air pollution
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Human Behavior in the Presence of Wildfire Smoke: New Methods Reveal Differences in Group Responses
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There is a growing awareness about the harmful effects of wildfire smoke and how those effects vary across socioeconomic groups. A new study by Berke et al. in Nature Human Behaviour suggests that differences in groups’ behavior, influenced by socioeconomic realities, may help explain why disadvantaged groups are disproportionately impacted…
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Do Electric School Buses Have an Impact in the Classroom?
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Policy experts have studied the many social determinants of health for years. Most researchers agree that a person’s health is dependent on his or her social and physical environment. Many studies have examined how repeated exposure to air pollution increases the risk of developing asthma and pneumonia. School buses, which…
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Ethanol Cookstoves and Their Impact on Pregnant Women: Lessons from Nigeria
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In Nigeria and much of the developing world, kerosene and biomass fuels are used to provide energy for cooking, heating, and lighting. Reliance on these fuels leads to high levels of household air pollution (HAP), which causes 4.3 million premature deaths worldwide, according to a 2012 World Health Organization (WHO)…
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games: Spillover Effects on Air Quality and Health
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A study links special government controls on pollution enacted during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing to significant increases in air quality and significant decreases in mortality rates associated with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.
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Feel It in the Air: Pollution and Crime in Chicago
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A recent study provides the first quasi-experimental evidence of a link between air pollution and criminal behavior. Researchers estimate the cost of pollution-induced crime and make a case for environmental sustainability policies that consider the impact of pollution and crime on communities.
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Are electric cars more environmentally friendly? It depends where you drive them.
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The boom in electric car sales, enhanced by federal subsidies, does not reflect the fact that, in some cases, powering those cars produces more emissions than powering conventional cars. The characteristics of each state and regional mode of electricity generation should be considered in designing a subsidy (or tax) scheme.
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Dreaming of Blue Skies: The Impact of Winter Heating on Air Quality in Northern China
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Winter heating is linked to higher ambient concentrations of total suspended particles (TSP) and a reduction in life expectancy in northern China.
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The State of the Union in Brief
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To encourage evidence-based policy, CPR lists some of the most relevant research on President Obama’s policy proposals in the State of the Union.
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Why We’ll Need More Than Just Inhalers if Climate Change and Air Pollution Persist
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A large, multi-country study in Europe demonstrates a synergistic relationship between climate change and air pollution and their negative effects on respiratory health.
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Gender Dynamics and Public Health Technology: Clean Cookstoves in Bangladesh
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Authors investigate how women’s bargaining power in the household can influence the success of public health interventions.