• Human-caused outdoor air pollution may be responsible for over two million deaths worldwide - a large number of them in South Asia and East Asia - each year, US researchers have said. (daijiworld.com)
  • Our estimates make outdoor air pollution among the most important environmental risk factors for health," co-author of the study, Jason West, from the University of North Carolina, said in a statement. (daijiworld.com)
  • Much outdoor air pollution comes from burning fuels to generate heat and electricity and from vehicles. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • ISLAMABAD (Online) - Outdoor air pollution contributes to the deaths of an estimated 1.6 million people in China every year, or about 4,400 people a day, according to a newly released scientific paper. (com.pk)
  • Some 9% of the global disease burden of lung cancer is attributed to occupation and 5% to outdoor air pollution. (who.int)
  • Teach patients how to avoid asthma triggers such as tobacco smoke, mold, pet dander, and outdoor air pollution. (cdc.gov)
  • That increase is offset by fewer pollution deaths from primitive indoor stoves and water contaminated with human and animal waste, so overall pollution deaths in 2019 are about the same as 2015. (scrippsnews.com)
  • The United States is the only fully industrialized country in the top 10 nations for total pollution deaths, ranking 7th with 142,883 deaths blamed on pollution in 2019, sandwiched between Bangladesh and Ethiopia, according to a new study in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health. (scrippsnews.com)
  • New research published this morning shows that air pollution killed just over 1.8m people in 2019 alone. (cityam.com)
  • In this study, we found that the global average urban PM2.5 concentration in 2019 was 35 μg/m3, which is over three times the WHO 2005 guideline for annual average PM2.5 (10 μg/m3), resulting in 45 to 77 premature deaths per 100,000 people. (cityam.com)
  • In 2019, pollution killed nine million people worldwide (one in six deaths), a number unchanged since 2015. (wikipedia.org)
  • se seleccionaron 11 estudios publicados en el período 2019-2020. (bvsalud.org)
  • Air pollution is prematurely killing 13,000 people a year in Britain compared with fewer than 2,000 deaths a year from road accidents, a major study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has concluded. (londonminingnetwork.org)
  • Coal particulate pollution, on the other hand, kills fewer than 13,000 people per year. (forbes.com)
  • That air pollution remains the leading cause of death in South Asia reconfirms what is already known, but the increase in these deaths means that toxic emissions from vehicles and energy generation is increasing, said Anumita Roychowdhury, a director at the advocacy group Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi. (scrippsnews.com)
  • The dip in the air quality was caused by a combination of dust from the Sahara Desert, emissions from the continent, low south-easterly winds and domestic pollution. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • But it said that local action can be taken to reduce the emissions of these man-made particles and people's exposure to air pollution. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Our study shows that it is particularly important to reduce pollution emissions from residential energy use in Asia. (immortal.org)
  • For certain pollutants -- such as sulfur dioxide and coarse particle pollution -- the emissions caused by parking spaces were actually greater or equal to the amounts produced by driving. (streetsblog.org)
  • This simple exercise helps explain the growing popularity of once-rare phrases like "carbon pollution" and "climate pollution" in place of "carbon emissions" or the older "greenhouse gases. (grist.org)
  • I think 'pollution' is a better word to use than 'emissions,' because everyone understands that pollution is harmful," said Susan Joy Hassol, the director of Climate Communication, a nonprofit for science outreach. (grist.org)
  • The Inflation Reduction Act , the landmark climate legislation signed by President Joe Biden in August, amends the 1970 Clean Air Act to clearly identify greenhouse gas emissions as a form of air pollution . (grist.org)
  • Environmental justice advocates, on the other hand, have argued that global emissions and local air pollution were inextricably linked and needed to be addressed together. (grist.org)
  • To describe greenhouse gas emissions, Hassol likes the phrase "heat-trapping pollution," since people don't need special background knowledge to comprehend it. (grist.org)
  • Very few people can actually grasp it-or certainly be moved by it-but the air pollution from carbon emissions is visible and affects people directly. (ucsd.edu)
  • Some people that I have talked to hide behind China, the new leader in greenhouse gas emissions. (patheos.com)
  • Forty years since the First World Climate conference, greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. (patheos.com)
  • Key drivers of the cuts include residents getting their homes off of oil heating, gas emissions falling thanks to people driving less, the province lowering its reported GHGs from electricity production and Hartland Landfill gas levels dropping. (nanaimobulletin.com)
  • The reductions from 2007 levels were outlined in the 2022 Climate Leadership Plan progress report, a third-party emissions inventory that's prepared for the city every two years. (nanaimobulletin.com)
  • In 2017, those emissions were equivalent to what s given off by more than 130,000 cars driven for a year. (democraticunderground.com)
  • Those farm animals are also responsible for 18 percent of the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere every year, methane emissions that scientists say are warming the earth's climate. (voanews.com)
  • Globally CO2 emissions only decreased by less than 6% last year but by December they had rebounded to their previous levels. (bvsalud.org)
  • The global average is 117 pollution deaths per 100,000 people. (scrippsnews.com)
  • On April 29, as part of the People's Climate Movement, over 100,000 people will gather to march in Washington D.C. to demonstrate widespread and overwhelming support for immediate and drastic climate action. (thedp.com)
  • India and China lead the world in pollution deaths with nearly 2.4 million and almost 2.2 million deaths a year, but the two nations also have the world's largest populations. (scrippsnews.com)
  • In New Delhi, India, air pollution peaks in the winter months, and last year the city saw just two days when the air wasn't considered polluted. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Maybe not everyone can understand the real value and meaning of clean air, but the fact is according to the WEF report 1.25 million people are killed by air pollution in India every year. (blackbirdnews.com)
  • In India, some 400,000 people die each year from the toxic fumes. (rawa.org)
  • Asia and Africa are the regions putting the most people at risk, the study found, while India tops the list of individual countries. (apnews.com)
  • One out of every four premature deaths in India in 2015, or some 2.5 million, was attributed to pollution. (apnews.com)
  • India has 300 clear and sunny days a year on average, enough to produce 5,000 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year. (commondreams.org)
  • Lavakare, the clean air advocate, says India needs to fight pollution as if it were a war. (wunc.org)
  • FRAYER: Except in India today, people are getting used to this pollution. (wunc.org)
  • The report claims that the death toll from air pollution could double by 2050 if things stay the way they are. (immortal.org)
  • As we've reported before, antibiotic resistance is a growing catastrophe and expected to kill ten million people a year worldwide by 2050. (anh-usa.org)
  • This rate will only increase, as climate change is expected to cause 250,000 more deaths per year between 2030 and 2050. (thedp.com)
  • Basically, meat production and consumption will both need to double by the year 2050," said Morgan. (voanews.com)
  • Smoke from domestic fires kills nearly two million people each year and sickens millions more, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). (rawa.org)
  • Figuring out why children are so unaffected could lead to breakthroughs in understanding how and why the virus sickens and kills other age groups, said Frank Esper, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Cleveland Clinic Children's. (boston.com)
  • Pollution sickens and kills millions of people worldwide each year. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Climate change affects air quality in many ways, possibly leading to local increases or decreases in air pollution, it said. (daijiworld.com)
  • We found that the effects of past climate change are likely to be a very small component of the overall effect of air pollution," West added. (daijiworld.com)
  • Coal's history has been intertwined with growth, the industrial age, and lately, pollution and climate change. (marketplace.org)
  • There's been a lot of study of pollution, but it's never received the resources or level of attention as, say, AIDS or climate change," said epidemiologist Philip Landrigan, dean of global health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and the lead author of the report. (apnews.com)
  • California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. (grist.org)
  • Positioning climate change as a pollution problem might have bigger consequences than you'd think. (grist.org)
  • Over the past decade, more people have come around to seeing climate change as a threat to their health, not simply an "environmental" problem. (grist.org)
  • Not only does connecting climate change to pollution make the problem relevant to people's lives, but it also makes acting on it more popular. (grist.org)
  • This book is a product of an alliance between leaders in science, engineering, economics, policy, medicine, and religion, and it is such alliances that can catalyze the sort of transformational change we need to solve the climate change problem," write the co-editors of Health of People . (ucsd.edu)
  • Air pollution and climate change are force-multipliers that escalate communicable vector-borne viral disease as well as non-communicable illnesses such as cardiovascular and respiratory disease. (ucsd.edu)
  • 166,000 people die each year from climate change related events. (thedp.com)
  • Climate change kills more people per year than war, murder and traffic accidents combined. (thedp.com)
  • Climate change is responsible for far more deaths per year than terrorism. (thedp.com)
  • Immediate climate action is necessary to help the people that climate change affects. (thedp.com)
  • Climate change doesn t ignite wildfires, but it s intensifying the hot, dry summer conditions that have helped fuel some of California s deadliest and most destructive fires in recent years. (democraticunderground.com)
  • Four out of 5 CVD deaths are due to heart attacks and strokes, and one third of these deaths occur prematurely in people under 70 years of age. (who.int)
  • Various definitions of pollution exist, which may or may not recognize certain types, such as noise pollution or greenhouse gases. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tobacco smoke contributes to higher air pollution levels and contains three kinds of greenhouse gases. (who.int)
  • They list heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, other lung issues and diabetes that are 'tightly correlated' with pollution by numerous epidemiological studies, Landrigan said. (scrippsnews.com)
  • He comments were echoed by Dr Penny Woods, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation, who said: 'With the high levels of pollution we experienced last week there has been a lot of discussion about the short-term effects it can have on people's health, particularly to those living with a lung condition. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Strokes and heart attacks are responsible for nearly 75 percent of air pollution-related mortality," he said, adding that a "little over 25 percent is related to respiratory disease and lung cancer. (immortal.org)
  • Air pollution deaths are most commonly from heart disease, strokes or the lung disease known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (srtc.org)
  • When it comes to the health impacts of air pollution, most people think of lung and heart issues. (foodrevolution.org)
  • According to the American Lung Association's annual "State of the Air" report, released in April and covering the years 2015-2017, Los Angeles holds the worst air pollution in the nation. (cnn.com)
  • The patients were all healthy when they started the study, and researchers controlled for factors that could compromise lung health, including age and whether the person was a smoker or was regularly exposed to secondhand smoke. (cnn.com)
  • The increase in emphysema we observed was relatively large, similar to the lung damage caused by 29 pack-years of smoking and 3 years of aging," said Dr. R. Graham Barr, the Hamilton Southworth professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and a senior author of the paper. (cnn.com)
  • FRAYER: Lavakare lost her mother to lung cancer a few years ago. (wunc.org)
  • Most people had some eye, nose, or throat irritation, but the people most affected by those levels were those with preexisting heart or lung disease. (medscape.com)
  • Being around the smoke from other people (secondhand smoke) also raises your risk of lung cancer. (medlineplus.gov)
  • But some people who have never smoked do develop lung cancer. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Constant exposure to high levels of air pollution and drinking water that has a high level of arsenic can increase your risk of lung cancer. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Much of China's air pollution comes from the large-scale burning of coal. (com.pk)
  • New numbers show that China's coal production will likely grow about 3 percent this year, despite a government campaign to cut air pollution. (marketplace.org)
  • China's environment was the second deadliest, with more than 1.8 million premature deaths, or one in five, blamed on pollution-related illness, the study found. (apnews.com)
  • Without such a monitoring framework, few studies have considered the impacts of a variety of sources of air pollution outside urban areas in Africa, Bauer says, and the studies that have been published have given widely varying estimates, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. (astroglossary.ca)
  • Then they used epidemiological models to predict the health impacts of the pollution in 2016. (astroglossary.ca)
  • Experts say the 9 million premature deaths the study found was just a partial estimate, and the number of people killed by pollution is undoubtedly higher and will be quantified once more research is done and new methods of assessing harmful impacts are developed. (apnews.com)
  • The past two years have also highlighted that climate impacts are already being felt in Victoria and that the city is not yet fully prepared," the report states. (nanaimobulletin.com)
  • When he learned how much pollution comes from the Wheelabrator site and its potential health impacts he thought of neighbors who had died. (democraticunderground.com)
  • We'll be talking about health impacts of hurricanes and the fact that they cover a lot more than people used to think they did until our multi-hurricane challenge of last year. (cdc.gov)
  • Based on peer-reviewed models that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Research Council use to evaluate lives saved by air pollution regulations, the amount of pollution released by Covanta in recent years would cause between 13 and 28 premature deaths per year . (ejnet.org)
  • Three-quarters of the overall pollution deaths came from air pollution and the overwhelming part of that is 'a combination of pollution from stationary sources like coal-fired power plants and steel mills on one hand and mobile sources like cars, trucks and buses. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Using pollution measurements and wind patterns, the researchers concluded that much of the smog afflicting Beijing came not from sources in the city, but rather from coal-burning factories 200 miles southwest in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province and a major industrial hub. (com.pk)
  • The mayor of Beijing, Wang Anshun, championed restrictions on vehicles in the city, and state news media outlets lauded projects to replace coal-fired heating systems in urban areas with systems that use natural gas and generate far less particulate pollution. (com.pk)
  • The Coal Cares™ hoax was devised by a group called Coal is Killing Kids (CKK), a small environmental and public health group that aims to challenge Big Coal's expensive lobbying against sensible updates to the Clean Air Act. (forbes.com)
  • Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine was the site of the worst coal mine disaster in 40 years when 29 miners were killed by a massive coal dust explosion. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Dr. Renee Salas, an emergency room doctor and Harvard professor who wasn't part of the study, said 'the American Heart Association determined over a decade ago that exposure to (tiny pollution particles) like that generated from the burning of fossil fuels is causal for heart disease and death. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Not just this Environmental Research explained that tiny air pollution particles make their way up to the brainstems of young people where they accumulate. (blackbirdnews.com)
  • Besides studying the brain-related health risks of individual contaminants in air pollution, scientists have studied how levels of particles that are 10 micrometers or smaller (PM10) and particles that are 2.5 micrometers or smaller (PM2.5) are associated with brain-related conditions. (foodrevolution.org)
  • Besides inflammation, accumulation of magnetite particles and amyloid plaques (an Alzheimer's-associated protein) have been observed in the brains of humans and animals exposed to air pollution . (foodrevolution.org)
  • What do you think of when you hear the word "pollution" - a city smothered in smog, a beach strewn with trash, factories pumping out dark clouds? (grist.org)
  • The city has had the worst smog, otherwise known as ground-level ozone, in the U.S. for 19 of the past 20 years. (cnn.com)
  • Even though better pollution norms are coming in, still the pollution levels are continuously increasing," said Shambhavi Shukla, a research associate with the Delhi-based Center for Science and Environment, which was not involved in the Lancet study. (apnews.com)
  • A Lancet study says Chinese air pollution kills a million people per year. (newsbusters.org)
  • News outlets are referring to a report released yesterday by The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sites where historically polluting industries released persistent pollutants may have legacy pollution long after the source of the pollution is stopped. (wikipedia.org)
  • But most countries in Africa lack the infrastructure needed to map in detail the levels of pollutants people are exposed to and how those pollutants affect public health, says Susanne Bauer, an atmospheric modeler at the NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies who led the study. (astroglossary.ca)
  • Controls of the super pollutants, methane black carbon and HFCs, as well as particulate pollution that directly damage respiratory health must be a component of the transition as well. (ucsd.edu)
  • The financial cost of deaths from these three pollutants released by Covanta's incinerator in Chester would be $94 million to $200 million dollars a year. (ejnet.org)
  • The image draws attention to a painful truth: More than 90% of the world's people are breathing polluted air , which can be deadly. (businessinsider.com)
  • Glaciers, crucial sources of water for a billion of the world's people, will disappear. (patheos.com)
  • A handful of other cities across the nation have taken similar steps to ban fossil fuels in new buildings within the next several years. (wgbh.org)
  • New data last week from University of Chicago researchers showed that across South Asia, air pollution-mostly from burning fossil fuels-is robbing people of five years of life on average. (commondreams.org)
  • Despite what has been known for many years about the public health risks posed by chemicals such as mercury, lead and asbestos, problems still occur. (who.int)
  • Across the region, "particulate pollution levels are currently more than 50% higher than at the start of the century and now overshadow" other health risks. (commondreams.org)
  • Pulitzer Center grantees circumnavigated the globe to study pollution-its risks, the health implications, potential remedies, and means of prevention. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Rigorous review of countries are adversely affected by the risks of environmen- evidence and expert consensus were employed systemati- tal pollution and ecological deterioration. (who.int)
  • One of the primary risks to healthcare workers and the public is exposure to persons with unsuspected or undiagnosed infectious TB. (cdc.gov)
  • Environments are highly influential on our behaviour and our exposure to health risks (for example air pollution, violence), our access to services (for example, health and social care) and the opportunities that ageing brings. (who.int)
  • The Berkeley Earth paper's findings present data saying that air pollution contributes to 17 percent of all deaths in the nation each year. (com.pk)
  • The practice involves boiling crude oil to extract fuel which contributes to the pollution in the region. (cnn.com)
  • The use of tobacco in indoor public places and workplaces, including at homes, contributes to emission of toxicants in the air, thereby contributing to air pollution. (who.int)
  • A 2022 literature review found that levels of anthropogenic chemical pollution have exceeded planetary boundaries and now threaten entire ecosystems around the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • We will improve the air quality not only for the Games, but also for the demand of our people," said Shen Xue, an Olympic gold medalist and ambassador for the 2022 bid, according to a report last month by Xinhua, the state news agency. (com.pk)
  • 2022 marks 50 years since the first international meeting on the environment in 1972-the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. (metro.co.uk)
  • A new study blames pollution of all types for 9 million deaths a year globally, with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks and industry rising 55% since 2000. (scrippsnews.com)
  • 9 million deaths is a lot of deaths,' said Philip Landrigan, director of the Global Public Health Program and Global Pollution Observatory at Boston College. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Five outside experts in public health and air pollution, including Goldman, told The Associated Press the study follows mainstream scientific thought. (scrippsnews.com)
  • While people focus on decreasing their blood pressure and cholesterol, few recognize that the removal of air pollution is an important prescription to improve their heart health,' Salas said. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Exposure to air pollution leads to 25,000 deaths in England every year, according to shocking new research from a health watchdog. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Measures that significantly reduce particulate air pollution or cut exposure would be regarded as important public health initiatives. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • However, this new report further highlights just how serious exposure to pollution can be to people's health in the long-term - this is something we urgently need to tackle. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Pollution has widespread consequences on human and environmental health, having systematic impact on social and economic systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • The United States Environmental Protection Administration defines pollution as "Any substances in water, soil, or air that degrade the natural quality of the environment, offend the senses of sight, taste, or smell, or cause a health hazard. (wikipedia.org)
  • The group says its mortality estimates are based on a World Health Organization framework for projecting death rates from five diseases known to be associated with exposure to various levels of fine-particulate pollution. (com.pk)
  • In March, after a lengthy documentary video about the health effects of air pollution circulated widely online, the party's central propaganda department ordered Chinese websites to delete it. (com.pk)
  • Pan Xiaochuan, a professor at the School of Public Health, Beijing University, is less optimistic: "From the data I have, the air pollution in Beijing has worsened in recent years. (asianews.it)
  • While people are gradually becoming more aware of the devastating health impact of indoor pollution from cooking, there is still much more to be done. (rawa.org)
  • The extent of air pollution across the continent, and how it affects people's health, has been difficult to quantify. (astroglossary.ca)
  • The negative health effects of air pollution are well known. (astroglossary.ca)
  • Rebecca Garland, who works on air quality and climate modeling at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria, says the NASA group did a good job using satellite data to estimate how much pollution was close enough to the ground to cause health effects-something that's tricky but necessary to do in the absence of ground-level measurements. (astroglossary.ca)
  • Pollution data are "nonexistent because of the very limited number of researchers on the continent working on air pollution health effects, coupled with the lack of funding," Amegah says. (astroglossary.ca)
  • To reach its figures on the overall global pollution burden, the study's authors used methods outlined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for assessing field data from soil tests, as well as with air and water pollution data from the Global Burden of Disease, an ongoing study run by institutions including the World Health Organization and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. (climatesamurai.com)
  • Local gyms and health clubs have been shut down across the country due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, but people have still been encouraged to exercise outside while social distancing. (wgbh.org)
  • Their 'life-cycle' analysis showed that each parking space in the United States comes at an annual cost of $6-$23 in health and environmental damages to society caused by air pollution alone. (streetsblog.org)
  • Growing evidence suggests that air pollution may more deeply affect long-term human health, behavior, and functioning than originally thought. (foodrevolution.org)
  • She's a clean air advocate who hopes the pandemic has primed people to mobilize against other health threats, too, especially pollution. (wunc.org)
  • Two University of California San Diego scientists, Veerabhadran Ramanathan of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Wael Al-Delaimy of the School of Medicine are co-editors of Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility with Msgr. Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences. (ucsd.edu)
  • Though production of the book was well under way before this year, Ramanathan said that the COVID-19 pandemic is illustrative of the scenarios presented in Health of People . (ucsd.edu)
  • Indigenous Peoples are most at risk, as their homes, livelihoods and health are threatened by the fires. (greenpeace.org)
  • In addition to generating a product that kills about 8 million people a year, tobacco growing harms the environment and the health of workers. (who.int)
  • Tobacco kills over 8 million people every year and destroys our environment, further harming human health, through the cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumer waste. (who.int)
  • Despite the fact that outdoor air quality has improved, we've reduced two common asthma triggers-secondhand smoke and smoking in general-asthma is increasing," said Paul Garbe, D.V.M., M.P.H, chief of CDC's Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch. (cdc.gov)
  • Asthma is a serious, lifelong disease that unfortunately kills thousands of people each year and adds billions to our nation's health care costs," said CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. "We have to do a better job educating people about managing their symptoms and how to correctly use medicines to control asthma so they can live longer more productive lives while saving health care costs. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1997, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) awarded a contract to the University of Colorado to evaluate the ability of a well-designed and thoroughly characterized upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) system to kill or inactivate airborne mycobacteria. (cdc.gov)
  • While neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders have their own unique features, many share a lot of the same underlying brain tissue changes - and air pollution may exacerbate them. (foodrevolution.org)
  • Thirty years ago Ronald Reagan shocked the professional appeasers, the Cold War wimps, and the detente-forever crowd when he called the Soviet Union exactly what it was and always had been - 'The Evil Empire. (newsmax.com)
  • My father knew it was not the captive peoples of the Soviet Union who were evil. (newsmax.com)
  • Sorondo, the chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, noted that the publication of the book coincides with a call by Pope Francis for day of prayer among people of all faiths for an end to the coronavirus pandemic. (ucsd.edu)
  • Despite temporary improvements in air quality last year as a result of so-called lock-downs by September air pollution had returned to pre-pandemic levels. (bvsalud.org)
  • The major forms of pollution are listed below along with the particular contaminants relevant to each of them: Air pollution: the release of chemicals and particulates into the atmosphere. (wikipedia.org)
  • When you burn fossil fuel you produce particulates which lodge in lungs and kill you, and when you burn fossil fuel you produce carbon, which lodges in the atmosphere, driving heatwaves and floods that kill you. (commondreams.org)
  • As you might expect, this kind of "solar energy" naturally comes with a host of dangers that coal's million-year buffering is designed to avoid. (forbes.com)
  • NEW DELHI (AP) - Environmental pollution - from filthy air to contaminated water - is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. (apnews.com)
  • Pollution kills about the same number of people a year around the world as cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke combined, the study said. (scrippsnews.com)
  • To then put these together with actual deaths, researchers look at the number of deaths by cause, exposure to pollution weighted for various factors, and then complicated exposure response calculations derived by large epidemiological studies based on thousands of people over decades of study, he said. (scrippsnews.com)
  • A study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, has estimated that around 470,000 people die each year because of human-caused increase in ozone, Xinhua reported. (daijiworld.com)
  • People who consumed more food containing whole grains had a slower rate of memory decline, equivalent to being 8.5 years younger, compared to those who ate less whole grains, according to the study. (medicaldaily.com)
  • Perhaps what is most compelling about the study is the impact that farming has on the overall air pollution on the planet. (immortal.org)
  • The organisation is well known for a study that reviewed the concerns of people who reject established climate science and found that the rise in global average temperatures has been caused "almost entirely" by human activity. (com.pk)
  • Berhane says Bauer's study is welcome in a region where there is far too little pollution data. (astroglossary.ca)
  • However, she says the modeling study is too coarse to guide regional policy decisions-for that, governments need local pollution data. (astroglossary.ca)
  • Long-term exposure to air pollution, especially ground-level ozone , is like smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day for many years, a new study says, and like smoking, it can can lead to emphysema. (cnn.com)
  • Pollution mitigation is an important part of all of the Sustainable Development Goals. (wikipedia.org)
  • The United Nations estimates that there are currently around 25 million climate refugees worldwide, a number that is expected to double within five years. (thedp.com)
  • One analysis estimates the facility s air pollution kills an estimated 5.5 people per year. (democraticunderground.com)
  • In Africa, 500,000 children under the age of five die from pneumonia attributable to indoor air pollution, according to the WHO. (rawa.org)
  • Areas like Sub-Saharan Africa have yet to even set up air pollution monitoring systems. (apnews.com)
  • By any measurable moral calculation, focusing the planet's efforts and finances on rapidly converting Asia (and Africa and South America) to renewable energy would provide the largest imaginable payoff, both in the short-term and the long, and for both the people who live there, and for the smallish percentage of humans who don't. (commondreams.org)
  • Today, the Africa Regional Certification Commission certified the WHO African Region as wild polio-free after four years without a case. (who.int)
  • The report marks the first attempt to pull together data on disease and death caused by all forms of pollution combined. (apnews.com)
  • Many sources of pollution were unregulated parts of industrialization during the 19th and 20th centuries until the emergence of environmental regulation and pollution policy in the later half of the 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Last week swathes of England and Wales suffered extremely high pollution levels. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) predicted that large areas of the country would suffer the highest levels of pollution. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Although US air pollution levels have come down in the past few decades , it's been well-established how environmental contaminants and air pollution are linked to chronic medical conditions like asthma , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) , and heart disease . (foodrevolution.org)
  • Ice caps in both the North and South Poles are melting faster than ever before, and winter sea ice levels in the Arctic hit record lows almost every year. (thedp.com)
  • The October wildfires in Northern California killed at least 44 people and caused unprecedented levels of air pollution. (medscape.com)
  • These included (1) the irradiance level in the upper room that provides a UVGI dose over time that kills or inactivates an airborne surrogate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, (2) how to best measure UVGI fluence levels, (3) the effect of air mixing on UVGI performance, (4) the relationship between mechanical ventilation and UVGI systems, (5) the effects of humidity and photoreactivation (PR), and (6) the optimum placement of UVGI fixtures. (cdc.gov)
  • Or could it be due to pollution damage in the lungs that people accumulate over years? (boston.com)
  • The Berkeley Earth paper showed, however, that to clear the skies over Beijing, mitigation measures will be needed across a broad stretch of the country southwest of the capital, affecting tens of millions of people. (com.pk)
  • And air pollution kills millions of people every year . (foodrevolution.org)
  • The Independent: "Pollution is killing millions of people a year and the world is reaching 'crisis point', experts warn. (scienceblogs.com)
  • People who live to 100 years have lower measures of creatinine, glucose and uric acid in their blood compared to those with a comparatively shorter lifespan, researchers say. (medicaldaily.com)
  • The researchers used similar statistical methods to assess Chinese air pollution. (com.pk)
  • Researchers have estimated that every year, there are 1.3 to 4.0 million cases, and 21 000 to 143 000 deaths worldwide due to cholera. (who.int)
  • Plastic pollution: involves the accumulation of plastic products and microplastics in the environment that adversely affects wildlife, wildlife habitat, or humans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Lead affects the brain in ways that increase violent behavior, which means that some of the violence that plagues Chester could be aggravated by this toxic pollution. (ejnet.org)
  • Cholera affects both children and adults and can kill within hours if untreated. (who.int)
  • Noise pollution: which encompasses roadway noise, aircraft noise, industrial noise as well as high-intensity sonar. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hassol would point out that we use pollution to describe all kinds of disturbances, such as glowing cities (light pollution) and roaring airplanes (noise pollution). (grist.org)
  • Light pollution: includes light trespass, over-illumination and astronomical interference. (wikipedia.org)
  • We're making gains in the easy stuff and we're seeing the more difficult stuff, which is the ambient (outdoor industrial) air pollution and the chemical pollution, still going up. (scrippsnews.com)
  • Menawhile, Friends of the Earth air pollution campaigner Jenny Bates said pollution was a 'national disgrace' that should be a top priority for politicians. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • I wish someone like Arnab Goswami speaks about air pollution and educate the nation because our politicians and administration is too busy doing other things. (blackbirdnews.com)
  • Politicians may not feel the need to act because this happens every year. (wunc.org)
  • Immortal News has been covering the impact of air pollution linking brain related disease , as well as the impact the recent wildfires have on heart disease. (immortal.org)
  • Climate pollution" is becoming common on the websites of green groups and atop news stories . (grist.org)
  • This is a challenging year for news organizations and nonprofits across the board, so please don't close this window before making your gift. (democracynow.org)
  • Multiple news outlets are reporting the gunman used the online platform Discord to share details about his plot with a small group of people about 30 minutes before the massacre. (democracynow.org)
  • In terms of what we call disability adjusted life years, which combines the burden due to death and illness in a single index, indoor smoke from solid fuels in low-income countries ranks fifth, behind childhood underweight, unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene, unsafe sex and insufficient breastfeeding. (rawa.org)
  • Improving indoor air quality for people with asthma through measures such as smoke-free air laws and policies, healthy schools and workplaces. (cdc.gov)
  • Year-Round Allergies Year-round (perennial) allergies result from indoor exposure to airborne substances (such as house dust) that are present throughout the year. (msdmanuals.com)
  • People diagnosed with asthma in the United States grew by 4.3 million between 2001 and 2009, according to a new Vital Signs report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Asthma is a lifelong disease that causes wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing, though people with asthma can control symptoms and prevent asthma attacks by avoiding things that can set off an asthma attacks, and correctly using prescribed medicine, like inhaled corticosteroids. (cdc.gov)
  • Annual asthma costs in the United States were $3,300 per person with asthma from 2002 to 2007 in medical expenses. (cdc.gov)
  • About 2 in 5 uninsured and 1 in 9 insured people with asthma could not afford their prescription medication. (cdc.gov)
  • People with longstanding asthma or COPD-these are the patients who come to the emergency department and whom we see acutely. (medscape.com)
  • No children died during the SARS outbreak in 2002 , which killed 774 people. (boston.com)
  • Carbon pollution" has been adopted by the Biden administration, appearing on the Environmental Protection Agency 's site, in press releases about cleaning up manufacturing, and in speeches by the president . (grist.org)
  • President Biden visited Buffalo, New York, Tuesday, three days after an 18-year-old white supremacist shot dead 10 people at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood. (democracynow.org)
  • Scientists have now come up with a new technology that involves cancer diagnosis through a simple urine test using a strip of paper, making diagnosis simple and affordable for people. (medicaldaily.com)