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Tracking Air Pollution in China: Near Real-Time PM2.5 Retrievals from Multisource Data Fusion.
Environmental Science and Technology, 2021 Air pollution has altered the Earth's radiation balance, disturbed the ecosystem, and increased human morbidity and mortality. Accordingly, a full-coverage high-resolution air pollutant data set with timely updates and historical long-term records is ...
G. Geng +12 more
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Historical Redlining Is Associated with Present-Day Air Pollution Disparities in U.S. Cities
Environmental Science and Technology Letters, 2022 Communities of color in the United States are systematically exposed to higher levels of air pollution. We explore here how redlining, a discriminatory mortgage appraisal practice from the 1930s by the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC ...
H. Lane +3 more
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Journal of Internal Medicine, 2021 The available evidence on the effects of ambient air pollution on cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) has increased substantially. In this umbrella review, we summarized the current epidemiological evidence from systematic reviews and meta‐analyses linking ...
Suganthi Jaganathan +5 more
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Urban Air Pollution, Urban Heat Island and Human Health: A Review of the Literature
Sustainability, 2022 Many cities of the world suffer from air pollution because of poor planning and design and heavy traffic in rapidly expanding urban environments. These conditions are exacerbated due to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect.
A. Piracha, Muhammad Tariq A. Chaudhary
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Subalpine grassland carbon balance during 7 years of increased atmospheric N deposition [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2016 Air pollution agents interact when affecting biological sinks for atmospheric CO2, e.g., the soil organic carbon (SOC) content of grassland ecosystems.
M. Volk, J. Enderle, S. Bassin
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Atmosphere, 2022 Air pollutants from ship exhaust have a negative impact on air quality in coastal areas, which can be greatly exacerbated by sea breeze circulation. However, our understanding of this issue is still limited, especially in coastal areas with a complex ...
Yizhe Ma +6 more
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The Adverse Effects of Air Pollution on the Eye: A Review
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Air pollution is inevitably the result of human civilization, industrialization, and globalization. It is composed of a mixture of gases and particles at harmful levels. Particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and carbon dioxides (CO2) are mainly
C. Lin +6 more
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Eddy covariance methane flux measurements over a grazed pasture: effect of cows as moving point sources [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2015 Methane (CH4) from ruminants contributes one-third of global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Eddy covariance (EC) technique has been extensively used at various flux sites to investigate carbon dioxide exchange of ecosystems. Since the development
R. Felber +3 more
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British medical journal, 2021 Objective To investigate the associations between air pollution and mortality, focusing on associations below current European Union, United States, and World Health Organization standards and guidelines. Design Pooled analysis of eight cohorts.
M. Strak +51 more
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European Respiratory Review, 2021 Studies have pointed out that air pollution may be a contributing factor to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, the specific links between air pollution and severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 infection remain unclear ...
T. Bourdrel +4 more
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