Sentences with phrase «studies on air pollution»

The administration suppressed studies on agricultural pollution, Arctic oil drilling, and global warming in government reports, and it blocked studies on air pollution.

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The recently published study shows, based on the available information, that traffic (25 %), combustion and agriculture (22 %), domestic fuel burning (20 %), natural dust and salt (18 %), and industrial activities (15 %) are the main sources of particulate matter contributing to cities» air pollution.

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 earlier study showed the weathering impact of air pollution on the building materials such as limestone, sandstone and carbon steel, used in many heritage buildings and built infrastructure.

For their investigation, the researchers utilized field work on air pollution that Hayes carried out in California in 2010 and published in 2013 when he was a researcher at the University of Colorado working with Jose - Luis Jimenez (also a co-author of the new study).

They said the real strength of the Jacobson study — now in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres — is that it relies on a new computer model of climate, air pollution and weather that accounts for several different ways black carbon influences the environment.

From the 1,295 women enrolled in the study at the beginning of pregnancy, the researchers obtained data on exposure to both air pollution and lung function assessment at 4.5 years old for 620 (48 %) of their children.

Some researchers have pinned the blame on indoor air pollution and a study last year showed that when outdoor ozone levels rose, the number of people inside suffering from so - called «sick building syndrome» also increased.

Nevertheless, the study highlights air pollution's potential impact on human health in more ways than we currently know, Kan said.

«Although the link between traffic - related air pollution and left ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, and cardiovascular death is established, the effects of traffic - related air pollution on the right ventricle have not been well studied,» said lead author Peter Leary, MD, MS, of the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

This is the first time that a team of scientists has studied the potential impact on cognitive development of exposure to air pollution in children who walk to school.

«Air pollution exposure on home - to - school routes reduces the growth of working memory: Findings of an ISGlobal study underscore the importance of establishing school routes along less polluted streets.»

«It may be, though, that long - term exposure to air pollution makes people more susceptible to ALRI on a routine basis, although additional studies will be required to test this hypothesis.»

This latest research is part of continuing studies into the effects of air pollution on bees.

There, she met a team of physicians connected with the Children's Environmental Health Center at the University of Southern California who were conducting a long - term study on the link between chronic exposure to air pollution from freeway traffic and respiratory illnesses.

The researchers» results were comparable to previous studies that have analysed air pollution and mortality; however, there was some variation depending on which climate model was used.

Exposure to air pollution early in a pregnancy could increase risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, according to a study led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, and published on July 27 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

LONDON, Sept 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Encouraging people to abandon their cars and use public transport or walk or cycle around cities offers the «least pain, most gain» way to cut air pollution from traffic by 2050, a new international study said on Wednesday.

The negative effect of imported pollution on the US's ability to achieve its air quality goals is not wholly unexpected, according to Owen Cooper, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, who is familiar with the current study but not directly involved.

Researcher Peter Homyak is seen here collecting a lake sediment core to study the impacts of air pollution and climate change on alpine lakes of the Sierra Nevada.

In 2013, the science committee subpoenaed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over communications related to a controversial study on the health effects of air pollution known as the Harvard Six Cities Sstudy on the health effects of air pollution known as the Harvard Six Cities StudyStudy.

Dr Anna Hansell, lead author of the study, from the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment and Health at Imperial, said: «Air pollution has well established impacts on health, especially on heart and lung disease.

The study is the most detailed assessment to date of the interwoven effects of climate policy on the economy, air pollution, and the cost of health problems related to air pollution.

The four - year study is the first real - world trial looking at the effects of human behavior at the pump on urban air pollution.

So the agency should not improve only communication between its researchers who study air and water, but also talk more with scientists at the U.S. departments of agriculture and energy, who also work on nitrogen pollution, the report finds.

Smith, the senior Republican on the House of Representatives science committee, issued a controversial subpoena to EPA on 1 August for all the raw data from a number of federally funded studies linking air pollution to disease.

«Our study found more recent exposures were more important for mortality risk than historic exposures, but we need to do more work on how air pollution affects health over a person's entire lifetime.

Republicans on House science committee want independent review of decades - old studies underpinning air pollution regulations

Numerous studies have shown that air pollution leads to millions of premature deaths worldwide each year (see «Cutting through the smog on air pollution «-RRB-.

«Most research has focused on single environmental factors like air pollution or toxins in water,» said Jyotsna Jagai, research assistant professor of environmental and occupational health in the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and lead author of the study.

International trade in goods and services has a bigger impact on shifting the health burden of air pollution than atmospheric flows, a new study finds.

In addition, the work of Kalkbrenner and her colleagues, building on previous studies, showed that women in the third trimester of pregnancy were more susceptible to the damaging effects of air pollution on their unborn child.

However to date, epidemiological studies that have examined associations between long - term exposure to traffic - related air pollution and type 2 diabetes in adults are inconsistent, and studies on insulin resistance in children are scarce.

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.

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.

Data on the levels of road traffic and air pollution were taken from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects and French Institute for the Environment assessmenair pollution were taken from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects and French Institute for the Environment assessmenAir Pollution Effects and French Institute for the Environment assessments.

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.

The UNC researchers say this is the most comprehensive study yet on how climate change could affect public health through air pollution.

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.

More recent air pollution exposure made a bigger difference on health, the study authors said.

This study added to the growing body of research on air pollutions effect on the heart.

The researchers found that due to the confined cabin space, with the worst ventilation conditions, as well as in peak contamination, that the evidence indicates that smoking in cars produces fine particle pollution concentrations which are very rarely found in studies on air quality.

Mercury — studies show that mercury from pollution (coal burning plants are the biggest source of mercury pollution to air and water) and from fish that are high on the food chain such as tuna, shark, swordfish, tilefish, etc can possibly cause long term negative effects on your brain.

Countless studies have shown the effect of air pollution on cardiovascular and respiratory health — killing millions each year.

Studies suggest that concentrations of air pollution can be up to 12 times higher inside vehicles than those experienced by cyclists and pedestrians on the same routes.

High gas prices can also cut down on cancer in adults Air pollution is also a major contributor to the occurrence of cancer in adults, and a 2005 study attributed 58,000 premature deaths to vehicle emissions.

The folks over at the Porter School for Environmental Studies are organizing a one - day event at the Watec conference tomorrow in Tel Aviv, but with a focus on air pollution and the global «ZeroCarbonCity» campaign.

As a starting point in reviewing procedures, I encourage leadership at the University of Texas Energy Institute and similar centers focused on energy, the environment and health to consider the structure of the 32 - year - old Health Effects Institute, which was created to conduct independent studies of health impacts of air pollution and is co-funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and the worldwide motor vehicle industry.

«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

Study after study into the effects of air pollution on the human body has turned up a grim laundry - list of associated ills — such as increased risks of stroke, heart attack, and lung disease — and now, according to the latest research, it may actually be doing harm to our brains as well, ultimately leading to learning problems and even depresStudy after study into the effects of air pollution on the human body has turned up a grim laundry - list of associated ills — such as increased risks of stroke, heart attack, and lung disease — and now, according to the latest research, it may actually be doing harm to our brains as well, ultimately leading to learning problems and even depresstudy into the effects of air pollution on the human body has turned up a grim laundry - list of associated ills — such as increased risks of stroke, heart attack, and lung disease — and now, according to the latest research, it may actually be doing harm to our brains as well, ultimately leading to learning problems and even depression.