fine particulate matter Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 02 Dec 2014 07:55:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Scientists Find a Pill Against Air Pollution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scientists-find-pill-air-pollution-20141202/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scientists-find-pill-air-pollution-20141202/#respond Tue, 02 Dec 2014 07:55:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=50421 Air pollution poses a serious health risk, causing painful and often deadly heart and lung disease, as well as being the reason for millions of premature deaths around the world. Everyone knows the solution- “Stop Polluting!”, yet secretly there is that desire to just take a pill and make it all go away with minimum […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scientists-find-pill-air-pollution-20141202/feed/ 0 50421 High Ozone Levels Linked to Heart Attacks https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ozone-levels-heart-attacks-20130219/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ozone-levels-heart-attacks-20130219/#respond Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:25:09 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=33595 Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas have proven a definite correlation between cardiac arrests occurring outside the hospital and air pollution and ozone levels. At the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Boston, Rice statisticians Katherine Ensor and Loren Raun announced their findings, which they derived from a huge data […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ozone-levels-heart-attacks-20130219/feed/ 0 33595 US Life Expectancy Improves as Air Pollution Decreases https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-life-expectancy-improves-as-air-pollution-decreases-20121205/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-life-expectancy-improves-as-air-pollution-decreases-20121205/#respond Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:42:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29345 The Harvard School of Public Heath (HSPH) conducted the largest study to date to determine the relationship between reductions in fine particulate matter and improved life expectancy. The study concluded that between the US population being exposed to much lower levels of air pollution than 30 years ago and reductions in fine particulate matter in […]

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