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Urgent action needed to stop terrifying rise in air pollution, warns OECD
2016-06-09 17:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution is becoming a terrifying problem around the globe, one of the worlds leading economic organisations has warned, and will get much worse in the coming decades if urgent steps are not taken to control the pollution. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Thursday that pollution of our air from industry, agriculture and transport was set to cause as many as 9 million premature deaths a year around the world in the next four decades, and the economic...
Telefonica to fight air pollution with mobile data
2016-06-07 09:57:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Big data analytics company Teralytics has partnered with sustainability solutions specialist South Pole Group, Telefonica Germany and the city of Nuremberg to find a smart data system for air pollution. The partners will collect data in order to identify the major air pollution hotspots using mobile data, seen as an accurate, scalable and cost effective method. Teralytics will help telecom operators like Telefonica Germany transform massive amounts of mobile signal data into useful insights about traffic and crowd mobility patterns on a real-time, nationwide scale. Customer data will remain fully protected during the process.
Confirmed! Air Pollution Linked to High Blood Pressure
2016-06-04 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Here's another reason to cut down on carbon emissions. A study published in the journal Hypertension reported that air pollution is tied to high blood pressure, a major risk factor for coronary heart disease which kills over 370,000 people annually. High cholesterol and smoking were previously proven as risk factors, and while pollution has been hypothesized as a risk factor since 1900s, it is only recently that it has been proven through a meta-analysis. By analyzing groups of study on...
Air pollution is a real heartbreaker. No, really
2016-05-27 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Guess what? Breathing polluted air isn`t just bad for your lungs - it could be hurting your heart, too. A 10-year study published in The Lancet this week links living with air pollution to serious heart disease. While scientists have long associated long-term air pollution exposure with cardiovascular disease, research had been limited. Thats why the EPA funded the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution, which tracked 5,843 people in New York City, Chicago, Baltimore, St. Paul,...
10-year study shows how air pollution fosters heart disease; accelerated plaque build-up in arteries
2016-05-25 17:56:05| Green Car Congress
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