Air Pollution

Where industrialized humans live, air pollution follows. That’s bad news for your lungs, which, in exchanging the gasses necessary to keep us alive, encounter particles that can make the body function less well. Though scientists know that chronic exposure to air pollution is toxic to several organ systems, the exact…

The global hair care market is estimated to value at USD 211.1 Billion by 2025 and is expected to continue growing at a higher rate during the forecast period. Rise in demand for hair color products, rise in aging population coupled with increasing air pollution are expected to contribute to…

Press releases Healthcare Persistence Market Research The global sales of bicycle and components surpassed 1.4 billion units in 2018, as revealed by a new market research study of Persistence Market Research (PMR). The global bicycle and components market is set to witness a strong 6% CAGR during the course of forecast period, 2019 – 2029. The demand for…

Air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels impacts human health but predicting pollution levels at a given time and place remains challenging, according to a team of scientists who are turning to deep learning to improve air quality estimates. Results of the team's study could be helpful for modelers…

EPA Administrator Michael Regan is straightening up the agency’s advisory boards.Photo: Joshua Roberts (Getty Images)When he wasn’t busy searching for Ritz Carlton lotion, former Environmental Protection Administrator Scott Pruitt also gutted the agency’s science advisory boards. But after forcing out impartial scientists and installing people who literally denied air pollution’s…

To grow up in Pittsburgh in the 1990s and 2000s—as I did—was to experience something paradoxical: slow-motion whiplash. In my early childhood, everyone seemed to agree that the city was dying around us—another victim of deindustrialization and globalization and a general brain drain, the factories gone forever and talented young…

Physical activity is important in preventing heart and blood vessel disease in young people so long as they don't undertake very strenuous activity on days when air pollution levels are high, according to a nationwide study of nearly 1.5 million people published today (Tuesday) in the European Heart Journal. Until…

Beverage firm to use solar power Listed beverage firm Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines, Inc. (PCPPI) has recently signed a deal for the installation of solar panels in its manufacturing plants in Batangas, Cebu, and Davao.  Such a move, according to PCPPI, is seen to reduce its dependency on grid electricity produced…

Capital hit by second sandstorm in less than two weeks as air quality index tops out at 500 Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Tianjin, Liaoning and Jilin also affected, Xinhua says Published: 1:33pm, 28 Mar, 2021 Updated: 6:38pm, 28 Mar, 2021 Read More

When power stations burn coal, a class of compounds called Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, or PAHs, form part of the resulting air pollution. Researchers have found that PAHs toxins degrade in sunlight into ‘children’ compounds and by-products. Some ‘children’ compounds can be more toxic than the ‘parent’ PAHs. Rivers and dams…