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Do our babies and grand babies have a chance at being really healthy?
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Medical officer encourages more efforts to make Comox Valley air cleaner
To an individual, the risk of air pollution may seem small but when it goes across the population, Enns said, the percentage actually becomes quite significant in terms of the number of people that are potentially going to have a negative effect from poor air quality.
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breatheCLEAN filters and the use of Nanofibers
Technology abounds in every area of your life. And it has taken leaps and bounds forward in your furnace filter. Consider that you can now buy affordably, a nano-fiber based filter from breatheCLEAN for less money (on a life cycle basis) than the disposable cardboard filters you are used to getting.
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The impact of PM2.5 on asthma emergency department visits: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
This demonstrates that ambient PM2.5 has an adverse impact on asthma ED visits after short-term exposure and that children are a high-risk population when PM2.5 concentrations are high, particularly in warm seasons, during which measures should be taken to prevent PM2.5.
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Air in Mangaluru high in lead content, reveals study; report submitted to Rai
Of the six parameters measured, PM2.5, PM10 and lead have been observed to exceed the permissible limits in a few locations. PM2.5 and PM10 were found to be high in three of the 12 locations (Bunts Hostel, Pumpwell and Baikampady), and PM2.5 alone in six of the 12 junctions (PVS junction, Bunts Host
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Ilderton entrepreneur develops furnace filter with big improvements
Peter Bruijns felt frustrated tossing $40 furnace filters in the trash every year.
So he decided to design a 10-centimetre-wide filter that can be reused and works better than the disposable kind.
“It always bothered me. I wanted to make a impact on health, recycling and quality,” said Bruijns, a
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One million preterm births in India owing to bad air
The researchers said that in 2010, about 18% of all preterm births recorded globally were associated with outdoor exposure to fine particulate matter smaller that 2.5 microns or PM2.5. This air pollutant is known to damage human health as it has the tendency to penetrate deep inside the lungs which
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Climate change: How do we know?
The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era
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Govt to strengthen air pollution monitoring
The Environment Ministry will strengthen from April its systems to monitor fine particulate matter called PM2.5 (see below), which causes air pollution. It will set up highly sophisticated equipment in 10 locations nationwide to analyze PM2.5 components in detail 24 hours a day, ...
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23 EU countries are breaking European air quality laws
European air quality laws are being flaunted in more than 130 cities across 23 of the 28 EU member states, the European Commission said yesterday (6 February).
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