Healthier Streets: How Superblocks and Congestion Pricing Can Help Reduce Air Pollution in Washington, DC

Air Pollution and Traffic Measurements in Bangkok Streets

Ambient air quality and traffic density measurements were conducted during January to December 2001 at four air monitoring sites in Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR). The ambient air pollutants included carbon monoxide (CO), particulate matter (PM10), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3) and benzene. The diurnal variations of air pollutant levels were generally identical to ...

How Food Industries Can Help in Preventing Childhood Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome?

How Efficient Transport Pricing Can Reduce Roadway Crash Risks

This report evaluates the traffic safety impacts of various transport pricing reforms including fuel tax increases, efficient road and parking pricing, distance-based insurance and registration fees, and public transit fare reductions. This analysis indicates that such reforms can significantly reduce traffic risk, in addition to providing other important economic, social and environmental bene...

Tropospheric Ozone: an Air Pollution Problem Arising in the Washington,

Weather fleck observed on certain varieties of tobacco since 1052 at the U.S. r)epartment of Agriculture Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md., may be indicative of an ozone air pollr~tion problem arising in the Washington, I1.C. area. A study of ozone concentrations and meteorological conditions existing prior to and at the time of the occurrence of weather fleck indicates that the high ozon...

How acupuncture can help

People with vertigo have the illusion that the environment is moving about them, or that they are moving with respect to the environment.(DTB 2009) The condition usually originates in the peripheral nervous system, for example, due to a disorder of the inner ear such as Ménière's disease, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), or labyrinthitis and vestibular neuritis. It can also be due t...