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Coronavirus face masks - which are the best face masks and why?

18/07/2020
Unmasking facemasks: Homemade face masks vs high-tech face coverings With so much information out there at the moment, it’s no wonder there’s major confusion over face masks. Governments have flip-flopped from dismissing them to mandating them in what seems like a matter of weeks and even the...
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Coronavirus face masks - which are the best face masks and why?

18th July 2020
Unmasking facemasks: Homemade face masks vs high-tech face coverings With so much information out there at the moment, it’s no wonder there’s major confusion over face masks. Governments have flip-flopped from dismissing them to mandating them in what seems like a matter of weeks and even the ...
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How to Avoid Vehicle Pollution When You're Stuck in Traffic

20th August 2019
This article originally appeared on time.com (see link below). Most non-electric motor vehicles emit multiple airborne pollutants, including nitrogen dioxide, hydrocarbons, and ultrafine chemical particles. Breathing in these pollutants can cause or contribute to a wide range of health problems, ...
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Air pollution may have killed 30,000 people in a single year, study says

25th July 2019
This article originally appeared on CNN.com    More than 30,000 deaths in the United States in a single year may have been caused by air pollution, according to a study published Tuesday.   Those deaths came even as almost every county in the United States remained within federal air quality ...
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Greenpeace launches Hong Kong pollution campaign as volunteers talk about the impact city’s bad air has on their health

24th July 2019
This article originally appeared on scmp.com    Mrs Ho had always considered herself fit and healthy, but she had a nasty shock two years ago when she suffered an incessant coughing fit.   “I coughed uncontrollably, drawing odd stares and dirty looks from people around me on the street. I ended...
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Air pollution exposure during pregnancy linked to lower IQs in kids, study says

22nd July 2019
This article originally appeared on komonews.com    Pregnant woman exposed to high levels of air pollution had children with lower IQs, researchers found.   The study led by University of Washington and University of California, San Francisco accessed the IQs of a little over 1,000 pregnant women...
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EPA hails Trump's work on reducing air pollution

19th July 2019
This article originally appeared on thehill.com   The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pointed to a new study released Wednesday to emphasize what it characterized as the Trump administration’s achievements in decreasing air pollution.   The report showed that emissions from all six ...
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Reducing car traffic could be the only solution to reduce air pollution

18th July 2019
This article originally appeared on euractiv.com    The massive reduction of car traffic could be the best solution to sustainably improving air quality, according to a report published by France’s health and food safety agency on Tuesday (16 July). EURACTIV’s partner le Journal de l’...
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Billions of air pollution particles found in hearts of city dwellers

17th July 2019
This article originally appeared on The Guardian    The hearts of young city dwellers contain billions of toxic air pollution particles, research has revealed.   Scientists revealed that damage could be seen in the cells of the organ’s critical pumping muscles that contained the tiny particles...
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What are the effects of the ever-growing shipping industry to Hong Kong’s environment?

16th July 2019
This article originally appeared on scmp.com    Air pollution, a global “public health emergency”, according to the WHO – one that has a “disastrous effect on children” in particular – and dirty air may be damaging every organ and virtually every cell in the human body. According to a ...
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Air pollution ages your lungs faster and increases your risk of COPD, study says

9th July 2019
This article originally appeared on CNN.com   Air pollution does a lot more damage to our lungs than scientists realized, according to a new study in Monday's European Respiratory Journal. Researchers found it ages lungs more quickly and putting us at higher risk of COPD.   Your lung function ...

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