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NOVEMBER 28, 2021
An international team of scientists, led by NTU Singapore, has linked increased air pollution to an uptick in cases of lung adenocarcinoma (LADC) worldwide. The results of the study were published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. Black carbon is a pollutant that is classified as under PM 2.5.
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AUGUST 29, 2011
Urban regions account for an ever increasing fraction of Earth’s population, and are consequently an ever increasing source of air pollutants. These pollutants include anthropogenic aerosols, which have important climate and health implications.
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AUGUST 29, 2009
Seven of the 28 projects, which will be led by Dr PK Wong, Deputy Director (Research) at A*STAR’s Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), will develop technologies to capture, store and utilize carbon dioxide effectively to address the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide and reduce its adverse effect on the environment.
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DECEMBER 21, 2016
Shanghai Port, surpassing Singapore Port, has become the world’s largest container shipping port for five consecutive years (2010−2014). This may have caused substantial atmospheric pollution and worsened the current air-pollution situation in megacity Shanghai. When wind speed is less than 0.5 —Liu et al. 6b03834.
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JUNE 27, 2012
But while leaded gasoline usage has decreased drastically in the last few decades, lead is still pervasive in the environment. The result, he says, is that the Indian Ocean has had less time than the Atlantic and Pacific to dissipate lead pollution. This research was funded by the Singapore National Research Foundation.
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JUNE 24, 2015
Cities have long been at the forefront of sustainable, multimodal mobility due to the transportation demands placed on a city by a large, densely located population, as well as the negative effects of congestion and pollution caused by choking traffic. These services have quickly become big businesses and are poised for further growth.
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FEBRUARY 16, 2015
Asian cities show the most divergence, with Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore in the top ten and Manila, Mumbai, Wuhan and New Delhi forming four of the bottom five cites. The German cities of Frankfurt and Berlin lead the way in the Planet sub-ranking, scoring well for waste management and low levels of air pollution in particular.
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