Sentence examples for most polluted areas from inspiring English sources

Up to 9% of deaths in the capital's most polluted areas are down to air pollution, a new London Assembly paper has reported.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is difficult to identify the world's most polluted areas because many cities with high levels of air pollution do not have monitoring systems in place.

But Delhi's so-called "car-free day" experiment was nevertheless a success: scientists monitoring the air here, routinely one of Delhi's most polluted areas, found a dramatic 60% drop in the amount of dangerous pollutants – the tiniest particles that come out of traffic exhausts and which can exacerbate health problems such as asthma, heart disease and stroke – compared to the previous day.

This initial step-research at the island, with a focus on toxicity threats posed to wildlife in the area, may eventually lead to a spot in Superfund, the federal program designed to identify and clean up the country's most polluted areas.

We need a national network of clean air zones (CAZs) to take the most polluting vehicles out of the most polluted areas".

Furthermore, we did not have information on cycling, walking, and exercising habits of cohort participants, and possible behavioral adjustment by those living in areas of high air pollution levels to avoid the most polluted areas, which may bias results.

VILLAHERMOSA, MEXICO — Mexico's leading architects, planners and civil servants are working together in a long-overdue battle to clean up some of the country's most polluted urban areas.

Michael Leavitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, will announce today new standards aimed at reducing smog in the country's most polluted urban areas as well as its national parks.

Airborne concentrations of benzopyrene, a byproduct of coking that some studies have linked to lung cancer, were just below the level measured in two of the country's most polluted industrial areas, Lanzhou and Taiyuan, and 100 times the levels measured in London, the study said.

The higher amount of Pb in the most polluted sampling areas (near trafficked roads) is a direct consequence of anthropogenic contribution, since in 1999 Pb was still added into fuels as an additive agent.

Bart Croes, chief of the Research Division at the California Air Resources Board, says this new research shows that California, home of three of the four most polluted U.S. areas, could suffer 300 deaths per 1°C rise for every 700 in the rest of the country—a notable number given its 12% share of the population.