Category:Air Pollution
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Air Pollution Across the World
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The Statistics, the Health Impacts, the Damages of Lives -- and What Are the Solutions?
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- http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32352722 - Breathing Poison
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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.
- "We are only just learning about the scale of the toxicity of coal and diesel... This is a deep, deep problem."
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... Delhi, the world's most polluted air -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEbNsn91XV0
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Air pollution: a dark cloud of filth poisons the world’s cities
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See also: Citizen Science
What you can do about air pollution
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atmotube-the-portable-air-pollution-monitor-environment#/
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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future
California / AB 1493, Pavley. Vehicular emissions: greenhouse gases
...a model of green legislative best practices
...the "Pavley Law"', first legislation in the world to regulate greenhouse gas emissions of passenger vehicles... these visionary California environmental protection laws/regulations became model air quality / air pollution legislation and were ultimately adopted by the United States as the national standard. ARB 1 ARB 2
- Jerry Brown (2015): "California has this history that really derives from the experience of smog in the Los Angeles Basin, and the response to that over many administrations has led to where we are today. As a matter of fact the standards that were established under the so-called Pavley Law, 'the first legislation in the world to regulate greenhouse gas emissions of passenger vehicles, were ultimately adopted by the United States as the national standard'".
"Today Los Angeles has ten times as many cars as it did in the 50s, and the air is 95 percent cleaner. That’s a pretty dramatic move, one that countries like China and India are taking notice of."
"So we’ve had that history. As far as people’s attitudes I would say that there is a strong preference for favoring policies that nurture the environment as oppose to those that disrupt them."
"But if you dig deeper into the use of things or creature comforts, I don’t think we’ve attained the level of enlightenment that Pope Francis is calling for."
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- Wearable Devices / 'Digibody'
With Wearable Devices That Monitor Air Quality, Scientists Can Crowdsource Pollution Maps
Emerging technology means anyone with a smartphone can become a mobile environmental monitoring station
http://www.mytzoa.com/#homepage
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/741031201/airbeam-share-and-improve-your-air
http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/abs/10.1021/es505362x
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Air Visibility Monitoring (Android app) - http://robotics.usc.edu/~mobilesensing/Projects/AirVisibilityMonitoring
Biodiversity Group - http://www.biodiversitygroup.org/
Citizen Science Alliance - http://www.citizensciencealliance.org/
Climate Change and Citizen Science - http://www.slideshare.net/CitizenScienceCentral/citizen-science-and-climate-change-west
Cyber Citizens - http://up.secondwavemedia.com/innovationnews/smartphone100913.aspx
Dark Sky Meter (iOS app) - http://www.darkskymeter.com/home-2/
Eight Apps that Turn Citizens into Scientists - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/8-apps-that-turn-citizens-into-scientists/
Globe at Night (light pollution) - http://www.globeatnight.org/
Great Sunflower Project / Bees - http://www.greatsunflower.org/
iCoast (USGS) - http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/icoast/about.php
iSpot Nature (Open Lab/Open Univ) - http://www.ispotnature.org/communities/global
International Barcode of Life - http://ibol.org/
LeafSnap (Smithsonian) - http://leafsnap.com/
Loss of the Night (Light Pollution) - http://cosalux.de/#/en/portfolio-en/loss-of-the-night-android-app/
Marine Animal Identification Network (online template) - http://main.whoi.edu/report.cfm
Marine Debris Tracker - http://www.marinedebris.engr.uga.edu/
Mobile Apps for Citizen Science (via Smithsonian) - http://www.ssec.si.edu/blog/mobile-apps-for-citizen-science
NASA Earth Exchange (NEX platform for scientific collaboration, knowledge sharing and research for the Earth science community) - https://nex.nasa.gov/nex/
National Science Foundation (US/"Citizen Science") - http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/citizenscience.jsp
NestWatch - http://nestwatch.org/
NOAA - http://www.climate.gov/teaching/resources/climate-change-and-citizen-science
Nova Energy Lab (PBS-Harvard) - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/energy/
Ocean Spaces (monitoring marine protected areas) - http://oceanspaces.org/
Open Scientist - http://www.openscientist.org/p/citizen-science-for-your-phone.html
Open Tree (urban forest mapping) - https://www.opentreemap.org/
Open University Lab - http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/open-science/
Project Noah (National Geographic) - http://www.projectnoah.org/
SatCam (iOS app) supports the Terra, Aqua, and Suomi NPP satellites - http://satcam.ssec.wisc.edu/
SciStarter (list of several hundred cit science projects) - http://scistarter.com/index.html / http://scistarter.com/blog/#sthash.ex9FXlZ3.dpbs
Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/
Sensr, Citizen Science app (Carnegie Mellon) - http://www.sensr.org/
TreeMap LA (TreePeople) - http://www.treepeople.org/ - https://www.treepeople.org/action
Union of Concerned Scientists, You + Your Computer = Carbon Detective - http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/what_you_can_do/climate-change-citizen-science.html#.VLgLJHv44Rk
US Global Change/Climate Assessment (Dec 2014) - http://www.globalchange.gov/news/open-government-data-more-resilient-natural-resources
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/12/09/unleashing-climate-data-and-innovation-more-resilient-ecosystems
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/cdi-ecosystems-12-9.pdf
Water monitoring (http://www.wef.org/ education/kit) - https://www.lamotte.com/secure/wwmday/
Whale Song Project - http://whale.fm/
You can be a scientist too (EPA) - http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/scientists/citizen-science.html
Zooniverse - https://www.zooniverse.org/
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Pages in category "Air Pollution"
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- Each of us can make a positive difference
- Earth Science
- Environmental agreements
- Environmental full-cost accounting
- Environmental Law, Rollbacks under Trump 2016-20
- Environmental Laws and Modern Environmental Movement
- Environmental Protection Agency
- ESA Living Planet Announcement - May 2022
- European Union Green Deal - Fit for 55
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- George E. Brown Jr
- Glasgow Climate Summit - Pledges, Promises, Declarations - What's Next Up
- Going Green
- Google Earth Timelapse
- Green Stories of the Day
- Green Stories of the Day - GreenPolicy360 Archive
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2013
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2014
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2015
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2016
- GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2017
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