And now a reporter is telling the 35-year-old that the World Health Organisation had just identified this baked corner of California as having the country’s worst air pollution.
We continue to source relevant articles published worldwide, which are organized by where you live, for your convenience.
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Life in San Joaquin valley, the place with the worst air pollution in America
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Spike In California Air Pollution Brings Reminder Of Bad Old Days
“It’s shocking sometimes to see the valley on a bad day,” said Mike Kleeman, a professor at the University of California, Davis, who studies air quality...
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Why Does California’s Central Valley Have Such Bad Air Pollution?
Of the 375 U.S. cities included in the list, only 36 of them exceed the WHO’s air quality standard of 20 micrograms of particulates per cubic meter, on average. That’s pretty good. But of the ten worst performing cities, five are located in California’s Central Valley.
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Air pollution – particulate matter
Find out how healthy your county is and explore factors that drive your health
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Study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease
Long-term exposure to air pollution has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, but the biological process has not been understood. A major, decade-long study of thousands of Americans found that people living in areas with more outdoor pollution — even at lower levels common in the...
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Millions die from air pollution, mainly in China, India
“Air pollution is the fourth highest risk factor for death globally and by far the leading environmental risk factor for disease,” said Michael Brauer, a professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health in Vancouver, Canada.
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Particulate Matter (PM)
The size of particles is directly linked to their potential for causing health problems. Small particles less than 10 micrometers in diameter pose the greatest problems, because they can get deep into your lungs, and some may even get into your bloodstream.
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Brief exposure to tiny air pollution particles triggers childhood lung infections
Even the briefest increase in airborne fine particulate matter PM2.5, pollution-causing particles that are about 3 percent of the diameter of human hair, is associated with the development of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) in young children, according to newly published research.
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Models for Computing Effect of Pollutants on the Lower Respiratory Tract
In this paper, a model for aerodynamic behaviour of particulates (air pollutants) that diffuses into the airway in the human lower respiratory track (LRT) containing mixture of pollutants, water droplets and mucus is considered
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The air-pollution death knell — India are we listening?
According to a new study in India by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), the Health Effects Institute (HEI), and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), in 2015, only one in 1000 Indians lived in areas where particulate pollution did not exceed..
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