Sentences with phrase «urban pollution»

This was thanks to policies aimed at reducing urban pollution and stimulating Chinese industry.

«There's not much difference between urban pollution and smoke,» he says.

A 3000 watt gas powered generator only costs $ 500; they may become our biggest urban pollution problem when there are entrepreneurs on every street corner with cords hanging out, offering a charge.

Others may want seize the moment to check out for the first time in their lives just how many stars you can see in the night sky when urban pollution doesn't obstruct the view.

As he embarked on his second five - year term as China's President last week, Xi Jinping pledged to «Make the Skies Blue Again»: a riff on President Trump's «#MAGA» mantra that nodded to China's acute urban pollution problem.

Urban pollution reduction policies.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is binning targets to decrease emissions and increase fuel economy by 2025, in a move that's bad for urban pollution levels but good for car makers.

2:57 p.m. Updated On Sunday I posted a 140 - character Twitter item containing four links that sketch humanity's urban pollution challenges and opportunities over the last 60 years.

An innovative program in Portland, Oregon, is helping improve their access to employment opportunities without adding to urban pollution by turning car-less low - income individuals into bike commuters.Empowering Low - Income Adults Wend Magazine tipped us off to the «Create a Commuter» program, which provides free refurbished bicycles to people who need a way to get to work and trains them in basic bike repair and safe riding tips.

Urban pollution concentrations depend on the magnitude of local emissions sources and the prevailing meteorological ventilation of the area — i.e., the height of the atmospheric layer through which the pollutants are being mixed and the average wind speed through that layer.

Her research in Mexico focused more on aerosol urban pollution, providing a new direction by bringing a physical context to the pollution research.

This will help with urban pollution.

But that will soon change, as costs diminish, and more governments encourage the adoption of EVs to cut carbon emissions and fight urban pollution.

«Examining invisible urban pollution and its effect on real estate value in New York City» — by William Gati in New York Real Estate Journal September 2017

It's clear to me that much can be gained, environmentally and economically (in part through reducing the huge health cost of urban pollution), through collaboration between the United States and China, as well as other countries in Asia with similar issues and opportunities.

After several years in limbo, one of the most odd and ambitious attempts to address China's urban pollution and congestion problems is showing signs of life.

Since then, her ongoing research and those of dozens of colleagues have led to conclusions that urban pollution, particularly the kind you live with in dense areas like New York City, New Delhi, London, and Mexico City, is a critical health concern.

He says that the «key point is that the urban pollution cloud comprises predominantly small acidic particles... which penetrate indoors and persist for long periods in air, whereas industrial dust clouds consist mainly of much larger particles».

Urban pollution, traffic and shrinking wild spaces have been causing changes in these genetic instructions.

Species are adapting to urban pollution, traffic and shrinking habitats through changes in their genes

Artists have come from as far away as Nepal, home of painter Hitman Gurung, whose work confronts social issues such as economic migration and urban pollution.

In the analysis, Dr. Hansen and his colleagues culled data and scientific papers on topics from rice production, which releases methane, to urban pollution, a source of ozone and sooty particles, to obtain detailed estimates of the rate of change in different greenhouse emissions.

Although the seasonal variation in India's urban pollution is partly meteorological in nature, the underlying cause is the country's rapid and accelerating economic development, and the resulting increase in combustion emissions.

Giant vacuum cleaner sucks up urban pollution.

Emissions from the transportation sector are one of the largest contributors to urban pollution.