pollution

Cairo is known for its overcrowded roads, irregular driving practices and shaky old vehicles, but also for its air pollution.

air pollution costs the global economy more than $5 trillion annually in welfare costs, with the most serious damage occurring in the developing world.

All of which, combined with California's reputation as the home of technological innovation, makes the place ideal for developing and testing systems designed to monitor pollution in detail.

Around 9 in 10 people in low- and middle-income countries live in places where they regularly experience dangerous levels of outdoor air pollution.

Davida Herzl, Aclima's boss, says they have revealed pollution highs on days when San Francisco's transit workers went on strike and the city's inhabitants were forced to use their cars.

Indoor pollution, which includes sources like home heating and cooking, has remained constant over the past several decades despite advances in the area.

It has been trying out monitoring stations that are intended to yield minute-to-minute maps of outdoor air pollution.

Levels of outdoor pollution have grown rapidly along with rapid growth in industry and transportation.

Maintaining safe speeds and being electric, self-driving cars would drastically reduce pollution levels and dependency on non-renewable fuels.

millions die early from air pollution each year.

The aircraft cost 25 million pounds and can carry heavier loads than huge jet planes while also producing less noise and emitting less pollution.

The effects of air pollution are worst in the developing world, where in some places lost-labor income equals-nearly 1% of GDP.

The figures include a number of costs associated with air pollution.

The report includes both indoor and outdoor air pollution.

5 million people died prematurely from outdoor air pollution in 2015.

Traffic has become synonymous with air pollution, and many countries intend to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the next two decades.

According to the author, polluting industries should fight against carbon pollution.

Advanced lights, motors, and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution.

Although Dr Dominoni has only studied light pollution, other research concluded that robins living in noisy cities have started to sing at night to make themselves heard over loud noise.

And because the process of recycling steel is less polluting than making new steel, we've also achieved the following significant savings; in energy use—47% to 74%; in air pollution—85%; in water pollution—35%; in water use—40%.

Because there is less light pollution.

But the most sensible form of adaptation is surely to adapt our energy systems to emit less carbon pollution.

Her popular 1962 book Silent Spring raised awareness of the dangers of pollution and the harmful effects of chemicals on humans and on the world's lakes and oceans.

Humans are no less trapped by light pollution than the frogs.

In 1969, the pollution was terrible along the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland, Ohio.

It leads to air pollution and global warming.

It took years of work to reduce the industrial pollution and clean the water.

Light pollution dose harm to the eyesight of animals.

Light pollution has destroyed some of the world heritages.

Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky.

Long before most of us even noticed what we now call "the environment," Buckminster Fuller said, "Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting."

The benefits of this kind of engineering come with consequences 一 called light pollution 一 whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study.

The exhibition tells us why we should do something to stop air pollution.

The loss of shade trees is already causing a slight change in the world's climate, and studies show that loss of oxygen-giving trees also leads to air pollution and global warming.

The writer mentions birds and frogs to show how light pollution affects animals.

They have reduced pollution through effective measures.

This switch has decreased pollution in the country's major lakes and reservoirs and made drinking water safer for people.

To return to the problem of water pollution, I'd like you to look at a study conducted in Australia in 2012.

When the polluting industries argue that we've lost the battle to control carbon pollution and have no choice but to adapt, it's a nonsense designed to make the case for business as usual.

At night, scan the horizon for artificial light sources, such as fires and streetlights, then walk toward the glow of light pollution.

That s because they inevitably put the costs of cleaning the air on to individual drivers-who must pay fees or buy better vehicles 一rather than on to the car manufacturers whose cheating is the real cause of our toxic pollution.

Wales has introduced special low speed limits to minimize pollution.