Air Pollution and Atherosclerosis: New Evidence to Support Air Quality Policies

Air Pollution and Atherosclerosis: New Evidence to Support Air Quality Policies

Increasing attention is being paid to the subject of air pollution, with the bulk of previous work being done in animal models suggesting that exposure to air pollution causes atherosclerosis—stiffening and calcification of the arteries—in rabbits and mice [1,2]. The new findings of Sara Adar and colleagues, published in this week’s PLOS Medicine [3], take us a step forward in clarifying the br...

Air pollution: health hazards and policies.

Global air quality and pollution.

The impact of global air pollution on climate and the environment is a new focus in atmospheric science. Intercontinental transport and hemispheric air pollution by ozone jeopardize agricultural and natural ecosystems worldwide and have a strong effect on climate. Aerosols, which are spread globally but have a strong regional imbalance, change global climate through their direct and indirect ef...

A new generation air pollution alert system: integrating air quality models and location-aware mobile devices

This paper introduces a new real-time air pollution alert system using mobile devices. Through the location awareness capability of mobile devices, Androidand iOS-based apps are developed to inform the public residing in the vicinity of air pollution areas. The apps have shown to be working successfully sending push notifications as well as a regional map to convey the air pollution information...

Air Pollution in New Zealand

The control of air pollution is more of an art than a science, still lacking an adequate power of numeration to qualify as a truly scientific discipI-ine, despite a long history of concern about it. There was, for example, legislation against air pollution in London in the 13th century, and, until the time of Pasteur, sundry qualities of "night airs" and "fetid vapours" were held re~ sponsible ...