Category:Air Pollution

Via The Guardian

● More than 95% of world's population breathe dangerous air, major study finds

● The war against air pollution has begun – and it will be fought in cities

● Air Pollution, Unborn, Babies and Health Catastrophe

The State of Global Air

https://www.stateofglobalair.org/

https://www.stateofglobalair.org/air

https://www.stateofglobalair.org/health

Country-by-Country (interactive metrics) -- https://www.stateofglobalair.org/data/#/air/plot

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation -- http://www.healthdata.org/gbd

State of Global Air 2018: Over 7 Billion People Face Unsafe Air

Health Effects Institute -- https://www.healtheffects.org/

April 2018 / Air Pollution Global Health

Health Effects Institute has issued State of Global Air 2018 — the first update of the annual report and interactive website launched in 2017 with the aim of providing “one-stop shopping” for the latest trends in air quality and its impact on human health around the world.

For the first time, the 2018 report and website include worldwide estimates of exposure and health burdens from burning of solid fuels inside people’s homes. In 2016, a total of 2.5 billion people — one in three global citizens — were exposed to household air pollution from the use of solid fuels (for example, wood, charcoal, coal dung, or other biomass) for cooking and heating. Most live in low- and middle-income countries in Asia and Africa, and face a double burden: exposure to both indoor and outdoor air pollution...

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A GreenPolicy360 Proposal: City Air Quality Study via Google Map App

Crowdsourced Project

Google Earth Outreach and the Environmental Defense Fund Launch a Science and Technology Initiative to Measure City Air

GreenPolicy360: Let's take this pilot project in Oakland and network with citizen science as a worldwide green best practice

Mapping Our Air -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Mapping_Our_Air.png

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● London reaches legal air pollution limit just one month into 2018

● Is Smog Getting Worse?

● Air Pollution *Will* Make You Sick

● A Year of Smog in 5 charts

● Air pollution More harmful to Children in Cars

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China, Energy & Air Pollution

Air Pollution Across the World

Beijing's Air Pollution

http://photo.sf.co.ua/g/115/10.jpg

March 2017

China Premier Pledges: ‘We Will Make Our Skies Blue Again’

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has pledged to make the country's skies blue again and "work faster" to address pollution caused by coal burning.

His words to delegates at the opening of the National People's Congress highlight how reducing smog has become a priority for the leadership because of public discontent.

In a report to China's ceremonial legislature, Li said that "people are desperately hoping for" faster progress in improving air quality.

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Global Updates

● https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/17/air-pollution-kills-more-people-in-the-uk-than-in-sweden-us-and-mexico

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/255336/1/9789241565486-eng.pdf

People in the UK are 64 times as likely to die of air pollution as those in Sweden and twice as likely as those in the US, figures from the World Health Organisation reveal.

"It is deeply tragic that around 3 million lives are cut short worldwide because the air we breathe is dirty and polluted. In the UK, air pollution is a public health crisis hitting our most vulnerable the hardest – our children, people with a lung condition and the elderly."

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One Day's Toxic Air News Pulled from the Headlines

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21716672-pollution-shortens-londoners-lives-between-nine-and-16-months-plan-clean-up-britains

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-air-pollution-levels-soar-as-mayor-issues-exercise-warning-a3464436.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/european-smog-27-times-more-toxic-chinese-air-pollution-china-quality-a7572051.html

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170210084550.htm

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http://e360.yale.edu/features/origins-of-north-indias-air-pollution

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http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-air-pollution-alzheimers-20170131-story.html

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http://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20170210/air-pollution-may-raise-risk-of-type-2-diabetes#1

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https://qz.com/905656/air-pollution-is-increasing-in-africa-along-with-rapid-urbanization/

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170202122751.htm

Decades ago Mexico City's air pollution was so poor, birds would fall out of the sky -- dead. Locals said living there was like smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, according to one report. In response, Mexico City took several steps to try to improve air quality including restricting driving one or two days during the weekdays. The program has had negligible results.

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The Statistics, the Health Impacts, the Damages of Lives -- and What Are the Solutions?

http://www.who.int/phe/health_topics/outdoorair/databases/cities/en/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_polluted_cities_by_particulate_matter_concentration

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A Lung Specialist Explains

https://www.britannica.com/science/air-pollution

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Making Progress: Models of Environmental Initiatives that Have Made a Difference

Los Angeles, the 'worst in the world' in air quality in the 1950s. Now LA and California are 'out in front' of clean air and environmental initiatives, providing models of what can be done nationally and internationally.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/dec/02/where-world-most-polluted-city-air-pollution

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/10-of-worlds-20-most-polluted-cities-in-India-List-inside/articleshow/52249911.cms

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/08/world/asia/india-pollution-who/index.html

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/06/which-is-the-worlds-most-polluted-city/

http://www.lung.org/images/ala-logo-head.png

http://www.stateoftheair.org/2015/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities.html

http://www.stateoftheair.org/2014/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32352722 - Breathing Poison

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Smog, or ground-level ozone, causes a host of respiratory consequences, ranging from coughing, wheezing and throat irritation, to asthma, increased risk of infection, and permanent damage to lung tissue.

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Via the Guardian, 2016 / “We have a public health emergency in many countries from pollution. It’s dramatic, one of the biggest problems we are facing globally, with horrible future costs to society,” said Maria Neira, head of public health at the World Health Organization. “Air pollution leads to chronic diseases which require hospital space. Before, we knew that pollution was responsible for diseases like pneumonia and asthma. Now we know that it leads to bloodstream, heart and cardiovascular diseases, too – even dementia. We are storing up problems. These are chronic diseases that require hospital beds. The cost will be enormous.”

The toxic haze blanketing cities could be clearly seen last week from the international space station.

Poor air quality is killing millions and threatening to overwhelm health services across the globe.

With nearly 1.4 million deaths a year, China has the most air pollution fatalities, followed by India with 645,000 and Pakistan with 110,000.

The latest scientific research, published in the journal Nature, suggests that air pollution now kills more people a year than malaria and HIV combined, and in many countries accounts for roughly 10 times more deaths than road accidents.

According to the WHO, air quality is deteriorating around the world to the point where only one in eight people live in cities that meet recommended air pollution levels.