Sentences with phrase «with more air pollution»

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This holds whether we are thinking of how to grow more grain in the tropics, reduce the birth rate, control inflation, stimulate economic growth, get rid of tooth decay, provide better health care, find some way to turn garbage into a useful resource, reduce air pollution, win the next election, avoid war with Russia, develop human potential, extend the length of life, or find a cure for cancer.

The Chinese EPA has named Qingyuan County the most ecologically pure county of the more than 1,500 counties in all of China with the purest water and air and the least pollution.

More than two of every five Americans reside in counties with unhealthy levels of smog and air pollution, thanks largely to the effect of global warming, health researchers report.

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club commented: «Mike Bloomberg's partnership with the Sierra Club and our more than 3 million members and supporters has put our country on a path to cleaner air and cleaner water, good - paying clean energy jobs, and healthier communities that are safe from toxic coal pollution».

«Over the years, I have worked with Senator Espaillat to address problems in our communities including the need for more affordable housing, the air pollution that causes asthma and other health issues, and to improve the quality of our education programs,» Mr. Farrell told the Observer.

That's why for more than a decade, she has not only shared her air quality data with city, state and federal agencies who manage air pollution, she asks for their input on research projects as they are evolving...

«These trains will not only provide passengers with faster journeys, more seats and a more comfortable travelling experience, but they are also quieter and greener, significantly reducing noise and air pollution for passengers and our thousands of line - side neighbours.»

A new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than in those with lower levels of PM2.5.

Air pollution trapped by winter inversions along Utah's Wasatch Front, the state's most populated region, is estimated to send more than 200 people to the emergency room with pneumonia each year, according to a study by University of Utah Health and Intermountain Healthcare.

New Jersey neighborhoods with a majority of black residents are on average twice as close as other neighborhoods to major industrial sources of air pollution, the researchers found, and more likely to be near busy highways that produce high concentrations of harmful particulate matter.

With more than 70 percent of China's energy coming from coal, a power source that contributes heavily to air pollution and global warming, the nation's bad or good energy practices in buildings will be reflected in the color of the sky and the temperature of the Earth.

High temperatures make it harder for the body to cool off, and they exacerbate air pollution, leading to more hospital visits from people with vulnerable hearts and lungs, particularly the very young and the elderly.

Indeed, many observers insist that, at least for the next decade or so, the best way to reduce air pollution and cut down on oil consumption is to come up with cleaner - burning gasoline and more efficient gasoline engines.

More than 22,000 acute respiratory tract infections have been reported in South Sumatra alone, with air pollution affecting people as far afield as Singapore and Malaysia.

The study also found that, although transmitting coal power was slightly more effective at reducing air pollution impacts than simply replacing old coal power plants with newer, cleaner ones in the east, both coal scenarios had approximately the same carbon emissions.

More than 3.5 billion people — half of the world's population — live in nations with unsafe levels of air pollution.

Less dust means the air stagnates, with human - made pollution becoming more concentrated and sticking around longer.

So the agency should not improve only communication between its researchers who study air and water, but also talk more with scientists at the U.S. departments of agriculture and energy, who also work on nitrogen pollution, the report finds.

«Exposure to air pollution 30 years ago associated with increased risk of death: Exposure to air pollution more than 30 years ago may still affect an individual's mortality risk today.»

«I am pleased that the judge agrees with us that the government could and should be doing more to deal with air pollution and protecting people's health,» says James Thornton, head of ClientEarth.

Efforts to improve irrigation in sun - scorched regions, or to replace sensitive crops with more resilient varieties, could be less effective if ozone pollution keeps dirtying the air.

«Efforts should be made to limit air pollution emissions, with more emphasis on moving towards cleaner cities with fewer cars and more efficient public transport.»

In January, a study linked higher air pollution with behaviors that are less «prosocial,» a decline the study describes as giving less, cooperating and reciprocating less, and demanding more — which can affect both individual and group decision - making.

In China, scientists estimate air pollution reduces average life expectancy by more than three years, but that this could be halved with stringent climate mitigation.

Air and water pollution from fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, killing more than 1,000,000 people per year and affecting the health of billions of people [232], [234], with costs borne by the public.

Scientists from 32 powerhouse organizations including the American Public Health Association and the American Chemical Society just penned Congress a letter highlighting a «vast body of peer - reviewed science» that proves the severity of climate change and urging them to take action with legislation that more strictly regulates industrial air pollution.

Older women who live in areas with high levels of pollution (specifically fine particulate matter, which consists of extremely small particles that can be inhaled deep in the lungs) are 92 % more likely to develop dementia than women living in cleaner - air climates, according to a 2017 study.

You'll need more antioxidants to tackle the acne from air pollution, and that handy reference guide in your head would tell you that sprinkling oregano onto foods is the easiest way ever to flood your body with antioxidants.

So it's critical to replenish your antioxidant stores both internally and externally morning and night, and even more frequently if you engage in intense exercise, live in an urban center with lots of pollution in the air, or expose your skin to the sun.

A person with a chemical sensitivity has an immune reaction to chemicals and heavy metals in air pollution, pesticides, plastics, adhesives, household cleaners, cosmetics, perfumes, and more.

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With more than 2,000 schools and nurseries across the country located close to roads with illegal levels of pollution [1], the National Education Union (NEU) has joined forces with the British Lung Foundation (BLF), and today publish guidance warning school staff and pupils about the dangers of air pollutWith more than 2,000 schools and nurseries across the country located close to roads with illegal levels of pollution [1], the National Education Union (NEU) has joined forces with the British Lung Foundation (BLF), and today publish guidance warning school staff and pupils about the dangers of air pollutwith illegal levels of pollution [1], the National Education Union (NEU) has joined forces with the British Lung Foundation (BLF), and today publish guidance warning school staff and pupils about the dangers of air pollutwith the British Lung Foundation (BLF), and today publish guidance warning school staff and pupils about the dangers of air pollution.

The underlying motivation varies from buyer to buyer and usually involves one or more of these objectives: diminishing the demand for foreign oil, potentially releasing less pollution and carbon, saving money on cost per mile, driving solo in carpool lanes and / or irritating friends and strangers with an air of superiority.

The SRTS program provides money to help communities enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school; to make walking and bicycling to school safe and more appealing; and to facilitate the planning, development and implementation of projects that will improve safety, and reduce traffic, fuel consumption, and air pollution in the vicinity of schools.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

Cuts pollution further, faster, cheaper, and with more certainty, replacing litigation with rapid and certain improvements in air quality.

Premature deaths worldwide from outdoor air pollution rise from 3 million today to more than 4 million in 2040 in the New Policies Scenario, even though pollution control technologies are applied more widely and other emissions are avoided because energy services are provided more efficiently or (as with wind and solar) without fuel combustion.

With air pollution causing more than one million deaths in 2015 and reducing the lifespan of citizens in northern China by three years, clean energy has become a top priority for China's leaders.

The study determined that the small and, in some cases, statistically insignificant improvements in air quality in a few locations could have been achieved more cheaply with pollution control devices like scrubbers, which would have eliminated 95 percent of the particulate emissions.

In February 2015, the EPA responded to similar attacks on the Clean Power Plan by pointing out that, ``... at no time in the more than 40 years that EPA has been implementing the Clean Air Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.&raqAir Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.&raqair pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.»

on the Clean Power Plan by pointing out that, ``... at no time in the more than 40 years that EPA has been implementing the Clean Air Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.&raqAir Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.&raqair pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.»

A study published in the journal Nature in September last year showed that outdoor air pollution is linked with 3.3 million premature deaths per year, which is more than those caused by AIDS and malaria making it the world's biggest single killer.

More than 20 million people in the Midwest experience air quality that fails to meet national ambient air quality standards.14 Degraded air quality due to human - induced emissions66 and increased pollen season duration67 are projected to be amplified with higher temperatures, 68 and pollution and pollen exposures, in addition to heat waves, can harm human health (Ch.

With less pollution in the air and a more stable climate, the plan was projected to prevent 90,000 asthma attacks in children, 300,000 missed work and school days, and up to 3,600 premature deaths by 2030.

«Although the effects of other unmeasured risk factors can not be excluded with certainty, these results suggest that fine - particulate air pollution, or a more complex pollution mixture associated with fine particulate matter, contributes to excess mortality in certain US cities.»

But now due to aesthetic and sanitary environmental reasons; driven by increasing populations disposing of ever more; with resultant air and water pollution, and new toxic man made materials and modern commercial industrial chemical cocktails (some with a toxic half life of thousands of years); we now find the need to construct landfills with the contents better contained and separated from the environment.

An environmental engineer and applied meteorologist for more than 30 years, Dr. Umenhofer has served as an air - and water - quality consultant to industry and government, with expertise in pollution control and local / federal environmental policy development.

Atmospheric warming will also lead to more health issues related to air pollution, which tends to increase with higher temperatures.

The impacts of its reliance on coal are becoming more well known and recently there was much online discussion after an eight - year - old girl was diagnosed with lung cancer which her doctor blamed on air pollution.

Yet it has a long way to go to catch up with fossil fuels, which currently provide more than three - quarters of heat production globally, resulting in significant CO2 emissions and in some cases adding to local air pollution.