Limit your exposure to particulate matter. Limit your cumulative risk. The smoke from wildfires has once again blanketed the areas around Sea-Tac Airport, creating PM2.5 air quality readings often seen more in Third World countries. Unfortunately, most of us are highly biased to only perceive dangers we can see. For example, many of you will
Anna Aldrich, University of California, Irvine The brains of wild type (WT) and Alzheimer’s (APP) mouse models were analyzed after exposure to purified air (Con) and ultrafine particulate matter (PM) for the presence of astrocyte cells. These were visualized by staining them green (left column), with potentially harmful and activated astrocytes appearing in red (middle
Community Projects are a recent innovation in the State Legislature. Essentially, House members sponsor their own grants which are funded as capital projects. In this case, $340,000 is being allocated for two ultrafine particle monitors to be handed off to Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA). One will be in Chinatown, at the confluence of
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There is this form of air pollution, which you probably have not heard of, called ultrafine particulates (UFPs). Though they are invisible, they seem to have some particularly nasty effects on human health. UFPs have not been well-studied, they are unregulated, and yet they are prevalent in commercial jet engine emissions. But this is not
https://seatacnoise.info/wp-content/uploads/20ECZoomCommunityReportBack12-5-20%20copy.mp4 Seattle Beacon Hill Air & Noise Pollution Community Meeting Dec 5, 2020 10:00 AM sponsored by El Centro De La Raza and hosted by Maria Batayola. Featured speakers were Congressman Adam Smith and Dr. Edmund Seto of UW DEOHS. Related: The Relationship Between Flight Traffic, Ultrafine Particles and Noise from the Seattle Aircraft Air
Hyouk-Soo Kwon, Min Hyung Ryu & Christopher Carlsten Experimental & Molecular Medicine volume 52, pages318–328 (2020)Cite this article 15k Accesses 98 Citations 82 Altmetric Metricsdetails Abstract Ultrafine particles (UFPs) are aerosols with an aerodynamic diameter of 0.1 µm (100 nm) or less. There is a growing concern in the public health community about the contribution of UFPs to human health. Despite their modest mass
Current pollution meters don’t count the very smallest pollutants – nanoparticles. Recent research suggests these tiny toxic substances could be a major cause of illness and death. By Tim Smedley 15th November 2019 A After years of headlines about air pollution, we’ve been misled on a few things about the world’s biggest environmental health problem.
Jet engine exhaust is a significant source of ultrafine particles and aviation-related emissions can adversely impact air quality over large areas surrounding airports. We investigated outdoor and indoor ultrafine particle number concentrations (PNC) from 16 residences located in two study areas in the greater Boston metropolitan area (MA, USA) for evidence of aviation-related impacts. During
