Tag Archives: Air Pollution

Air pollution may up mortality risk beyond lung cancer

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Air pollution represents a complex mixture of a broad range of carcinogenic and mutagenic substances that may play a role in chronic systemic inflammation, oxidative stress and DNA damage in tissues that could ultimately prove fatal. Air pollution can increase … Continue reading →

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Dust Storms Blanket Khuzestan, Western Iran

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Schools were closed across parts of Iran amid severe dust storms that prompted officials to release “red alert” warnings as the concentration of dust and particles in the air has soared above safe levels. Several cities in the oil-rich province … Continue reading →

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How dangerous is the air where you live? UK’s most polluted towns and cities revealed

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Research suggests the air in 44 out of 51 British towns and cities has failed pollution tests – posing a risk to human health. Millions of people in the UK are inhaling air considered too dangerous to breathe by the … Continue reading →

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Mongolia’s deadly air pollution chokes the ‘Land of Eternal Blue Sky’

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

A combination of extreme winter temperatures, poor infrastructure and urban sprawl in the Mongolian capital has created one of the worst cases of air pollution in the world At the end of a bright autumn day in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, … Continue reading →

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Pollutant emitted by forest fire causes DNA damage and lung cell death

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

When exposed in a laboratory to pollution levels comparable to those found in the atmosphere of the Amazon region during the forest and crop burning season, human lung cells suffer severe DNA damage and stop dividing. After 72 hours of … Continue reading →

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Sulfur dioxide pollution tied to degraded sperm quality

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

Men’s sperm counts have plummeted by up to 60% over the last 40 years in Western countries and by nearly 30% since 2001 in China. Experts lack firm answers regarding the cause of the sperm deficit but suspect that behaviors … Continue reading →

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Flouting the law aggravating air pollution, killing thousands 

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

The winter is coming and once more days of choking smog are awaiting city dwellers in metropolises of Iran. A great deal of air pollution in Tehran and other big cities is blamed on a phenomenon called inversion. Inversions occur … Continue reading →

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Madrid reactivates anti-air pollution protocol 

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Respro® UK Ltd

The Madrid City Hall on Tuesday reactivated its anti-air pollution protocol and advised it would step up to level two of the protocol and its subsequent restrictions on traffic after levels of over 180 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide per cubic … Continue reading →

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