Child exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollutants in schools in Barcelona, Spain.
Ioar Rivas,Mar Viana,Teresa Moreno,Marco Pandolfi,Fulvio Amato,Cristina Reche,Laura Bouso,Mar Alvarez-Pedrerol,Andrés Alastuey,Jordi Sunyer,Xavier Querol +10 more
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Indoor levels of these traffic-sourced pollutants are very similar to those detected outdoors, indicating easy penetration of atmospheric pollutants, and outdoor NO2, EBC, UFP, and antimony appear to be good indicators of traffic emissions.About:
This article is published in Environment International.The article was published on 2014-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 254 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Indoor air quality & Outdoor air quality.read more
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Changes in air quality during the lockdown in Barcelona (Spain) one month into the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic.
Aurelio Tobias,Cristina Carnerero,Cristina Reche,Jordi Massagué,Marta Via,María Cruz Minguillón,Andrés Alastuey,Xavier Querol +7 more
TL;DR: After two weeks of lockdown, urban air pollution markedly decreased but with substantial differences among pollutants, and there are still open questions on why PM10 levels were much less reduced than BC and NO2 and on what is the proportion of the abatement of pollution directly related to the lockdown, without meteorological interferences.
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Green spaces and cognitive development in primary schoolchildren
Payam Dadvand,Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen,Mikel Esnaola,Joan Forns,Xavier Basagaña,Mar Alvarez-Pedrerol,Ioar Rivas,Mónica López-Vicente,Montserrat De Castro Pascual,Jason Su,Michael Jerrett,Xavier Querol,Jordi Sunyer +12 more
TL;DR: An improvement in cognitive development associated with surrounding greenness, particularly with greenness at schools, was found among schoolchildren, partly mediated by reductions in air pollution.
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Potential of solar energy in developing countries for reducing energy-related emissions
Amir Shahsavari,Morteza Akbari +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the sources of energy-related emissions, risks of climate change, global solar energy potential, sustainability indicators of renewable energies, environmental impacts of fossil fuels and renewable energies and benefits of solar energy utilization.
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Association between Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Schools and Cognitive Development in Primary School Children: A Prospective Cohort Study
Jordi Sunyer,Mikel Esnaola,Mar Alvarez-Pedrerol,Joan Forns,Ioar Rivas,Mónica López-Vicente,Elisabet Suades-González,Maria Foraster,Racquel Garcia-Esteban,Xavier Basagaña,Mar Viana,Marta Cirach,Teresa Moreno,Andrés Alastuey,Núria Sebastián-Gallés,Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen,Xavier Querol +16 more
TL;DR: Cogently, children attending schools with higher levels of traffic-related air pollution both indoors and outdoors experienced substantially smaller growth in all the cognitive measurements, contradicting a potential residual confounding explanation.
Spatial variation of PM2.5, PM10, PM2.5 absorbance and PMcoarse concentrations between and within 20 European study areas and the relationship with NO2 - Results of the ESCAPE project
Marloes Eeftens,Ming-Yi Tsai,Christophe Ampe,Bernhard Anwander,Rob Beelen,Tom Bellander,Giulia Cesaroni,Marta Cirach,Josef Cyrys,Kees de Hoogh,Audrey de Nazelle,Frank de Vocht,Christophe Declercq,Audrius Dedele,Kirsten Thorup Eriksen,Claudia Galassi,Regina Grazuleviciene,Georgios Grivas,Joachim Heinrich,Barbara Hoffmann,Minas Iakovides,Alex Ineichen,Klea Katsouyanni,Michal Korek,Ursula Kraemer,Thomas A. J. Kuhlbusch,Timo Lanki,Christian Madsen,Kees Meliefste,Anna Moelter,Gioia Mosler,Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen,Marieke Oldenwening,Arto Pennanen,Nicole Probst-Hensch,Ulrich Quass,Ole Raaschou-Nielsen,Andrea Ranzi,Euripides G. Stephanou,Dorothee Sugiri,Orsolya Udvardy,Eva Vaskoevi,Gudrun Weinmayr,Bert Brunekreef,Gerard Hoek +44 more
TL;DR: The ESCAPE study as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution and health using cohort studies across Europe, and found substantial variability was found in spatial patterns of PM 2.5, PM2.5 absorbance, PM 10 and PM coarse.
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