The study aimed to appraise the effect of different air pollutants viz. SO2, NOx, SPM and RSPM on biophysiological as well as yield characteristics of wheat and mustard plants grown at different sites in the urban and industrial areas of Haridwar City. The ambient levels of air pollutants were lowest at site 2 and 4 and hence these sites were treated as control sites for comparing the response ...

Studies on animals and human subjects have proposed that urban pollutants may cause alterations of cortisol levels. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether police officers exposed to urban pollutants and possible psycho-social stressors could be at risk for alterations on plasma cortisol levels compared to a control group. Plasma cortisol levels were determined in 302 police officers with ...

Air pollution levels were monitored continuously over a period of 4 weeks at four sampling sites along a busy urban corridor in Brisbane. The selected sites were representative of industrial and residential types of urban environment affected by vehicular traffic emissions. The concentration levels of submicrometer particle number, PM2.5, PM10, CO, and NOx were measured 5-10 meters from the roa...

EDITORIAL article Front. Environ. Chem., 07 February 2023Sec. Chemical Treatments Volume 4 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvc.2023.1151859

Ambient air pollution in urban and industrial areas in Greece was a serious environmental problem which was connected with rapid urbanization of cities, anarchic housing development without basic infrastructures and increases of motor vehicle fleet in urban regions. Especially Athens, witnessed severe air pollution problems in the decades 1960s‘-1970s‘ and the formation of the infamous brown-ye...

R Re es sp pi ir ra at to or ry y e ef ff fe ec ct ts s o of f a ai ir r p po ol ll lu ut ti io on n: : t th he e i im mp po or rt ta an nc ce e o of f a a m mu ul lt ti id di is sc ci ip pl li in na ar ry y a ap pp pr ro oa ac ch h t to o c co on nd du uc ct t r re es se ea ar rc ch h Investigation of the respiratory effects of air pollution were started in the late fifties after the important...

Rapid urbanization throughout eastern China is imposing an irreversible effect on local climate and air quality. In this paper, we examine the response of a range of meteorological and air quality indicators to urbanization. Our study uses the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with chemistry (WRF/Chem) to simulate the climate and air quality impacts of four hypothetical urbanizatio...