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Air pollution removal and temperature reduction by Gainesville's urban forest
Poor air quality is a common problem in many urban areas. It can lead to human health problems and reduced visibility, and it can impair the health of plants and wildlife. The urban forest can help improve air quality by ...
Atmospheric Particulate Matter Variability during 2014 at Buenos Aires City (Argentina) Comparing Ground-Based Measurements and Satellite Data
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017-07)
Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health. In particular, exposure to high concentrations of small particulates (PM10 and PM2.5) is related to increased mortality and morbidity. In Argentina, only at Buenos ...
Specific indicator invertebrates of urbanized habitats in tributary streams of the Luján River basin (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
(EDP Sciences, 2021-06)
The increase of urbanized areas produces disturbances in rivers and streams, and its widespread effects reduce water quality and threaten aquatic biota. The aim of this study was to analyze changes in the invertebrate ...
COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on the air quality during the partial lockdown in São Paulo state, Brazil
In early March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic, and in late March
2020 partial lockdown was ordered by the São Paulo state government. The aim of this study was to assess impacts ...
Data science approach for urban monitoring network assessment with application in Buenos Aires
(Nova Science Publishers, 2021)
Low air quality is a public health problem with severe global repercussions. This work presents a data science approach for obtaining relevant information from an urban monitoring network assessment. The long-term concentration ...
Pollutant Time Series Analysis for Improving Air-Quality in Smart Cities
The evolution towards Smart Cities is the process that many urban centers are following in their quest for efficiency, resource optimization and sustainable growth. This step forward in the continuous improvement of cities ...
Evolution of air quality in Santiago: The role of mobility and lessons from the science-policy interface
(2018)
Worldwide, urbanization constitutes a major and growing driver of global change and a distinctive feature of the Anthropocene. Thus, urban development paths present opportunities for technological and societal transformations ...
Evolution of air quality in Santiago: The role of mobility and lessons from the science-policy interface
(2018)
Worldwide, urbanization constitutes a major and growing driver of global change and a distinctive feature of the Anthropocene. Thus, urban development paths present opportunities for technological and societal transformations ...
Changes in extrapulmonary organs and serum enzyme biomarkers after chronic exposure to Buenos Aires air pollution
(Springer Heidelberg, 2020-02-20)
Urban air pollution is a serious environmental problem in developing countries worldwide, and health is a pressing issue in the megacities in Latin America. Buenos Aires is a megacity with an estimated moderate Air Quality ...