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Environmental and Health Impacts of Air Pollution: A Review
Effect of Air Pollution on Health. The most common air pollutants are ground-level ozone and Particulates Matter (PM). Air pollution is distinguished into two main types: ... At this point, international cooperation in terms of research, development, administration policy, monitoring, and politics is vital for effective pollution control ...
Half the world's population are exposed to increasing air pollution
Air pollution is high on the global agenda and is widely recognised as a threat to both public health and economic progress. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4.2 million deaths ...
Health and Clinical Impacts of Air Pollution and Linkages with Climate
The roles of air pollution and climate change in individual-level patient care are increasingly recognized. While air pollution has contributed to morbidity and mortality before these cases, the past 2 years brought the first cases in which individual deaths were officially linked with air pollution: in the death of a 9-year-old girl who suffered from asthma in the United Kingdom in whom ...
Clean air for a sustainable world
Clean air for a sustainable world. Nature Communications 12, Article number: 5824 ( 2021 ) Cite this article. Air pollution is a cause of disease for millions around the world and now more than ...
Global air pollution exposure and poverty
When we use less extreme (i.e., higher) poverty thresholds, the number of air pollution and poverty-exposed people increases significantly. We estimate that around 1.8 billion people living on ...
Environmental and Health Impacts of Air Pollution: A Review
Moreover, air pollution seems to have various malign health effects in early human life, such as respiratory, cardiovascular, mental, and perinatal disorders ( 3 ), leading to infant mortality or chronic disease in adult age ( 6 ). National reports have mentioned the increased risk of morbidity and mortality ( 1 ).
Assessing the health burden from air pollution
Two large bodies of evidence in air pollution research support a rethinking of current practices in evaluating the health effects of air pollution for prevention and policy: In September 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) substantially reinforced its Air Quality Guidelines for clean air by reducing the recommended annual levels of PM 2.5 from 10 μg/m 3 to 5 μg/m 3 and those of NO 2 ...
Gaps and future directions in research on health effects of air pollution
Despite progress in many countries, air pollution, and especially fine particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) remains a global health threat: over 6 million premature cardiovascular and respiratory deaths/yr. have been attributed to household and outdoor air pollution. In this viewpoint, we identify present gaps in air pollution monitoring and regulation, and how they could be strengthened ...
The air that we breathe
This month The Lancet Planetary Health publishes a collection of four Articles (three from the issue and one published online first) exploring the health impacts of ambient air pollution. In the first of these papers, Veronica Southerland and co-authors examine PM 2·5 concentrations and associated mortality trends in over 13 000 cities ...
Exposure to outdoor air pollution and its human health outcomes: A
Despite considerable air pollution prevention and control measures that have been put into practice in recent years, outdoor air pollution remains one of the most important risk factors for health outcomes. To identify the potential research gaps, we conducted a scoping review focused on health outcomes affected by outdoor air pollution across the broad research area. Of the 5759 potentially ...
New Insights for Tracking Global and Local Trends in Exposure to Air
Over six million people die prematurely each year from exposure to air pollution. Current air quality metrics insufficiently monitor exposure to air pollutants. This gap hinders the ability of decisionmakers to address the public health impacts of air pollution. To spur new emissions control policies and ensure implemented solutions realize meaningful gains in environmental health, we develop ...
Pollution and health: a progress update
The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuriaes, and Risk Factors Study 2019. We find that pollution remains responsible for approximately ...
Advances in air quality research
We wish to dedicate this article to the following eminent scientists who made immense contributions to the science of air quality and its impacts: Paul J. Crutzen (1933-2021), atmospheric chemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995; Mario Molina (1943-2020), atmospheric chemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995; Samohineeveesu Trivikrama Rao (1944-2021), air pollution ...
Air pollution: a global problem needs local fixes
Desert dust boosts air pollution in northern Africa, the Middle East and central Asia. It is not clear which source is the most dangerous. Levels of PM 2.5 alone give only a rough guide to the ...
Study finds natural sources of air pollution exceed air quality
MIT researchers demonstrate that over 50 percent of the world's population would still be exposed to PM2.5 concentrations that exceed new air quality guidelines due to the large natural sources of particulate matter — dust, sea salt, and organics from vegetation — that still exist in the atmosphere when anthropogenic emissions are removed from the air.
Air pollution: Impact and prevention
INTRODUCTION. Environmental pollution has been a matter of concern for many years. The Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, sponsored the first broad scientific study of smoke abatement, which resulted in legislation designed to decrease the effects of smoke. 1 It is now well known that environmental contamination impacts on health; the World Health Organization estimates that every year ...
Indoor Air Pollution, Related Human Diseases, and Recent Trends in the
2. Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) According to the EPA's definition, IAQ is the air quality within and around buildings and structures, especially as it relates to the health and comfort of building occupants [].IAP, meanwhile, refers to the existence of pollutants, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate matter (PM), inorganic compounds, physical ...
Air pollution and climate change
Air pollution and climate change are both threats to population health worldwide. In the UK, we have seen how climate change is already affecting all the systems on which our health depends. The consequences range from inconvenient, such as fresh produce shortages in supermarkets, to profoundly impactful, such as excess deaths related to the unprecedented heatwaves in 2022. Even if the most ...
Burden of cardiovascular disease attributed to air pollution: a
Currently, research revealed that more than 80% of CVD cases can be prevented by addressing risk factors such as smoking, arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, overweight, lack of physical activity, unhealthy diet, and exposure to air pollution [6, 7].Despite the significant impact of environmental factors, especially air pollution, on health outcomes, they are often ...
Metabolomics Application in Understanding the Link Between Air
Air pollution and the various chemicals that are a part of this complex mixture have been associated with several adverse infant health outcomes. One major area of research is describing the underlying biological mechanism between air pollution and adverse infant health outcomes. Metabolomics, a new omics field, studies small molecules present in a biological matrix and may provide insight ...
Large-scale genome-wide association studies reveal the genetic causal
Epidemiological evidence links a close correlation between long-term exposure to air pollutants and autoimmune diseases, while the causality remained unknown. Two-sample Mendelian randomization (TSMR) was used to investigate the role of PM10, PM2.5, NO2, and NOX (N = 423,796-456,380) in 15 autoimmune diseases (N = 14,890-314,995) using data from large European GWASs including UKB, FINNGEN ...
Air pollution exposure disparities across US population and income
Abstract. Air pollution contributes to the global burden of disease, with ambient exposure to fine particulate matter of diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM 2.5) being identified as the fifth ...
Quantifying U.S. health impacts from gas stoves
A new study of air pollution in U.S. homes reveals how much gas and propane stoves increase people's exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant linked to childhood asthma. Even in bedrooms far from ...
130 million Americans routinely breathe unhealthy air, report finds
Wildfire smoke from Canada caused dangerously unhealthy air quality in New York City and across much of the U.S. in 2023. While air quality has improved greatly in the U.S. in recent decades ...
Air pollution and health
The health effects of air pollution have been subject to intense study in recent years. Exposure to pollutants such as airborne participate matter and ozone has been associated with increases in mortality and hospital admissions due to respiratory and cardiovascular disease. These effects have been found in short-term studies, which relate day-to-day variations in air pollution and health, and ...
Sustainability
Escalating global climate change and the intensification of urban heatwaves have led to an increase in summer air conditioning cooling energy consumption. This phenomenon is particularly critical in tropical regions, as it may trigger an energy crisis. The rational setting of indoor thermal design parameters can help conserve energy to the maximum extent while ensuring thermal comfort for ...
Lung adenocarcinoma promotion by air pollutants
In this study, we explored the paradigm of tumour promotion driven by the air pollutant PM in the development of lung cancer. We build on previous studies proposing that engine exhaust 39 and air ...
New evidence that air pollution contributes substantially to lung
We've demonstrated that air pollution wakes these cells up in the lungs, encouraging them to grow and potentially form tumours.". The discovery is of global impact because 99% of the world's population currently lives in areas that exceed WHO's annual limits for PM 2·5. In 2019 alone, approximately 300 000 lung cancer deaths worldwide were ...
Chemical pollutants can change your skin bacteria and increase your
Research has found that exposing mice to isocyanates and xylene can directly cause eczema, itch and inflammation by increasing the activity of receptors involved in itch, pain and temperature ...
In situ growth of an ultrathin Cu/g-C3N4 coating over SBA-15 for
Catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) is a very promising technology for the elimination of various refractory pollutants, but to activate dioxygen under mild conditions is a great challenge. In this research, we report a series of Cu x /CN y @SBA catalysts to activate dioxygen for CWAO of phenols and antibiotics under mild conditions.
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Effect of Air Pollution on Health. The most common air pollutants are ground-level ozone and Particulates Matter (PM). Air pollution is distinguished into two main types: ... At this point, international cooperation in terms of research, development, administration policy, monitoring, and politics is vital for effective pollution control ...
Air pollution is high on the global agenda and is widely recognised as a threat to both public health and economic progress. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4.2 million deaths ...
The roles of air pollution and climate change in individual-level patient care are increasingly recognized. While air pollution has contributed to morbidity and mortality before these cases, the past 2 years brought the first cases in which individual deaths were officially linked with air pollution: in the death of a 9-year-old girl who suffered from asthma in the United Kingdom in whom ...
Clean air for a sustainable world. Nature Communications 12, Article number: 5824 ( 2021 ) Cite this article. Air pollution is a cause of disease for millions around the world and now more than ...
When we use less extreme (i.e., higher) poverty thresholds, the number of air pollution and poverty-exposed people increases significantly. We estimate that around 1.8 billion people living on ...
Moreover, air pollution seems to have various malign health effects in early human life, such as respiratory, cardiovascular, mental, and perinatal disorders ( 3 ), leading to infant mortality or chronic disease in adult age ( 6 ). National reports have mentioned the increased risk of morbidity and mortality ( 1 ).
Two large bodies of evidence in air pollution research support a rethinking of current practices in evaluating the health effects of air pollution for prevention and policy: In September 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) substantially reinforced its Air Quality Guidelines for clean air by reducing the recommended annual levels of PM 2.5 from 10 μg/m 3 to 5 μg/m 3 and those of NO 2 ...
Despite progress in many countries, air pollution, and especially fine particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) remains a global health threat: over 6 million premature cardiovascular and respiratory deaths/yr. have been attributed to household and outdoor air pollution. In this viewpoint, we identify present gaps in air pollution monitoring and regulation, and how they could be strengthened ...
This month The Lancet Planetary Health publishes a collection of four Articles (three from the issue and one published online first) exploring the health impacts of ambient air pollution. In the first of these papers, Veronica Southerland and co-authors examine PM 2·5 concentrations and associated mortality trends in over 13 000 cities ...
Despite considerable air pollution prevention and control measures that have been put into practice in recent years, outdoor air pollution remains one of the most important risk factors for health outcomes. To identify the potential research gaps, we conducted a scoping review focused on health outcomes affected by outdoor air pollution across the broad research area. Of the 5759 potentially ...
Over six million people die prematurely each year from exposure to air pollution. Current air quality metrics insufficiently monitor exposure to air pollutants. This gap hinders the ability of decisionmakers to address the public health impacts of air pollution. To spur new emissions control policies and ensure implemented solutions realize meaningful gains in environmental health, we develop ...
The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuriaes, and Risk Factors Study 2019. We find that pollution remains responsible for approximately ...
We wish to dedicate this article to the following eminent scientists who made immense contributions to the science of air quality and its impacts: Paul J. Crutzen (1933-2021), atmospheric chemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995; Mario Molina (1943-2020), atmospheric chemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995; Samohineeveesu Trivikrama Rao (1944-2021), air pollution ...
Desert dust boosts air pollution in northern Africa, the Middle East and central Asia. It is not clear which source is the most dangerous. Levels of PM 2.5 alone give only a rough guide to the ...
MIT researchers demonstrate that over 50 percent of the world's population would still be exposed to PM2.5 concentrations that exceed new air quality guidelines due to the large natural sources of particulate matter — dust, sea salt, and organics from vegetation — that still exist in the atmosphere when anthropogenic emissions are removed from the air.
INTRODUCTION. Environmental pollution has been a matter of concern for many years. The Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, sponsored the first broad scientific study of smoke abatement, which resulted in legislation designed to decrease the effects of smoke. 1 It is now well known that environmental contamination impacts on health; the World Health Organization estimates that every year ...
2. Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) According to the EPA's definition, IAQ is the air quality within and around buildings and structures, especially as it relates to the health and comfort of building occupants [].IAP, meanwhile, refers to the existence of pollutants, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate matter (PM), inorganic compounds, physical ...
Air pollution and climate change are both threats to population health worldwide. In the UK, we have seen how climate change is already affecting all the systems on which our health depends. The consequences range from inconvenient, such as fresh produce shortages in supermarkets, to profoundly impactful, such as excess deaths related to the unprecedented heatwaves in 2022. Even if the most ...
Currently, research revealed that more than 80% of CVD cases can be prevented by addressing risk factors such as smoking, arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia, overweight, lack of physical activity, unhealthy diet, and exposure to air pollution [6, 7].Despite the significant impact of environmental factors, especially air pollution, on health outcomes, they are often ...
Air pollution and the various chemicals that are a part of this complex mixture have been associated with several adverse infant health outcomes. One major area of research is describing the underlying biological mechanism between air pollution and adverse infant health outcomes. Metabolomics, a new omics field, studies small molecules present in a biological matrix and may provide insight ...
Epidemiological evidence links a close correlation between long-term exposure to air pollutants and autoimmune diseases, while the causality remained unknown. Two-sample Mendelian randomization (TSMR) was used to investigate the role of PM10, PM2.5, NO2, and NOX (N = 423,796-456,380) in 15 autoimmune diseases (N = 14,890-314,995) using data from large European GWASs including UKB, FINNGEN ...
Abstract. Air pollution contributes to the global burden of disease, with ambient exposure to fine particulate matter of diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM 2.5) being identified as the fifth ...
A new study of air pollution in U.S. homes reveals how much gas and propane stoves increase people's exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant linked to childhood asthma. Even in bedrooms far from ...
Wildfire smoke from Canada caused dangerously unhealthy air quality in New York City and across much of the U.S. in 2023. While air quality has improved greatly in the U.S. in recent decades ...
The health effects of air pollution have been subject to intense study in recent years. Exposure to pollutants such as airborne participate matter and ozone has been associated with increases in mortality and hospital admissions due to respiratory and cardiovascular disease. These effects have been found in short-term studies, which relate day-to-day variations in air pollution and health, and ...
Escalating global climate change and the intensification of urban heatwaves have led to an increase in summer air conditioning cooling energy consumption. This phenomenon is particularly critical in tropical regions, as it may trigger an energy crisis. The rational setting of indoor thermal design parameters can help conserve energy to the maximum extent while ensuring thermal comfort for ...
In this study, we explored the paradigm of tumour promotion driven by the air pollutant PM in the development of lung cancer. We build on previous studies proposing that engine exhaust 39 and air ...
We've demonstrated that air pollution wakes these cells up in the lungs, encouraging them to grow and potentially form tumours.". The discovery is of global impact because 99% of the world's population currently lives in areas that exceed WHO's annual limits for PM 2·5. In 2019 alone, approximately 300 000 lung cancer deaths worldwide were ...
Research has found that exposing mice to isocyanates and xylene can directly cause eczema, itch and inflammation by increasing the activity of receptors involved in itch, pain and temperature ...
Catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) is a very promising technology for the elimination of various refractory pollutants, but to activate dioxygen under mild conditions is a great challenge. In this research, we report a series of Cu x /CN y @SBA catalysts to activate dioxygen for CWAO of phenols and antibiotics under mild conditions.