Sentences with phrase «urban 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.

If urban air pollution turns the same trick, then rainfall near large cities may be suppressed markedly.

But most of what they are doing is not visible, because it is rooted in local concerns, such as urban air pollution, rather than fear of global warming.

His research focuses on urban air pollution, climate change, transport, community resilience, behavioural change, public engagement and environmental assessment.

Up to five percent of urban air pollution comes from use of gasoline - powered landscape maintenance equipment, and lawns release water instead of retaining it.

Sixty - four percent want more action on «reducing urban air pollution issues like smog.»

But the same groups also protest environmental norms and taxes for more obvious, short term problems like urban air pollution.

Cifuentes, L., V.H. Borja - Aburto, N. Gouveia, G. Thurston, and D.L. Davis, 2001: Assessing the health benefits of urban air pollution reductions associated with climate change mitigation (2000 - 2020): Santiago, São Paulo, México City, and New York City.

Much less is known about the impact of environmental and psychological exposures, but some potential threats include: • Air pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetuses.

The decline comes as the country grapples with a struggling economy, choking urban air pollution and a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to uphold its end of the Paris climate agreement.

Millions of Americans were able to breathe more easily last year as urban air pollution declined in a number of cities.

This separate energy system allows businesses to produce electricity themselves in small, highly efficient gas - powered generators at their facilities (and cut urban air pollution and greenhouse gases at the same time).

Over the next three days the flock will fly about doing their pigeon things, but will do so wearing teeny - tiny fabric vests which fit comfortably on their chests and measure levels of nitrogen dioxide and ozone, the main gases behind harmful urban air pollution, Twitter explains:

Synthesizing gas from coal is great for curbing urban air pollution, particularly if the gas substitutes for burning coal as a domestic heating and cooking fuel, as is still common in China.

Health benefits may include: physical activity from walking and cycling, which can help prevent heart disease, some cancers, type 2 diabetes, and some obesity - related risks; lower urban air pollution concentrations; lower rates of traffic injury risks for users of dedicated bicycle and pedestrian networks; and less noise stress.

This is not only so we can cut carbon emissions and reduce climate change, but also because urban air pollution is one of the world's biggest killers and a major public health emergency.

The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built - up environment of cities instead of taller trees, a new study has found.

In addition, studies have recently reported that small increases in urban air pollution can decrease insulin sensitivity in healthy subjects (21), suggesting that air pollution contributes to the metabolic syndrome and a progression to Type 2 diabetes.

CA, NY, MA and other states have had Zero - Emission Vehicle programs since the early 1990s because battery electric vehicles in those states, taking into account power plants, are far cleaner than gasoline cars in reducing urban air pollution and smog.

«Urban air pollution: What are the main sources across the world?.»

«Cities need to «green up» to reduce impact of air pollution: The harmful impact of urban air pollution could be combated by strategically placing low hedges along roads in a built - up environment of cities instead of taller trees, a new study has found.»

Environmental challenges, climate change, water and food security and urban air pollution, they are all interlinked, yet each is studied as such, separately.

Urban air pollution is attributed, to a large extent, to emissions from transportation.

THE sheer number of particles in urban air pollution may be the critical factor that pushes up death rates from heart and lung problems when cities are hit by smog, according to Anthony Seaton, professor of environmental and occupational medicine at the University of Aberdeen.

The grime on city buildings and may actively contribute to urban air pollution.

Urban air pollution.

Aerosols in urban air pollution and from major industries such as the Canadian tar sands are of concern to scientists because they can affect regional climate patterns and have helped to warm the Arctic.

Everyday chemical products contribute significantly more to urban air pollution than previously thought.

MDs point to the known physiology of the liver, nutritionists point to the unknown composition of urban air pollution.

«Perhaps it is not surprising that profit margins take precedence over public health, but with transport emissions the main contributor to urban air pollution, resulting in nearly 10,000 early deaths a year in London alone and hugely decreasing quality of life for children, the elderly and those with pre-existing health complaints, the public should be utterly outraged by this news.»

For more on the urban air pollution problems attending the climb from developing to developed economies, read on:

Today the plug - in hybrid isn't perfect, but it's as good an answer as we have for an early start on ending oil addiction, global warming, and urban air pollution.

The combined effects of the urban air pollution mix is also an important issue that remains unresolved.