Sentence examples for more particulate matter from inspiring English sources

These release more particulate matter than modern diesel cars.

Let's hope that for their sake, we won't have to worry about more particulate matter clouding the air.

(Any kind of charcoal, however, releases more particulate matter than propane, which makes charcoal a greater contributor to air pollution. There are few easy choices in environmental analysis).

"When birds can run around, they can also stir up more particulate matter in the air," said Darrin Karcher, a poultry extension specialist at Michigan State University and a researcher for the Coalition for Sustainable Egg Supply.

But it has had an unintended consequence in the form of greater air pollution, because diesel engines spew out more particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide than petrol-driven cars, giving rise to breathing difficulties in vulnerable people, such as children and older citizens.

Since ships burn bunker oil, the dirtiest of fuels, that means not just more CO2 but also more "particulate matter", which, according to a controversial paper published in 2007, is already responsible each year for about 60,000 deaths from chest and lung diseases, including cancer.

According to a report by the energy consultancy E4tech, the small diesel-powered fridges on food trailers emit nearly 30 times more harmful particulate matter and six times more nitrogen oxides than the engine that powers the trucks.

"These kinds of heavy diesels emit more fine particulate matter than cars, trucks and power plants combined," Mr. Darrell said.

Exposure to air pollution and, more specifically, particulate matter (PM) is associated with adverse health effects.

A more specific particulate matter index, aerosol acidity, was measured at a site in central London, and daily data are available for the period 1963-1972.

At the same ambient particulate concentrations an adult and a child could inhale as much as 12 and 21 times more diesel particulate matter mass, respectively, in a single inhalation during a drive-by incident than at ambient conditions.