Sentences with phrase «using air pollution levels»

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But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

«Using exposure to nitrogen dioxide as a surrogate for exposure to traffic - related air pollution, we were able to demonstrate for the first time that higher levels of exposure were associated with greater right ventricular mass and larger right ventricular end - diastolic volume.

New York City's Clean Heat Program was launched in 2010 to eliminate the use of residual diesel fuel oils — diesel - based fuels that remain after gasoline and distillate fuels have been removed from crude — in residential buildings, in order to help address city air pollution levels that historically failed to meet the minimum criteria for federal Clean Air Act standarair pollution levels that historically failed to meet the minimum criteria for federal Clean Air Act standarAir Act standards.

«The AQLI uses the critical data and information gathered from our China research and applies it to every country, allowing the billions of people around the world who are exposed to high air pollution levels to estimate how much longer they would live if they breathed cleaner air,» says Greenstone.

Using a computer model that fused air pollution and atmospheric chemistry data, they estimated what annual average levels of ozone (a key smog ingredient) and fine particulates smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) were in 2010 within 100 - km - by -100-km grid squares across the world.

The team, from the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment and Health, estimated air pollution levels in the areas where the individuals lived in 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001, using measurements from Britain's extensive historic air pollution monitoring networks.

Researchers now use X-ray fluorescence spectrometry to measure air pollution metal content, ion chromatography to identify other chemicals and other tactics to assess organic and elemental carbon levels.

According to the authors, the study adopts the approach used by the EPA to determine air pollution levels.

Using carbon dioxide emissions data from 2006 and 1750 - for an estimate of preindustrial levels - Jacobson found that each extra degree of warming accounted for roughly 1,000 out of every 50,000 - 100,000 air pollution - related deaths.

Using cheap wireless sensors, air pollution levels can be monitored to assess traffic issues, and congestion on the roads

packed with common problems awaiting for solutions - global warming, urban air pollution, contaminants in drinking water / contains samples of distributions of variables, it is actually a very large Bayesian belief network, which can be used for assessment - level analyses and conditioning and optimising different decision / and discussions about the actual topics related to real - world decision - making, there is also a meta level in Opasnet.

China tops the world ratings for pollution and coal use, but high levels of air pollution have seen the government invest heavily in gas and renewables.

Given all the external costs of coal mining and coal - fired power generation in terms of water, coal ash, air and particulate pollution, this tax increase — which affects all thermal and lignite coal used in India — will help further level that playing field for non-polluting renewables.

They then used government data on air pollution to figure out the level of exposure to various pollutants of the people with appendicitis.

Using cheap wireless sensors, air pollution levels can be monitored to assess traffic issues, and congestion on the roads and in your lungs cleared up.

High levels of public transport density are usually accompanied by higher levels of traffic - related noise and air pollution, especially in urban environments typified by a concentration of tall buildings.54 Both excessive traffic - related noise and air pollution have been linked to stress, inability to psychologically restore and depression.55 56 One of the main features included in the measure of street connectivity used in this study was the presence of bridges, overpasses or tunnels.