• 2026-01-26 04:28

    South Korea tightens indoor air quality standards in public facilities

    Legal updates in Korea Published : Jan. 26, 2026 – 13:28:59 Jung Min-kyung Updated Law: Enforcement Rule of the Indoor Air Quality Control Act What it does: Lowers allowable indoor ultrafine dust levels in public-use facilities Took effect: Jan. 1 South Korea has strengthened indoor air quality rules for public facilities in an effort to
  • 2024-12-17 11:54

    Is Es 2024 Pmf V 2

    Ningrui Liu, Rajni Oshan, Magali Blanco, Lianne Sheppard, Edmund Seto, Timothy Larson, Elena Austin OCTOBER 24, 2024 Contents Introduction Methods Results and discussion Conclusions Contents Introduction Methods Results and discussion Conclusions Introduction ◼ Health issues of air pollution • Adverse health outcomes: cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, lung cancer, etc. • Global Burden of Disease 2021: Air pollution is the second leading risk factor, accounting for 8.2% of total DALYs. ◼ Mobile monitoring (MM) studies GBD2021, Lancet, 2024, 403: 2162–2203. Apte et al., Science, 2024, 385: 380–385. • Drive vehicles with high-quality instruments through fixed routes • Have higher spatial resolution than regulatory monitoring RESEARCH GAP OF MM • More focus on PM2.5 than ultrafine particles (UFPs), while health impacts depend on size distribution and chemical composition • Multi-pollutant spatiotemporal data from MM have not been fully used in health studies. Introduction ◼ Source apportionment (SA) studies • Use multi-pollutant data to derive the sources • Approach: positive matrix factorization (PMF), PCA, et al. • Many relied on regulatory monitoring data, and few on MM Hopke et al., Sci. Total Environ., 2020, 740: 140091. Hopke et al., Sci. Total Environ., 2022, 819: 153104. Larson et al., Atmos. Environ., 2017, 152: 201-211. RESEARCH GAP OF SA-MM • Few considered particle size distribution • Few classified traffic-related source into different vehicle types • Limited time frames (days to weeks) ◼ Research aims: PMF + MM 1. Characterize emission sources more accurately 2. Assess source-specific air pollution exposures 3. Estimate the annual average emission…
  • 2024-10-24 01:33

    EPA imposes stricter standards to protect children from exposure to lead paint

    Oct. 24, 2024 at 2:04 am Updated Oct. 24, 2024 at 2:33 pm      1 of 2 | FILE – Contractors Luis Benitez, foreground, and Jose Diaz, background, clean up lead paint in a contaminated building, Feb. 23, 2006, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) By  MATTHEW DALY The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks
  • 2024-08-07 12:16

    Study suggests ultrafine particles linked to 1,100 deaths per year in Montreal and Toronto

    Study followed 1.5 million people over 15 years Joe Bongiorno · The Canadian Press · Posted: Aug 07, 2024 3:49 PM PDT | Last Updated: August 7 McGill professor breaks down how vehicle and industry pollution affect our health Duration 4:46 Scott Weichenthal is with McGill University’s department of epidemiology and biostatistics, and is the
  • 2024-08-05 13:01

    Ultrafine particles linked to over 1,000 deaths per year in Canada’s two largest cities

    A first-of-its kind study conducted in Canada’s two largest cities by McGill-led researchers has linked about 1,100 premature deaths per year to an unregulated air pollutant. Ultrafine particles (UFPs) primarily come from vehicle emissions and industrial activities. Canada’s federal and provincial governments have not set concentration limits for UFPs, as they have for larger fine
  • 2024-07-16 15:06

    ‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town

    By Andrew R Chow/Granbury, Texas | Photographs by Jake Dockins for TIME An aerial view of Marathon Digital Holdings’ bitcoin mine in Granbury, Texas, on May 21, 2024. Drone operation by Izaac Costiniano On an evening in December 2023, 43-year-old small business owner Sarah Rosenkranz collapsed in her home in Granbury, Texas and was rushed
  • 2024-06-12 23:58

    The Brink: Airplane Noise May Be Bad for Your Health

    Researchers find that exposure to aircraft noise is tied to a higher body mass index, which can increase risk of heart attack and stroke June 4, 2024 2 Jillian McKoy As you jet off on vacation this summer, spare a thought for those living under your flight path. The noise of your plane whisking you
  • 2024-05-24 22:50

    Aircraft noise exposure and body mass index among female participants in two Nurses’ Health Study prospective cohorts living around 90 airports in the United States

    Individuals who are frequently exposed to airplane noise are more at risk of developing a cluster of cardiometabolic conditions such as heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension. A new study has discovered that people who are regularly exposed to airplanes and helicopters flying overhead are more likely to have a high BMI – a risk factor for multiple