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网页Shifting perspectives: from clean air to healthy air. Healthy air is not just about the absence of harmful substances but also about the presence of beneficial ones. Understanding and communicating the concept of healthy air requires us to embrace the diversity of bioaerosols and their varying impacts on health. View.
How air pollution impacts on the brain’s white matter
网页7 小时之前 · This association continued through adolescence, suggesting that air pollution was having a long-term impact on brain development. Every increase in exposure level to air pollution corresponded to more than a 5-month delay in the development of fractional anisotropy. Michelle Kusters, ISGlobal researcher and first author of the study said: ‘We ...
Air Quality News in 2022: The year’s top stories
网页2022年12月19日 · By Martin Guttridge-Hewitt. Moving into the final few months of 2022, Hugh Helferty, a leading energy scientist, sat down with Air Quality News to discuss the need for oil and gas companies to take responsibility for …
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网页An innovative heat battery technology has recently completed an 18 month trial, in which it provided 30 homes across the South East and East of England with low-carbon electrified heating. View. Cars, Freight & Transport Headlines.
Evidence review by Imperial College London maps impact of air …
网页2023年4月17日 · An ‘evidence highlight note’ released by a team of researchers from London Imperial College’s Environment Research Group has examined a huge range of research published since the 2016 Royal College of Physicians report ‘Every breath we take: the lifelong impact of air pollution’. Accepting that the RCP report had established…
Research identifies best and worst performing cities in reducing air ...
网页2023年3月2日 · A new study has compared PM2.5 levels from 2019 to 2022 levels in 480 cities across the world to identify which ones are making the best progress in reducing air pollution and which are failing miserably. World Health Organization research last year revealed that 17% of cities in high-income countries…
Scientists explore how inequalities in air pollution exposure fluctuate
网页2022年8月26日 · Photo by Oxxaca. Researchers have begun to document how inequalities in exposure to air pollution fluctuate from day to day across 11 major US cities, finding that climate change could exacerbate these differences. Studies have shown that air pollution disproportionately affects communities were economically disadvantaged people …
Opinion: The safe air decade – AirQualityNews
网页2023年1月23日 · Professor Guy Marks, President of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, believes that lessons learnt during the Covid-19 pandemic should not be forgotten if we are to make our atmosphere safer for everyone to breathe. Although air is invisible, ever-present and vital to our existence, safe air is…
Monitoring air quality at Expo 2020 Dubai – a case study
网页2024年3月11日 · This was an increase of 8% from 2019 and 18% from 2017. For PM10 83.9% in 2020, an improvement of 2.9% from 2019 and 12.9% from 2018. For PM2.5, 93.2% green days in 2020, a 5.2% improvement on 2019 and a 13.2% improvement on 2018 . While the specific impact of Expo 2020 on air quality in Dubai is yet to be examined, academic studies from Expo ...
The newly published Air Quality Neutral Guidance – what does it …
网页2023年3月30日 · For building emissions, the new guidance sets a PM2.5 benchmark of zero. This change means that developments with a biomass boiler or on-site plant fuelled by diesel are unlikely to be air quality neutral as there’s a high chance these appliances will emit particles. The caveat to this is a backup plant for emergency and lifesaving power are ...