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Outdoor Air Quality and Air Pollution
This can include health issues like asthma, allergies, and certain types of cancer. In severe cases, exposure to air pollution can be deadly and shorten your life by months to years. According to ...
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Air, soil, water and dust: New study focuses on long-term health impacts of LA wildfire pollution
A team of researchers say they want to look at what exposure to toxins from thousands of burned structures does to people ...
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Air Pollution Can Make It Harder to Concentrate and Regulate Emotions
Short-term exposure to air pollution can impair cognitive functions like attention and emotion recognition. These issues ...
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The link between air pollution and lower respiratory infections in adults
Research reveals that even low levels of air pollution significantly increase the risk of respiratory infections in adults, ...
First Cleveland Air Code overhaul in decades would target pollution, health disparities
One of the key changes proposed is the establishment of “cumulative impact” scores. They would represent the totality of ...
Opinion
Air Pollution Is Just As Harmful as Alcohol. Where's the Surgeon General's Advisory? | Opinion
An advisory about fine particle air pollution from the highest-ranking physician in the United States would be a powerful tool in helping policymakers and communities better protect the health of ...
The Great Lakes have long faced pollution threats. The latest might be the most insidious.
When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...