Category:Air Pollution

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Air Pollution Across the World

Beijing's Air Pollution

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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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• 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/

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• 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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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."

Video of 'Smog' in 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

From the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development

http://www.igsd.org/california-governor-signs-worlds-toughest-super-pollutant-law/

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'".

Air Resources Board - Model Regulations / 'Green Best Practices'

ARB - Background

"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

TZOA

http://www.mytzoa.com/#homepage

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/741031201/airbeam-share-and-improve-your-air

https://mylapka.com/pem/

http://www.joinclarity.io

http://www.citi-sense.eu

http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/abs/10.1021/es505362x

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References:

Air Pollution G. Tyler Miller’s Living in the Environment - http://slideplayer.com/slide/5994183/

Air Visibility Monitoring (Android app) - http://robotics.usc.edu/~mobilesensing/Projects/AirVisibilityMonitoring

Citizen Science Alliance - http://www.citizensciencealliance.org/

Clean Technica - https://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/09/care-about-your-heart-lungs-you-should-care-about-carbon-emissions-driving-costs-more-than-gas-prices-show/

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

Eight Apps that Turn Citizens into Scientists - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/8-apps-that-turn-citizens-into-scientists/

Environmental Health Perspectives / Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality and Air Pollution - http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/advpub/2015/12/ehp.1509777.acco.pdf

Green Car Congress - http://www.greencarcongress.com/2012/03/us-study-of-miners-links-heavy-exposure-to-diesel-exhaust-to-increased-risk-of-lung-cancer-death-res.html

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

NOAA - http://www.climate.gov/teaching/resources/climate-change-and-citizen-science

Open Scientist - http://www.openscientist.org/p/citizen-science-for-your-phone.html

Open University Lab - http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/open-science/

Project Noah (National Geographic) - http://www.projectnoah.org/

Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/

Sensr, Citizen Science app (Carnegie Mellon) - http://www.sensr.org/

You can be a scientist too (EPA) - http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/scientists/citizen-science.html

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