Assessment of heavy metal contamination levels and health risks in environmental media in the northeast region

Y Cui, L Bai, C Li, Z He, X Liu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Rapid development in Northeast China has brought serious heavy metal pollution
to the environmental media (soil, surface water and air). This paper presents a study on the …

[HTML][HTML] Current state of indoor air phytoremediation using potted plants and green walls

S Bandehali, T Miri, H Onyeaka, P Kumar - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
Urban civilization has a high impact on the environment and human health. The pollution
level of indoor air can be 2–5 times higher than the outdoor air pollution, and sometimes it …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal reactive nitrogen control pathways identified for cost-effective PM2.5 mitigation in Europe

Z Liu, HE Rieder, C Schmidt, M Mayer, Y Guo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Excess reactive nitrogen (Nr), including nitrogen oxides (NOx) and ammonia (NH3),
contributes strongly to fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) air pollution in Europe, posing …

[HTML][HTML] Indoor particulate matter in urban households: sources, pathways, characteristics, health effects, and exposure mitigation

L Zhang, C Ou, D Magana-Arachchi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Particulate matter (PM) is a complex mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets suspended
in the air with varying size, shape, and chemical composition which intensifies significant …

[HTML][HTML] Indoor air quality in public utility environments—A review

M Śmiełowska, M Marć, B Zabiegała - Environmental Science and …, 2017 - Springer
Indoor air quality has been the object of interest for scientists and specialists from the fields
of science such as chemistry, medicine and ventilation system design. This results from a …

Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in atmospheric PM1. 0 of urban environments: Carcinogenic and mutagenic respiratory health risk by age groups

DM Agudelo-Castañeda, EC Teixeira, IL Schneider… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
We investigated the carcinogenic and mutagenic respiratory health risks related to the
exposure to atmospheric PAHs in an urban area. Our study focused in the association of …

Are we safe inside? Indoor air quality in relation to outdoor concentration of PM10 and PM2. 5 and to characteristics of homes

M Ścibor, B Balcerzak, A Galbarczyk, N Targosz… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigates the relationship between concentrations of particulate matter (PM 10
and PM 2.5) outdoors and indoors, and evaluates the significance of various factors which …

A review of critical residential buildings parameters and activities when investigating indoor air quality and pollutants

MT Baeza_Romero, MR Dudzinska… - Indoor …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Indoor air in residential dwellings can contain a variety of chemicals, sometimes present at
concentrations or in combinations which can have a negative impact on human health …

Indoor air quality in Urban India: current status, research gap, and the way forward

AK Thakur, S Patel - Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Given that people spend most of their time indoors in developed nations, personal exposure
occurring in indoor spaces dominates cumulative exposure. Therefore, the total mortality …

Forecasting concentrations of air pollutants using support vector regression improved with particle swarm optimization: Case study in Aburrá Valley, Colombia

J Murillo-Escobar, JP Sepulveda-Suescun, MA Correa… - Urban Climate, 2019 - Elsevier
Air pollution is one of the most important risk factors for human health, exposure to PM 2.5 is
an important cause of death from cardiorespiratory conditions, in Aburrá Valley, an average …