality, like it did in the 1970s, then it would have been much harder to court investors and residents to invest in and live in polluted urban areas, particular in high end real estate.

Urban areas, where apartment buildings and condominiums are common, can have highly polluted air.