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APRIL 25, 2023

In an open access paper in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics , researchers at the University of Surrey (UK) have investigated the effect of group riding on cyclists’ exposure to vehicle pollutants. —Schmeer et al. 2023.105333

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JUNE 19, 2020

A team of researchers, led by Professor Gavin Shaddick at the University of Exeter, has shown that, despite global efforts to improve air quality, half of the world’s population is exposed to increasing air pollution. Credit: Professor Gavin Shaddick/University of Exeter. Units for both are ?g/m

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APRIL 11, 2019

About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) air pollution, according to an open-access study published in The Lancet Planetary Health by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH).

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JANUARY 6, 2019

Urban planners should plant hedges—or a combination of trees with hedges—rather than just relying on roadside trees if they are most effectively to reduce pollution exposure from cars in near-road environments, according to a new study from the University of Surrey.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

University of Kentucky Chemistry Professor Marcelo Guzman has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research, education and outreach efforts in the field of environmental and atmospheric chemistry. Both types of emissions cause tiny particles to be suspended in air. —Prof. —Prof.

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JANUARY 8, 2023

The Health Effects Institute (HEI) has launched two new studies funded under RFA 21-1, Quantifying Real-World Impacts of Non-Tailpipe Particulate Matter Emissions. The new studies are: Improved Characterization of the Real-World Contributions and Impacts of Non-tailpipe Particulate Matter Emissions ,” led by Greg Evans, University of Toronto.

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APRIL 4, 2022

A study by three French institutes—Ifremer, the University of Bordeaux and the IRD (a public research institution)—has found that the surface water of the Atlantic Ocean is twice as polluted by cellulose fibers as it is by microplastics. —Catherine Dreanno.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants, especially O 3 (ozone), is significantly associated with increasing emphysema, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. This work in the MESA Air study was led at the University of Washington.

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

Less traffic on the roads during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the UK led to a reduction in air pollution but may have caused potentially damaging surface ozone levels to rise, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of York. —Professor Lee.

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OCTOBER 6, 2019

A new study is the first to report evidence that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin may lessen the adverse effects of air pollution exposure on lung function. While the mechanism is unknown, the researchers speculate that NSAIDs mitigate inflammation brought about by air pollution. 201905-1003LE.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A new study shows that this well-intentioned centralized system of regulating may be ineffective in reaching national goals. This caused tracked firms to be significantly less productive and firms not tracked to continue to pollute. A 10% reduction in pollution led to a 3% drop in productivity for China’s polluting industries.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

A new study led by researchers from Northwestern University projects that if electric vehicles replaced 25% of combustion engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and air pollution.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

In early 2013, the Chinese government declared a war on air pollution and began instituting stringent policies to regulate the emissions of PM 2.5. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST), found that while PM 2.5

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JULY 1, 2020

A new study finds that automated pollution monitors in China led to more accurate readings and that citizens used this information to protect themselves better against the harms of air pollution. The central government knew it needed to improve air quality, but that it would be impossible without knowing true pollution levels.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

A new study led by University of Chicago researchers finds an association between exposure to environmental pollution and an increase in the prevalence of neuropsychiatric disorders. For the Danish cohort, the team studied study 4 psychiatric disorders: bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorder, and depression.

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JANUARY 13, 2019

A study by researchers from the National University of Singapore Department of Economics ( NUS Economics ) has found a correlation between pollution and productivity of employees. The study, the first of its kind to examine prolonged exposure to air pollution, was published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

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OCTOBER 20, 2018

A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that deaths related to air pollution in the US were nearly halved between 1990 and 2010. The open-access study is published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. —Jason West, study co-author. Zhang et al.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Fossil fuel combustion, a major source of air pollution, contributed to more than one million deaths globally in 2017, more than 27% of all deaths from outdoor fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), according to a new report published by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). pollution and its health impacts. Absolute ambient PM 2.5

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MAY 10, 2021

Exposure to air pollution, even over the course of just a few weeks, can impede mental performance, according to a new study led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The study is among the first to explore short-term air pollution exposures and the use of NSAIDs to mitigate their effects.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In a cohort study of a subset of 2050 newborns from the Children’s Health Study in southern California, researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) found that an increase of 2 standard deviations in prenatal exposure to particulate matter in air pollution was associated with higher newborn total thyroxine (TT4) measures.

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MARCH 4, 2020

Air pollution is responsible for shortening people’s lives worldwide on a scale far greater than wars and other forms of violence, parasitic and vector-born diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and smoking, according to an open-access study published in Cardiovascular Research. The global total is 233 (221–250) million per year.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Replacing all of the oldest, highly polluting school buses in the US could lead to 1.3 million fewer daily absences annually, according to a University of Michigan study. Even relatively short commutes on school buses can dominate students’ daily air pollution exposures.

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MAY 30, 2019

A new University at Buffalo (UB) study based on levels before, during and after the Beijing Olympics has shown how air pollution affects the human body at the level of metabolites. Metabolites are small molecules that are the end products of environmental exposures, such as air pollution, and body metabolism.

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AUGUST 24, 2019

Heavily polluted areas have a higher rate of angioplasty procedures to treat blocked arteries than areas with clean air, according to research to be presented at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology. Procedures are even more common in winter, the most polluted time of year. additional PCIs per week.

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MAY 30, 2019

New York City Clean Air Taxi rules are successful in cutting emissions and reducing air pollution, [link] to a new study by researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Drexel University. —Dustin Fry, MPH, a researcher at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

A major new international study shows independent associations between short-term exposure to PM 10 and PM 2.5 These data reinforce the evidence of a link between mortality and PM concentration established in regional and local studies, according to the researchers. Perhaps the most interesting result of the study by Liu et al.

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AUGUST 24, 2018

pollution shortens human lives by more than a year, according to a new open-access study from a team of environmental engineers and public health researchers published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology Letters. This study marks the first time that data on PM 2.5 Source: Apte et al. —Joshua Apte.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A study from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California has provided some real-world observations about electric vehicles and how they positively impact the environment. The study’s findings were outlined in an Abstract published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

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APRIL 2, 2019

A new study finds that environmental damage caused by corn production results in 4,300 premature deaths annually in the United States, representing a monetized cost of $39 billion. Production-weighted national average human mortality per million tonnes of maize produced, by pollutant and supply chain stage. a, Absolute mortality.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

The study focuses on the period between 2005 and 2018 and tracks combustion emissions of various polluting compounds from various sectors, looking at every state in the contiguous United States, from season to season and year to year. —study leader Steven Barrett, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT.

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DECEMBER 23, 2018

A 2015 study found a 138% risk of increase of AD per increase of 4.34 ?g/m The study by heightens concerns over the evolving and relentless Alzheimer’s pathology observed in young Metropolitan Mexico City (MMC) urbanites. This study focused on studying 507 CSF normal samples from children, teens and young adults average age 12.8±6.7

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FEBRUARY 19, 2017

A new study, led by a team from The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York, has found that in 2010, about 2.7 The open-access study is published in the journal. Recent research has suggested that exposure to air pollution could also be a risk factor. Environment International. Malley et al.

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JUNE 11, 2018

More 3,000 primary school children in polluted areas of London and Luton will have their lung health monitored over a four-year period in a new international study launched by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Pollution also triggers asthma, asthma attacks and chest infections.

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APRIL 10, 2019

A new study by a team from the University of New Mexico, University of Washington and the University of Minnesota examines the health and economic impacts of PM 2.5 pollution (particulates and precursors) in the United States. Of these deaths, 57% were associated with pollution caused by energy consumption [e.g.,

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MAY 10, 2019

The processes that create ozone pollution in the summer can also trigger the formation of wintertime air pollution, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA, in partnership with the University of Utah. —Womack et al. To combat wintertime PM 2.5

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JULY 1, 2018

A study by a team from Washington University School of Medicine in St. pollution—even at levels deemed safe—to an increased risk of diabetes globally. Our research shows a significant link between air pollution and diabetes globally. Previous studies have found that PM 2.5 They also estimated that 8.2

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MARCH 12, 2019

Air pollution could be causing double the number of excess deaths a year in Europe than has been estimated previously, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal. Air pollution caused twice as many deaths from CVD as from respiratory diseases. The researchers found that air pollution caused an estimated 8.8

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