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Toxic air from fossil fuels responsible for air pollution crisis, study warns

Business Green

Researchers estimate that toxic air produced by burning fossil fuels causes an estimated 4.5 Burning fossil fuels is not just driving climate change, it is also generating an air pollution crisis that is wiping trillions of dollars from the world economy every year. million premature deaths a year. per cent of global GDP.

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Measuring NOx in combustion

Envirotec Magazine

NOx is a generic term for the oxides of nitrogen that have significant effects on the environment and human health. Globally, a wide variety of organisations have published reports linking serious health effects with short- and long-term exposure to NO2. Ozonator design. Chemiluminescent photon detector.

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New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection

DeSmogBlog

Their harmful impacts on human and ecosystem health are generally well understood. The fossil fuel industry, pesticides, and industrial agriculture are inextricably linked,” explained Asha Sharma, PANNA organizing co-director and co-author of the report.

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Report: Pollution is connected to 9 million deaths worldwide each year

Grist

That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. There’s not a whole lot being done about it,” said Rachael Kupka, executive director of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and one of the report’s coauthors.

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US, China commit to phase down climate-warming HFCs from refrigerators and air conditioners – but what will replace them this time?

Renewable Energy World

CFCs were destroying the ozone layer high in the Earth’s atmosphere, which is essential for protecting life from the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. But when they break down, they create chlorine that reacts with the protective ozone, letting dangerous radiation through to the Earth’s surface. Why HFCs are a climate problem.

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TED Talk: Humanity’s Planet-Shaping Powers and What They Mean for the Future

Sustainability Consulting

Steiner argues that humanity has achieved many radical things like closing a giant hole in the ozone layer, ending nuclear proliferation and smallpox, but we have also taken the Earth to the brink. We spend more on subsidizing the fossil fuel industry than we do on all renewable energy. Here are a few examples.

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Los Angeles gets an F in air quality

AGreenLiving

As far as ozone pollution goes, L.A. This year’s installation of the American Lung Association’s State of the Air report gave Los Angeles , Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties an F in particle and ozone pollution. and surrounding counties lead the nation, says a new study. Forty percent of U.S.

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