Air Analysis – Multimedia

It might feel like they’re making us cooler, but refrigerators and air conditioning are actually making our world warmer. In this episode of Untold, we consider how we might keep ourselves and our food cool, without accidentally warming up our world.

In this episode, the team discusses the growing movement for sustainable science. Research has a yeti-sized ecological footprint, and here we follow the tracks from ozone-destroying CFCs and energy-guzzling freezers through to a new future for science that promises to make labs eco-friendly at last.

A drop in nitrogen dioxide emissions correlated to the nationwide quarantine in China in January 2020. Two months later the emissions are increasing.

From car exhausts to building construction, from city-wide clouds of pollution to colossal power plants with billowing masses of smog, it can be easy to think of air pollution as something you leave outside when you walk indoors - but homes can have their own air quality issues.

Characterizing cumulative exposure to air pollutant mixtures is a critical step in understanding disease development. The Fresh Air wristband was tested as a personal exposure assessment tool with promising results.

A new generation of pollution monitors could help gather the evidence essential to tackle poor air quality.

The quality of the air we breathe is of concern to many, as are the negative impacts that pollutants can have on health in the short term and the lasting effects. Many of us have the potential to come into contact with air contaminants in our day to day lives, so it is vital that efficient monitoring measures are in place to keep us from harm.

Our project was to identify a geographic area demonstrating need for asthma interventions. By identifying different factors such as air quality, prevalence, asthma related hospitalizations and emergency department visits, we created a tool to identify and prioritize areas that could benefit from interventions like patient education and certification as an Asthma-Friendly School.

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) often present in adolescence and affect >1.4 million persons in the US. Environmental exposures, notably air pollution and weather, have been suggested to contribute to IBD disease activity. Our goal was to evaluate relationships between environmental exposures and the prevalence and disease activity of pediatric IBD using novel data sources that take into account geographic location.

The purity of lab water is critical to ensuring the success of your experiments. With this free guide, you can ensure that your water is fit for purpose.