Sentences with phrase «where air pollution levels»

Furthermore, the researchers said it is highly likely the damage to wildlife was even greater in locations closer to the fires, where air pollution levels were 15 - times higher than those in Singapore.

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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.

Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that air is cleaner today than it was in the 1970s, more than 130 million people in the U.S. still live in places where smog or particle pollution rises to unhealthful levels.

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.

Ozone seemed to stunt the trees: Saplings in rural areas, where there was less pollution but more ozone, were smaller than urban trees, which experienced dirtier air and lower ozone levels.

But according to the American Lung Association (ALA), even though air quality around the country is improving overall, some 175 million Americans — 58 percent of the population — still live in places where pollution levels can cause breathing difficulties or worse.

Lower income populations across the world, like in rural China, are often where these high levels of indoor air pollution occur.

We recommend checking out the American Lung Association's 2007 Air Quality Report, which lists the top 25 cities for long - term particulate pollution levels, and the Realtime Air Quality Mashup By AIRNow, which, as the name suggests, delivers information in real - time about where the air quality is good (and where it's bad) in the Air Quality Report, which lists the top 25 cities for long - term particulate pollution levels, and the Realtime Air Quality Mashup By AIRNow, which, as the name suggests, delivers information in real - time about where the air quality is good (and where it's bad) in the Air Quality Mashup By AIRNow, which, as the name suggests, delivers information in real - time about where the air quality is good (and where it's bad) in the air quality is good (and where it's bad) in the US.

Automobiles are a major source of air pollution at ground level, where humans live and breathe.

It points to the case of China where the new administration is under huge pressure to reduce air pollution levels, which have soared in the past 12 months to 40 times acceptable levels, and put the government under enormous pressure to take action.

As economic development reaches a level where humans have the liberty to care about clean air and other markers of a healthy environment, a liberty purchased by increasing economic development, pollution begins to decline.

According to the company (based on information from the World Health Organization and the EPA), it might be better for people to track the air quality around them instead of focusing on their fitness trackers, as some 92 % of the world's population lives in places where the air pollution exceeds the levels considered to be «healthy», and even indoor air quality can be worse than outside air quality.