For exam ple, we don't want to protect our climate by clouding our skies
with air pollutants.
Land use and emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases are reported mostly at a 0.5 × 0.5 degree spatial resolution,
with air pollutants also provided per sector (for well - mixed gases, a coarser resolution is used).
In other words, what Bush has done is try to minimise the dangers from CO2 by lumping them in
with the air pollutants SO2 and NO2.
The twist is that oily hair also interacts
with air pollutants to create respiratory irritants such as formaldehyde and 4 - oxopentanal.
For the coal system, the study estimates the toxicity associated
with air pollutants emitted during power generation, as well as toxic chemical releases during the coal - mining process from acid - mine drainage and coal - ash impoundment.
Some forests emit chemicals called terpenes that when catalysed by sunlight are known to react
with air pollutants to create ozone.
Not exact matches
I think we've been very clear
with respect to greenhouse gas emissions,
with respect to
air pollutants, that we will regulate, working
with the United States.
There are many different types of changes in an ambient environment — some very fast like electromagnetic waves, some very slow like the accumulation of
pollutants in the
air, and some
with rapid onsets and offsets but long durations like rainfall.
Think again, the food and agriculture nonprofit, Cornucopia Institute, found that most non-organic veggie burgers currently on the market are made
with the chemical hexane, an EPA - registered
air pollutant and neurotoxin.
New School: Since driving around your gas guzzler spewing
pollutants into the
air is frowned upon today, the new school way of soothing a crying baby through movement is to place the baby in your arms, stand
with your feet slightly more than hip - width apart, and swivel back and forth at the hips.
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Think about it: the
air we breathe is laden
with impurities, like dust, germs,
pollutants, fumes from perfumes, laundry detergents and other chemicals, pet dander... While an adult's nasal passages may be able to handle those impurities, a newborn's is so undeveloped that those impurities can irritate and clog up those passages.
The study was conducted in Jena, Germany, a city
with 100,000 residents and only a few days over the last several years during which concentrations of some
air pollutants exceeded EU daily limits.
Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist
with Environment Canada's
Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic
pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.
«Understanding how these
pollutants interact
with the environment, including snow, is crucial if we are to reduce the hundreds of thousands of premature deaths caused by mild
air pollution in North America.
«Despite some reductions in
air pollutant emissions in Europe and North America, human health impacts from ozone are still a cause for concern across the world and are rising in parts of East Asia,
with the potential for serious health effects on their populations,» said Zo?
One study, reported in JAMA last year, followed 4,602 children in Southern California between 1993 and 2012 to see how lung health correlated
with three common
air pollutants.
The device can be used to directly test for toxicity and toxic mechanisms, screen for drugs that reduce irritation, and assess the level of risks associated
with a particular
air pollutant.
Additionally, natural light even
with its beneficial ability to lessen chances of acquiring myopia can be tainted
with pollutants and less - than - fresh
air can play
with our sense of smell, Hoover said.
Ecosystems provide the most basic provisioning services — food, firewood, and medicines — along
with the so - called regulating services of a fully functional environment, which include cleaning the
air, purifying water, controlling floods and erosion, storing carbon, and detoxifying
pollutants in soils.
However, there was no significant evidence of an association between early postnatal life (during the first year of life), recent and current exposures to outdoor
air pollutants with lung function at preschool age.
This wearable device reveals exposure to the three worst
pollutants, linking it
with online maps to help you avoid poor
air, a bit like a Fitbit for pollution
The committee — often known by its acronym, CASAC — is a seven - member body charged
with providing outside expertise during EPA's assessments of the agency's
air quality standards for a half - dozen major
pollutants.
Teaming up
with Shamsh Pervez, Ph.D., a professor of Chemistry at the Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, India and a 2011 Fulbright fellow to DRI, Chakrabarty designed and executed a comprehensive study to investigate the nature and impact of
pollutant particles emitted from the widely - prevalent cultural practice of open -
air funeral pyre burning in India and Nepal.
Focusing on the year 2007, the researchers found that of the 3.45 million premature deaths caused by fine - particulate - matter
air pollution, about 12 percent were related to
pollutants emitted in a different region of the world, and 22 percent were associated
with goods produced in one region for consumption in another.
The pollution problem is not restricted to outdoor
air, as families in developing countries also encounter pollution inside the home; according to Pinkerton, almost half the world prepares food
with wood, charcoal or coal, all common sources of
air pollutants.
The 2010 studies from Berkeley Lab found that residual nicotine can react
with ozone and nitrous acid — both common indoor
air pollutants — to form hazardous agents.
Since
air from North America could not have contaminated Cheeka Peak
with winds blowing from the west, the next step was identifying the true source of the
pollutants.
Called the Flame Refluxer, the technology, developed by fire protection engineering researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
with funding from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), could make it possible to burn off spilled oil quickly while producing relatively low levels of
air pollutants.
I am happy that we succeeded in providing a quantitative estimate of the effect of
air pollutant on surface solar radiation in interaction
with wind,» says Changgui Lin, the leading author of the article and researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg.
The material, described in Frontiers in Chemistry, is synthesized inexpensively from solid wastes and a naturally abundant polymer — and can cut down
pollutants in
air and wastewater
with more success than activated carbon, the current gold standard adsorbent.
Metropolitan areas
with the large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both
air pollutants, they wrote, would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.
Plant - emitted hydrocarbons break down through chemical interactions
with certain
air pollutants such as ozone.
As temperatures rise, energy demands peak,
with a corresponding increase in
air pollutants.
Unless emissions of specific
pollutants that are associated
with the formation of ozone are sharply cut, almost all of the continental United States will experience at least a few days
with unhealthy
air during the summers, the research shows.
Air pollutants interact
with and break down plant - emitted scent molecules, which insect pollinators use to locate needed food, according to a team of researchers led by Penn State.
In addition to providing the
air we breathe and the weather we experience, the troposphere is laced
with a compound called the hydroxyl radical — abbreviated OH — which bonds to
pollutants like bromines and droplets of sulfates called aerosols.
This information was analyzed along
with measurements of two
air pollutants in their homes — fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2)-- as well as outdoor temperatures during the study period.
Communities of color and those
with low education and high poverty and unemployment may face greater health risks even if their
air quality meets federal health standards.A pervasive
air pollutant, the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is a mixture of emissions from diesel engines, power plants, refineries and other sources of combustion.
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.
Simultaneous exposure to toxic
air pollutants can worsen allergic responses.24, 156,25,157 Extreme rainfall and rising temperatures can also foster indoor
air quality problems, including the growth of indoor fungi and molds,
with increases in respiratory and asthma - related conditions.27, 28,29,30 Asthma prevalence (the percentage of people who have ever been diagnosed
with asthma and still have asthma) increased nationwide from 7.3 % in 2001 to 8.4 % in 2010.
Indoor
air quality is a concern especially in low - income and minority communities as studies show levels of indoor
pollutants are often higher in these groups compared
with more affluent homes.
Lead report author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the
Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute and associate professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.&raq
Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute and associate professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states
with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both
air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.&raq
air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.»
Meanwhile, national oil and gas production has been booming,
with few regulations to keep
air pollutants like methane in check.
One of the greatest concerns
with wildfires is their impact on
air quality and associated health consequences; PM2.5 is just one of the
pollutants in wildfire smoke, but its small size makes it a well - known threat to people's health.
In preparation for the Olympics, Beijing officials took strict measures in the city and surrounding regions to control
air pollutants including particles
with diameters less than 2.5 microns.
Berkeley Lab scientists first sounded the warning on thirdhand smoke
with a pair of studies in 2010 establishing that nicotine in thirdhand smoke can react
with common indoor
air pollutants to produce dangerous carcinogens.
Air pollution is broadly defined as the presence in the air of any pollutant (or substance) that directly or indirectly endangers, interferes with, causes damages, degrades or alters human health, animal health, the environment, or ecosyste
Air pollution is broadly defined as the presence in the
air of any pollutant (or substance) that directly or indirectly endangers, interferes with, causes damages, degrades or alters human health, animal health, the environment, or ecosyste
air of any
pollutant (or substance) that directly or indirectly endangers, interferes
with, causes damages, degrades or alters human health, animal health, the environment, or ecosystems.
Sometimes, when an
air pollutant, such as sulfuric acid combines
with the water droplets that make up clouds, the water droplets become acidic, forming acid rain.
The study, which controlled for levels of
pollutants and allergens in the
air (which are affected by weather), found that a 10 - degree increase in temperature and a 10 % change in humidity were associated
with a slight uptick in asthma - related emergency room visits.